About this title: 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 centres 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 ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 4-30-06
ISBN-13:9780674022010ISBN:0674022017
Description: FINE. Crisp, clean and unread hardcover with light shelfwear to the dust jacket, remainder mark to one edge-VERY NICE! ! ! 1.14 lbs. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Date Published: 2007-10-15
ISBN-13:9780674025660ISBN:0674025660
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780674025660. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780674025660ISBN:0674025660
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 432 pages. Tells the story of the foreign-born, technically skilled investors and entrepreneurs who return home to start new companies while remaining tied to powerful economic and professional communities in the united states. 1 halftone, 5 line illustrations, 1 table (Paperback) read more
Edition: Annotated.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780674022010ISBN:0674022017
Description: New in new dust jacket. Small tear to front of jacket. Rubbing to jacket. New. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 424 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: (2006 edition)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780674022010ISBN:0674022017
Description: Octavo in 1/4 cloth with DJ. VG+/VG+. DJ has light shelf and edge wear. Book is 424pp. DJ spine is dark purple with yellow text. Economics. 7-25-1148674. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780674025660ISBN:0674025660
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780674025660ISBN:0674025660
Description: 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 b... read more
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"OK, I am not impartial on this one. I am CEO of Alibris, meaning that if you buy this book, I make money. This is however, true of ANY book you buy here -- and we appreciate it a lot.
And in this case, I am married to the author -- so I make even more money (unless you buy it used, which I encourage you to do).
With the financial disclosures out of the way however, let me plug the book. It's a great story that has not been well told before.
The world is seeing something unique in its history: 40% of earth's population, aka China and India, are pulling themselves out of poverty at an astonishing rate (OK, India is just getting started, China has been at it for 15 years or so). A lot of factors account for this: functioning markets, property rights, domestic savings rates, global markets (to buy all their stuff), public services, etc.
But one of the key elements is know-how. Some of this is technical, some financial, some managerial. Where are Chinese and Indians getting the know-how to grow their economies greater than 10%/year? From us!
This is the story of how graduate students educated in the US stayed here to work, joined technology startups, learned the Silicon Valley system and took this knowledge home to help transform their home economies. The work is based on a decade of real research -- Anno knows roughly every Chinese and Indian entrepreneur in Silicon Valley -- a very large group.They tell their story in this book.
It is an important story and remarkably well told. If you care about technology-led growth and the world economy, give it a read.
And you don't have to take my biased word for it. Jeff Sachs, who directs the Earth Institute at Columbia and advises governments round the world, notes that "AnnaLee Saxenian has long been the leading observer of Silicon Valley's 'entrepreneurial ecosystem.' ... This book is essential reading for all who want to understand how the global economy works in the 21st century"."
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