Silicon Valley Stories

Thierry Weil (1)

1 CERNA i3 - Centre d'économie industrielle i3

Many countries try to promote the emergence of technological clusters and ecosystems for growth, counting on the synergies between companies of varying sizes and academic research. Most look to Silicon Valley as the mythical role model. It is therefore worth trying to understand what caused this region's exceptional development. Although abundant literature exists on the subject, it suggests a wide range of explanations. We propose to examine these accounts while trying to avoid boiling down a century of co-evolution in technologies, institutions, professional communities and markets into a few simplistic recipes that will result in inefficient state policies.

Domaines: Economies et finances

Thierry Weil. Silicon Valley Stories. 2009. ⟨hal-00488200⟩