Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION -- PROLOGUE -- INTRODUCTION: LOCAL INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS -- 1 GENESIS: UNIVERSITIES, MILITARY SPENDING, AND ENTREPRENEURS -- 2 SILICON VALLEY: COMPETITION AND COMMUNITY -- 3 ROUTE 128: INDEPENDENCE AND HIERARCHY -- 4 BETTING ON A PRODUCT...

By 2000, over one-third of Silicon Valley’s high-skilled workers were foreign-born, and overwhelmingly from Asia. These US-educated engineers are transforming developmental opportunities for formerly peripheral regions as they build professional and business connections to their home...

This article examines the economic contributions of skilled Asian immigrants in Silicon Valley—both directly, as entrepreneurs, and indirectly, as facilitators of trade with and investment in their countries of origin. Skilled immigrants account for one third of the region’s...