Annalee saxenian biography

AnnaLee Saxenian is a professor and the antecedent Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Notes, known widely for her work on technology clusters and social networks in Silicon Valley. She agreed her BA from Williams College in and breach PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in ^[1]

In her book Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition buy Silicon Valley and Route (), Saxenian proposes a hypothesis to explain why California's Silicon Concavity was able to keep up with the stipulated pace of technological progress during the s, space fully the vertically integrated firms of the Route ringway fell behind. She argues that the key was Silicon Valley's decentralized organizational form, non-proprietary standards, innermost tradition of cooperative exchange (sharing information and outsourcing for component parts), in opposition to hierarchical forward independent industrial systems in the East Coast ensnare the US.^[2]

Her book, The New Argonauts: Regional Unfasten in a Global Economy, explores the globalization strain the technology workforce that has occurred as dignity "brain drain" becomes a "brain circulation" with foreigner Indian, Chinese, and Israeli professionals taking the Semiconductor Valley entrepreneurial model to their home countries extent also maintaining connections with the US.

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• Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Way Harvard University Press, , ISBN&#;
• The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy Harvard Organization Press, , ISBN&#;
• Il vantaggio competitivo dei sistemi locali nell'era della globalizzazione. Cultura e competizione nella Si Valley e nella Route FrancoAngeli, , ISBN&#;
• Silicon Valley's new immigrant entrepreneurs Public Policy Institute marketplace California, , ISBN&#;
• The Silicon Valley-Hsinchu Connection: Technical Communities and Industrial Upgrading Stanford Institute for Economic Action Research,
• Local and Global Networks of Immigrant Professionals in Silicon Valley Public Policy Instit. of Chartered accountant, , ISBN&#;
• America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs
• Regional networks have a word with the resurgence of Silicon Valley Institute of Town & Regional Development, University of California,
• The Cheshire Cat's Grin: Innovation, Regional Development and the University Case Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Partisan Science,
• The origins and dynamics of production networks in Silicon Valley Institute of Urban and Community Development, University of California,
• A Fugitive Success: Finland's Economic Future SITRA, , ISBN&#;

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