High-Technology Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley

Making the Macintosh: Technology and Culture in Silicon Valley

Job-Hopping in Silicon Valley: Some Evidence Concerning the Micro-Foundations of a High Technology Cluster

Job-Hopping in Silicon Valley: Some Evidence Concerning the Micro-Foundations of a High Technology Cluster In Silicon Valley’s computer cluster, skilled employees are reported to move rapidly between competing firms. This job-hopping facilitates the reallocation of resources towards firms with superior innovations, but it also creates human capital externalities that reduce incentives to invest...

The Coevolution of Technologies and Institutions: Silicon Valley as the Iconic High-Technology Cluster

In the 1990s Silicon Valley achieved iconic status for economic development planners globally. But how did Silicon Valley come into being? We demonstrate that its rise was a social process of bricolage in which actor’s fashioned solutions for various problems that they confronted with what they found at hand (Garud and Karnoe 2003 AQ1 ). Frequently, these solutions were adapted from existing fo...

View from Silicon Valley: Maximizing the Scientific Impact of Global Brain Initiatives through Entrepreneurship

In this era of technology-driven global neuroscience initiatives, the role of the neurotechnology industry remains woefully ambiguous. Here, we explain why industry is essential to the success of these global initiatives, and how it can maximize the scientific impact of these efforts by (1) scaling and ultimately democratizing access to breakthrough neurotechnologies, and (2) commercializing te...

Entrepreneurship in High Technology Networks: a Framework for Entrepreneurial Learning

Science parks provide an environmental setting for private venture development in the close proximity of universities and can be seen as an environment enabling private and public research units to collaborate. Science parks are assumed to be first and foremost knowledge catalysts aiming at high technology and knowledge intensive venture development through shared knowledge creation between uni...