Annalee Saxenian
Biographic Data
| ID | 302274 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annalee Saxenian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annalee |
| FAMILY NAME | Saxenian |
| SIGNATURE | SAXENIAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 617 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Rethinking Antitrust for the Cloud Era
This article asks how antitrust can foster innovation by examining the development of infrastructure for data processing in the cloud. We contrast Amazon Web Services' centralized model with Google Cloud Platform's more decentralized, participatory ecosystem. We argue that rather than trying to reduce the power imbalance between platforms and independent database companies, antitrust should seek to channel platforms from the centralized model tow…
Inside-Out: Regional Networks and Industrial Adaptation in Silicon Valley and Route 128
The competitive advantages of regional clusters have become a focal point of scholarly and policy attention. This chapter compares California&s;s Silicon Valley with the Route 128 beltway around Boston, Massachusetts, to suggest the limits of the concept of external economies and to propose an alternative network approach to analyzing regional economies. The common notion of external economies is based on an assumption that the firm is an atomist…
The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies: Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles
This book forum reports an outcome of the authors-meet-the-critics session organized for the 2016 American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, which took place coincidentally but appropriately, in San Francisco
Book Views: Edited by PÄIVI Oinas
Why write books? For two good reasons: first, because you enjoy writing; second, because you have something you want to say. In my case, I discovered that I liked to write at the age of six, when I
"Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography Venture Capital in the "Periphery: The New Argonauts, Global Search, and Local Institution Building
This article examines the growing importance of global, or external, search networks that firms and other actors rely on to locate collaborators who can solve part of a problem they face or require part of a solution they may be able provide. We focus on the creation in emerging economies of venture capital-an institution that is organized to search systematically for, and foster the development of, firms and industries that can, in turn, collabo…
The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy
The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy
Coevolution and coordination: A systemic analysis of the Taiwanese information technology industry
Journal Article Coevolution and coordination: a systemic analysis of the Taiwanese information technology industry Get access Chuan-Kai Lee, Chuan-Kai Lee **Institute of Technology Management, College of Technology Management, National Tsing-Hua University 101, Sec. 2, Kuang-Fu Rd., Hsinchu 300, Taiwan. email Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Annalee Saxenian Annalee Saxenian ****iSchool, University of Calif…
From Brain Drain to Brain Circulation: Transnational Communities and Regional Upgrading in India and China
Brain Circulation: How High-Skill Immigration Makes Everyone Better Off
Silicon Valley’s New Immigrant High-Growth Entrepreneurs
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 engineering workforce and are increasingly visible as entrepreneurs and investors. Two thirds of the region’s foreign-born engineers were from Asia. Chinese and Indian immigr…
The Silicon Valley Connection: Transnational Networks and Regional Development in Taiwan, China and India
This paper analyses the business ties that Silicon Valley-based Indian technologists are building with the IT industry in their home country through a comparison with their Chinese counterparts, of both Taiwanese and mainland origin. In each of these cases the growth of cross-border technical communities is transforming the brain drain into 'brain circulation' , and providing a more flexible and responsive mechanism for promoting transfers of tec…
The Silicon Valley-Hsinchu Connection: Technical Communities and Industrial Upgrading
Silicon Valley in California and the Hsinchu‐Taipei region of Taiwan are among the most frequently cited ‘miracles’ of the information technology era. The dominant accounts of these successes treat them in isolation, focusing either on free markets, multinationals or the role of the state. This paper argues that the dynamism of these regional economies is attributable to their increasing interdependencies. A community of US‐educated Taiwanese eng…
The Limits of Guanxi Capitalism: Transnational Collaboration between Taiwan and the USA
In this research we explore the relationship between high-technology regional development and ethnic networks in the connection between Silicon Valley, California and Hsinchu, Taiwan. We elaborate the argument that regional industrial structure and embedded social networks, rather than the multinational firm, should be the focus in the study of transnational business. The complementary regional industrial structures allow economic and technologic…
Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128, With a New Preface by the Author
Contrasting Patterns of Business Organization in Silicon Valley
The industrialists of Silicon Valley have pioneered two divergent political strategies in recent decades: one is an attempt to improve the competitive position of local firms by lobbying for supportive trade and technology policies, the other is an attempt to enhance the flexibility of the specialist producers in the region by providing collective services that promote the innovative recombination of resources. These contrasting patterns of organ…
Regional Networks and the Resurgence of Silicon Valley
When Japanese competition forced the U.S. semiconductor industry into crisis during the mid-1980s, most observers predicted the demise of Silicon Valley. Yet the region9s economy is once again flourishing. By building on the dense networks of social relationships which were created and then abandoned by the established semiconductor firms, a new wave of semiconductor start-ups is creating a new Silicon Valley—one which fosters reciprocal innovati…
The Cheshire cat's grin: Innovation, regional development and the Cambridge case
