Electronics and the geography of innovation in post‐war America

This study looks at three important centres of post‐war American electronics research and manufacturing ‐ the Princeton corridor in New Jersey, Dallas, Texas, and Silicon Valley ‐ as a way of understanding shifting patterns of regional competitiveness. We consider each of these technoregions not as models but rather as ecologies of mutually dependent institutions, corporate, academic, and governmental. We were especially intrigued by the attempts of the New Jersey and Dallas regions to learn from and emulate what each perceived to be the lessons of Silicon Valley. In both cases, corporate consortia hired Frederick Terman, the Stanford University electrical engineer and provost acknowledged as “the father of Silicon Valley”, to teach them the secrets of high technology development We examine these efforts and their subsequent failure, which we attribute to some fundamental misinterpretations of the Silicon Valley experience. We conclude with some reflections on a new pattern of regional development, a clustering of multinational research laboratories (many of them foreign‐based) around specific technologies such as high‐definition television, that may be emerging in the Princeton corridor

Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Electrical engineering · Electronics · Emerging technologies · Geography · Management · Multinational corporation · Political science · Regional science · Silicon valley · Sociology · Computer Science · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · Engineering · History of Computing Technologies · Law · Twentieth Century Scientific Developments

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