Silicon Valley Edge: A Habitat for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

What accounts for Silicon Valley's leading edge in innovation and entrepreneurship? This book gives an answer by insiders, by prominent business leaders and academics from the heart of the Valley. They argue that what distinguishes the Valley is not its scientific advances or technological breakthroughs. Instead, its edge derives from a complex "habitat" or environment that is tuned to turn ideas into products and take them rapidly to market by creating new firms.