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And thanks for listening. Welcome to the HBR Ideacast from Harvard Business Review.

I'm Justin Fox and I spoke recently by phone with Analee Saxonyan,

Dean of the School of Information at the University of California Berkeley,

and the author of a landmark book about Silicon Valley that turns 20 years old this year.

It's called Regional Advantage.

Professor Saxony and you go by Ano, right?

That's correct.

Ano, welcome to Ideacast.

Thanks, great to be here.

The full title of the book is Regional Advantage, culture and competition in Silicon

Valley and Route 128. How did you come to rape this? Good question. I grew up in the East Coast. I grew up outside of Boston. My world was

the world of 128. Parents of my friends were engineers at MIT or they worked at Digital Equipment Corporation or Data General.

So that was my universe.

Until I came to graduate school in California in the late 1970s and started learning about San Jose and Silicon Valley and quickly

realized that there were actually two very different worlds, although we all saw them

as the same building mini computers, personal computers, technology

hubs, they were in fact very different.

That really was the genesis of the book.

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