In this post, guest Russell Jurney and I explore a historical perspective of the widespread efforts to reproduce Silicon Valley in cities across the world

What is Silicon Valley? An economic cluster. A network of networks, rich in financial and social capital spanning every area of technology, all focused on developing and commercializing new technologies.

It is the center of a one hundred ten year technological renaissance, the Florence of our time. The most determined, hungriest, and most talented have flocked to the Valley from every corner of the world for more than a century to build thousands of companies that pioneered many of the technologies that underpin global civilization.  More>>