In Silicon Valley, you locate a company where the engineers are. Writing in The New York Times, Steve Lohr explored the geography of the Valley and found it to be a "collection of remarkably local clusters based on industry niches, skills, school ties, traffic patterns, ethnic groups and even weekend sports teams."

As one v-c told Lohr, "Here we have microclimates for wines and microclimates for companies." And these microclusters turn out to be a very efficient way to innovate, to see what works and what fails and do it extremely rapidly, AnnaLee Saxenian observed.

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