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 Internet—and what forces have propelled its unprecedented growth? This collection of nine chapters by...

Examines the regional dimensions of the venture capital industry. First providing an overview of the venture capital industry and an analysis of the empirical literature, regional characteristics of the industry are then presented - focusing especially on California, New York, Boston, and...

The current understanding of platform expansion is based upon the experience of US West Coast firms. China, with its largely protected but enormous internal market, provides an ideal “experiment” for examining how platform business models might develop different evolutionary trajectories in...