The prevailing approach to high-tech regions locates the determinants of growth in attributes of the regional environment. The case of Cambridge, England is used to illustrate the weaknesses of this approach and to highlight the importance of the broader political and economic context. In Britain, the institutional legacies of a century of industrial decline and a pattern of clientelistic relations between the state and the big electronics firms …
In search of power: The organization of business interests in Silicon Valley and Route 128
The entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley and Route 128 - America’s leading centers of technological innovation - organized politically in the late 1970s. This paper seeks to explain why high tech business associations in these two regions have adopted widely divergent political stances and behavior. It argues that business interests are defined through the process of organization, and that the attitudes of these groups of industrialists were shaped by…
The urban contradictions of Silicon Valley: Regional Growth and the Restructuring of the Semiconductor Industry
If small is beautiful, that mandate is fulfilled not chiefly in windmills and solar cells, but in California's vale of cubistic new factories across the bay from San Francisco - Santa Clara's Silicon Valley, where worlds indeed unfold in grains of sand
Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128, With a New Preface by the Author
The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy
From Brain Drain to Brain Circulation: Transnational Communities and Regional Upgrading in India and China
The Limits of Guanxi Capitalism: Transnational Collaboration between Taiwan and the USA
In this research we explore the relationship between high-technology regional development and ethnic networks in the connection between Silicon Valley, California and Hsinchu, Taiwan. We elaborate the argument that regional industrial structure and embedded social networks, rather than the multinational firm, should be the focus in the study of transnational business. The complementary regional industrial structures allow economic and technologic…
The urban contradictions of Silicon Valley: Regional Growth and the Restructuring of the Semiconductor Industry
If small is beautiful, that mandate is fulfilled not chiefly in windmills and solar cells, but in California's vale of cubistic new factories across the bay from San Francisco - Santa Clara's Silicon Valley, where worlds indeed unfold in grains of sand
The Cheshire cat's grin: Innovation, regional development and the Cambridge case
The prevailing approach to high-tech regions locates the determinants of growth in attributes of the regional environment. The case of Cambridge, England is used to illustrate the weaknesses of this approach and to highlight the importance of the broader political and economic context. In Britain, the institutional legacies of a century of industrial decline and a pattern of clientelistic relations between the state and the big electronics firms …
In search of power: The organization of business interests in Silicon Valley and Route 128
The entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley and Route 128 - America’s leading centers of technological innovation - organized politically in the late 1970s. This paper seeks to explain why high tech business associations in these two regions have adopted widely divergent political stances and behavior. It argues that business interests are defined through the process of organization, and that the attitudes of these groups of industrialists were shaped by…
"Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography Venture Capital in the "Periphery: The New Argonauts, Global Search, and Local Institution Building
This article examines the growing importance of global, or external, search networks that firms and other actors rely on to locate collaborators who can solve part of a problem they face or require part of a solution they may be able provide. We focus on the creation in emerging economies of venture capital-an institution that is organized to search systematically for, and foster the development of, firms and industries that can, in turn, collabo…
Contrasting Patterns of Business Organization in Silicon Valley
The industrialists of Silicon Valley have pioneered two divergent political strategies in recent decades: one is an attempt to improve the competitive position of local firms by lobbying for supportive trade and technology policies, the other is an attempt to enhance the flexibility of the specialist producers in the region by providing collective services that promote the innovative recombination of resources. These contrasting patterns of organ…
The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy
Coevolution and coordination: A systemic analysis of the Taiwanese information technology industry
Journal Article Coevolution and coordination: a systemic analysis of the Taiwanese information technology industry Get access Chuan-Kai Lee, Chuan-Kai Lee **Institute of Technology Management, College of Technology Management, National Tsing-Hua University 101, Sec. 2, Kuang-Fu Rd., Hsinchu 300, Taiwan. email Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Annalee Saxenian Annalee Saxenian ****iSchool, University of Calif…
Book Views: Edited by PÄIVI Oinas
Why write books? For two good reasons: first, because you enjoy writing; second, because you have something you want to say. In my case, I discovered that I liked to write at the age of six, when I
The urban contradictions of Silicon Valley: Regional Growth and the Restructuring of the Semiconductor Industry
If small is beautiful, that mandate is fulfilled not chiefly in windmills and solar cells, but in California's vale of cubistic new factories across the bay from San Francisco - Santa Clara's Silicon Valley, where worlds indeed unfold in grains of sand
The Cheshire cat's grin: Innovation, regional development and the Cambridge case
The prevailing approach to high-tech regions locates the determinants of growth in attributes of the regional environment. The case of Cambridge, England is used to illustrate the weaknesses of this approach and to highlight the importance of the broader political and economic context. In Britain, the institutional legacies of a century of industrial decline and a pattern of clientelistic relations between the state and the big electronics firms …
In search of power: The organization of business interests in Silicon Valley and Route 128
The entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley and Route 128 - America’s leading centers of technological innovation - organized politically in the late 1970s. This paper seeks to explain why high tech business associations in these two regions have adopted widely divergent political stances and behavior. It argues that business interests are defined through the process of organization, and that the attitudes of these groups of industrialists were shaped by…
Regional Networks and the Resurgence of Silicon Valley
When Japanese competition forced the U.S. semiconductor industry into crisis during the mid-1980s, most observers predicted the demise of Silicon Valley. Yet the region9s economy is once again flourishing. By building on the dense networks of social relationships which were created and then abandoned by the established semiconductor firms, a new wave of semiconductor start-ups is creating a new Silicon Valley—one which fosters reciprocal innovati…
Contrasting Patterns of Business Organization in Silicon Valley
The industrialists of Silicon Valley have pioneered two divergent political strategies in recent decades: one is an attempt to improve the competitive position of local firms by lobbying for supportive trade and technology policies, the other is an attempt to enhance the flexibility of the specialist producers in the region by providing collective services that promote the innovative recombination of resources. These contrasting patterns of organ…
Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128, With a New Preface by the Author
The Limits of Guanxi Capitalism: Transnational Collaboration between Taiwan and the USA
In this research we explore the relationship between high-technology regional development and ethnic networks in the connection between Silicon Valley, California and Hsinchu, Taiwan. We elaborate the argument that regional industrial structure and embedded social networks, rather than the multinational firm, should be the focus in the study of transnational business. The complementary regional industrial structures allow economic and technologic…
The Silicon Valley-Hsinchu Connection: Technical Communities and Industrial Upgrading
Silicon Valley in California and the Hsinchu‐Taipei region of Taiwan are among the most frequently cited ‘miracles’ of the information technology era. The dominant accounts of these successes treat them in isolation, focusing either on free markets, multinationals or the role of the state. This paper argues that the dynamism of these regional economies is attributable to their increasing interdependencies. A community of US‐educated Taiwanese eng…
Brain Circulation: How High-Skill Immigration Makes Everyone Better Off
Silicon Valley’s New Immigrant High-Growth Entrepreneurs
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 engineering workforce and are increasingly visible as entrepreneurs and investors. Two thirds of the region’s foreign-born engineers were from Asia. Chinese and Indian immigr…
The Silicon Valley Connection: Transnational Networks and Regional Development in Taiwan, China and India
This paper analyses the business ties that Silicon Valley-based Indian technologists are building with the IT industry in their home country through a comparison with their Chinese counterparts, of both Taiwanese and mainland origin. In each of these cases the growth of cross-border technical communities is transforming the brain drain into 'brain circulation' , and providing a more flexible and responsive mechanism for promoting transfers of tec…
From Brain Drain to Brain Circulation: Transnational Communities and Regional Upgrading in India and China
The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy
Coevolution and coordination: A systemic analysis of the Taiwanese information technology industry
Journal Article Coevolution and coordination: a systemic analysis of the Taiwanese information technology industry Get access Chuan-Kai Lee, Chuan-Kai Lee **Institute of Technology Management, College of Technology Management, National Tsing-Hua University 101, Sec. 2, Kuang-Fu Rd., Hsinchu 300, Taiwan. email Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Annalee Saxenian Annalee Saxenian ****iSchool, University of Calif…
"Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography Venture Capital in the "Periphery: The New Argonauts, Global Search, and Local Institution Building
This article examines the growing importance of global, or external, search networks that firms and other actors rely on to locate collaborators who can solve part of a problem they face or require part of a solution they may be able provide. We focus on the creation in emerging economies of venture capital-an institution that is organized to search systematically for, and foster the development of, firms and industries that can, in turn, collabo…
The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy
Book Views: Edited by PÄIVI Oinas
Why write books? For two good reasons: first, because you enjoy writing; second, because you have something you want to say. In my case, I discovered that I liked to write at the age of six, when I
The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies: Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles
This book forum reports an outcome of the authors-meet-the-critics session organized for the 2016 American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, which took place coincidentally but appropriately, in San Francisco
Inside-Out: Regional Networks and Industrial Adaptation in Silicon Valley and Route 128
The competitive advantages of regional clusters have become a focal point of scholarly and policy attention. This chapter compares California&s;s Silicon Valley with the Route 128 beltway around Boston, Massachusetts, to suggest the limits of the concept of external economies and to propose an alternative network approach to analyzing regional economies. The common notion of external economies is based on an assumption that the firm is an atomist…
Rethinking Antitrust for the Cloud Era
This article asks how antitrust can foster innovation by examining the development of infrastructure for data processing in the cloud. We contrast Amazon Web Services' centralized model with Google Cloud Platform's more decentralized, participatory ecosystem. We argue that rather than trying to reduce the power imbalance between platforms and independent database companies, antitrust should seek to channel platforms from the centralized model tow…
Economics (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Business (12 works) · Economic geography (10 works) · Silicon valley (10 works) · Geography (8 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Economy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)