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049 _aMAIN
100 1 _aO'Mara, Margaret Pugh,
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245 1 0 _aCities of knowledge :
_bCold War science and the search for the next Silicon Valley /
_cMargaret Pugh O'Mara.
260 _aPrinceton, N.J. :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c(c)2005.
300 _a1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages) :
_billustrations.
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aPolitics and society in twentieth-century America
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505 0 0 _aCold War politics --
_t"Multiversities," cities, and suburbs --
_tFrom the farm to the valley : Stanford University and the San Francisco peninsula --
_tBuilding "Brainsville" : the University of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia --
_tSelling the new South : Georgia Tech and Atlanta --
_tConclusion : the next Silicon Valley.
520 0 _aWhat is the magic formula for turning a place into a high-tech capital? How can a city or region become a high-tech powerhouse like Silicon Valley? For over half a century, through boom times and bust, business leaders and politicians have tried to become ""the next Silicon Valley,"" but few have succeeded. This book examines why high-tech development became so economically important late in the twentieth century, and why its magic formula of people, jobs, capital, and institutions has been so difficult to replicate. Margaret O'Mara shows that high-tech regions are not simply accidental marke.
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650 0 _aResearch institutes
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_zUnited States.
650 0 _aResearch parks
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_zUnited States.
650 0 _aResearch, Industrial
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650 4 _aResearch institutes.
650 4 _aResearch parks.
650 4 _aResearch, Industrial.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
856 4 0 _uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=936710&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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_dCynthia Snell