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Hardcover Understanding Silicon Valley: The Anatomy of an Entrepreneurial Region Book

ISBN: 0804737339

ISBN13: 9780804737333

Understanding Silicon Valley: The Anatomy of an Entrepreneurial Region

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What has made Silicon Valley so productive of new technologies and new firms? How did its pioneering achievements begin--in computer networking, semiconductors, personal computing, and the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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A "Must Have" for anyone interested in Silicon Valley History

One of the elements of a successful technical history is how often you refer back to it. Since this a compilation of essays by a series of authors each writing a chapter the quality varies. However it's worth buying just for the essays about the Military History of the Valley by Stuart Leslie and the Origins of Production Networks by AnnaLee Saxenian.

perfect book for the new Silicon valley residents!

At the center of all questions about the Valley lies the matter of innovation-for the Valley occasionally appears like a perpetual innovation machine. I say "innovation" rather than simply "invention," because innovation, to me, means invention implemented. And I have grudgingly come to realize that invention is often the easy part of innovation. The hard part is usually the implementation. Here I was particularly interested in Stuart Leslie's well-chosen quotation from a letter of Frederick Terman. Terman was the Stanford University dean who played godfather to Hewlett Packard and so many other early start-ups in the Valley. When he left the university to work on radar during World War II, he wrote back to a colleague at Stanford, "I had never before realized the amount of work required to make a device ready for manufacture after one had a good working model." It was a lesson he clearly learned well as he guided young Stanford graduates to innovative success.
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