Publisher's Synopsis
Technology promises to produce vast wealth, generate the most desirable kinds of jobs, and is the linchpin of any post-industrial economy. Indeed, it's impossible to conceive of a wealthy, modern economy today without a significant high tech sector. Which is why virtually every developed country in the world today - and not a few under-developed ones - aspires to build its own high tech industry using California's Silicon Valley as its model. But creating a technology economy - one where indigenous entrepreneurs and companies are developing, producing and marketing their own products - is a difficult and delicate undertaking. High tech is less an industry than a culture, and one that thrives in concentrations where venture capital, entrepreneurs and talented personnel can work closely together. By one count there are more than 75 such Silicon Valley clones, ranging from Silicon Fen (Cambridge) to Silicon Island (Taiwan), most of them conscious efforts to imitate California's.
