Learning the Silicon Valley way / Gordon Moore and Kevin Davis -- Israel's Silicon Wadi : the forces behind cluster formation / Catherine de Fontenay and Erran Carmel -- In the footsteps of Silicon Valley? : Indian and Irish software in the international division of labor / Ashish Arora, Alfonso Gambardella, and Salvatore Torrisi -- Agglomeration and growth : a study of the Cambridge high-tech cluster / Suma Athreye -- Clusters, competition, and "global players" in ICT markets : the case of Scandinavia / John E. Richards -- Taiwan's Hsinchu region : imitator and partner for Silicon Valley / Anna Lee Saxenian -- Role of government in regional technology development : the effects of public venture capital and science parks / Scott Wallsten -- Imitating Silicon Valley : regional comparisons of innovation activity based on venture capital flows / Michael Horvath -- Old-economy inputs for new-economy outcomes : what have we learned? / Timothy Bresnahan and Alfonso Gambardella.