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Regional advantage in the global economy harvard university press, 2006, explores how the brain circulation by immigrant engineers from silicon valley has transferred technology entrepreneurship to emerging regions in china, india, taiwan, and israel. The global economys new argonauts the world economy has created a new class of global engineers. Annalee saxenian talks about berkeleys new masters in data science program duration. A new perspective on globalization, the new argonauts tells the story of the foreignborn, technically skilled investors and entrepreneurs who return home to start new companies while remaining tied to powerful economic and professional communities in the united states. Regional advantage in a global economy, explores the globalization of the technology workforce that has occurred as the. Annalee saxenian is dean and professor at the school of information and professor in the department of city and regional planning at the university of california, berkeley. Culture and competition in silicon valley and route 128 1994, both. In her latest book, professor saxenian, an economist and dean of the school of information at uc berkeley, explores brain circulation, the movement of resources, energy and ideas between hightech talent and their home countries. She received her ba from williams college in 1976 and her phd from massachusetts institute of technology in 1989. That was annalee saxenian, author of regional advantage and the new argonauts. The new argonauts extends saxenian s pioneering research into the dynamics of competition in silicon valley. Annalee saxenian is dean and professor in the school of information and professor in the department of city and regional planning at the university of california, berkeley.
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