Culture and structure as a competitive advantage

Analyses, in depth, two US centres of innovation — in Silicon Valley, California, and Route 128, west of Boston, Massachusetts, stressing the former was successful and the latter not so. Discusses them in full and gives the pluses and minuses for both. Looks at regional culture, among others, for examples of how things can be progressed advantageously. Concludes that the proximity of firms in similar industries within the same region does not mean they will definitely benefit from this just from a geographical stance.