The Ledger, every show
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Saxenian: Top-down Silicon Valley clones fail due to isolated institutions
“Most places that have tried to create the next Silicon Valley have not succeeded largely because they focus on specific institutions in isolation without understanding that one of the most important dynamics is the opening of boundaries Between firms and finan…”
Saxenian: Every innovative tech cluster begins with imitation and improvisation
“Every industrial region, every innovative cluster that we've seen has started, you know, from imitation and improvisation.”
Saxenian: Public sector must support entrepreneurs as co-equals, not top-down planners
“I think that the ideal role for a public sector or even for a university or other institution in a region that's trying to be innovative is to talk to the people who are innovating and say, what's, what are the obstacles and what can we do to help support you?…”
Saxenian: Israel's tech ecosystem was built on decades of military funding
“In Israel, they've been able to tap a lot of the military technology that has been funded for decades.”
Saxenian: India's tech industry bootstrapped from low-end IT outsourcing
“In India entrepreneurs have been able to sort of bootstrap from low end body shopping, sort of software programming into larger scale software development.”
Saxenian: Iran's educated workforce and diaspora position its tech ecosystem well
“Iran has an incredibly highly educated population. Of course, it has been cut off in all sorts of ways, and there's also a huge, very successful Iranian diaspora, which I suspect will I know in Silicon Valley they've been dying to contribute back, so Iran is v…”