The New Argonauts
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The New Argonauts

Regional Advantage in a Global Economy

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The New Argonauts

Regional Advantage in a Global Economy

About this book

Like the Greeks who sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece, the new Argonauts--foreign-born, technically skilled entrepreneurs who travel back and forth between Silicon Valley and their home countries--seek their fortune in distant lands by launching companies far from established centers of skill and technology. Their story illuminates profound transformations in the global economy.

Economic geographer AnnaLee Saxenian has followed this transformation, exploring one of its great paradoxes: how the "brain drain" has become "brain circulation," a powerful economic force for development of formerly peripheral regions. The new Argonauts--armed with Silicon Valley experience and relationships and the ability to operate in two countries simultaneously--quickly identify market opportunities, locate foreign partners, and manage cross-border business operations.

The New Argonauts extends Saxenian's pioneering research into the dynamics of competition in Silicon Valley. The book brings a fresh perspective to the way that technology entrepreneurs build regional advantage in order to compete in global markets. Scholars, policymakers, and business leaders will benefit from Saxenian's firsthand research into the investors and entrepreneurs who return home to start new companies while remaining tied to powerful economic and professional communities in the United States.

For Americans accustomed to unchallenged economic domination, the fast-growing capabilities of China and India may seem threatening. But as Saxenian convincingly displays in this pathbreaking book, the Argonauts have made America richer, not poorer.

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Just
as
the
social
structures
and
institutions
within
these
regions
en-
courage
entrepreneurial
bootstrapping,
so
the
creation
of
a
cross-re-
gional
technical
community
facilitates
collaborations
with
producers
in
distant
regions
and
a
process
of
reciprocal
industrial
upgrading.
The
recent
successes
described
here—the
experiences
of
Israel,
Taiwan,
China,
and
India—suggest
that
new
centers
of
technology
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entrepreneurship
cannot
be
created
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isolation.
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they
re-
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ongoing
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to
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Silicon
Valley’s
technical
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an
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1. Surprising Success
  8. Chapter 2. Learning the Silicon Valley System
  9. Chapter 3. Creating Cross-Regional Communities
  10. Chapter 4. Taiwan as Silicon Sibling
  11. Chapter 5. Taiwan as Partner and Parent
  12. Chapter 6. Manufacturing in Mainland China
  13. Chapter 7. IT Enclaves in India
  14. Chapter 8. The Argonaut Advantage
  15. Appendix A. Immigrant Professional and NetworkingAssociations, Silicon Valley
  16. Appendix B. Survey Results: Immigrant Professionalsin Silicon Valley
  17. Notes
  18. References
  19. Abbreviations
  20. Acknowledgments
  21. Index