This is an interesting overview of the history and drivers of Silicon Valley and the Cambridge Phenomenon - certainly, anyone working in those two places will find it fascinating.



The book starts worryingly like a university dissertation - but does get to the point and its theory a few pages in: that management and entrepreneurship have driven these tech centres - not geography, first mover advantage, or even technological advantage, or other vague impersonal forces. For the most part, the book demonstrates the theory, especially in the Silicon Valley half of the book. The Cambridge part of the book is a bit more historical and gossipy.