...This chapter dissects San José/Silicon Valley metropolitan area. It notes that the immigrant population here has grown even more rapidly than in any other case in the book, but the region nonetheless offers a welcoming atmosphere and has taken important public and philanthropic steps to spur...

... ability to act as a driver of innovation, employment and economic growth. The chapter defines the categories by which public policymakers have supported VC as: regulation, taxation and funding, and depicts the Silicon Valley model as well as subsequent policy innovations by Israel and Taiwan. Boulevard...

...Chapter One introduces the study’s area of investigation: the diffusion of the Silicon Valley venture capital (VC) policy model. It presents the global policy diffusion trend by introducing the findings of the study’s dataset of forty-five countries’ VC policy choices. After presenting the core...

... of the former Soviet Union, emerging in seemingly disparate settings like post-Soviet Russia and Silicon Valley....