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Cities of knowledge : Cold War science and the search for the next Silicon Valley /

What is the magic formula for turning a place into a high-tech capital? How can a city or region become a high-tech powerhouse like Silicon Valley? For over half a century, through boom times and bust, business leaders and politicians have tried to become ""the next Silicon Valley, "&...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Mara, Margaret Pugh, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2005]
Colección:Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:What is the magic formula for turning a place into a high-tech capital? How can a city or region become a high-tech powerhouse like Silicon Valley? For over half a century, through boom times and bust, business leaders and politicians have tried to become ""the next Silicon Valley, "" but few have succeeded. This book examines why high-tech development became so economically important late in the twentieth century, and why its magic formula of people, jobs, capital, and institutions has been so difficult to replicate. Margaret O'Mara shows that high-tech regions are not simply accidental marke
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-290) and index.
ISBN:9781400866885
140086688X
0691166676
9780691166674