Rethinking Silicon Valley: New Perspectives on Regional Development

摘要

Silicon Valley in Southern California has, over the past 30 years, become a model for high technology development in many parts of the world. Associated with Silicon Valley is a common rhetoric and mythology that explains the origins of this area of high technology agglomeration and indeed the business and entrepreneurial attributes needed for success. Governments in many parts of the world (including Southeast Asia and Australia) have tried To emulate this growth through various industry and regional development mechanisms, in Particular, the science or technology park.