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Title: A Tale of Two Innovative Entrepreneurial Regions: The Research Triangle and Austin
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Publication Year: 2015
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Abstract: A search in Google Scholars for the key words research triangle, Austin, entrepreneur yields 1,420 academic articles. Most of these articles, however, only note in passing the importance of these two high-tech centers along with well-known Silicon Valley and Boston’s Route 128. There have been no comparative studies of the Research Triangle (RT) and Austin regions even as they are frequently identified as hot-technology spots after the more legendary larger Silicon Valley and Boston cases. As Herbing and Golden (1993) note, these two high-tech regions had their beginnings in the early 1950s, grew into national prominence in the 1970s, and are the two most spectacular success stories of the Sunbelt. The Austin and Research Triangle regions are uniquely compelling as comparative cases. At a general level these two regions constitute rare instances of areas that built up strong technology-based agglomerations in smaller urban regions with more traditional manufacturing or service sector economic bases. In each region active government and public-private sector collaborations attracted initial technology based companies and laid the foundations for the rapid subsequent growth of locally-based firms . . .
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Authors: Echeverri-Carroll, Elsie; Feldman, Maryann; Gibson, David; Lowe, Nichola; Oden, Michael
Publisher: University of Texas at Austin
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