Regional Institutions and Their Impact on the Innovation Environment in Silicon Valley

The history of innovation in Silicon Valley and the greater San Francisco Bay Area is frequently explained through the history of the people and companies who made the major technological advances and their personal and organizational triumphs and failures. What is often ignored or relegated to the background is the role that regional institutions played in nurturing the environment and culture in which these people and companies operated and how that role has evolved over time... PARC Vice President of Business Development John Knights examines the evolving roles of these institutions in light of the concurrent globalization of the high technology industry.