Where Are Your New Argonauts?

AnnaLee Saxenian documents the emergence of "the new Argonauts" who are connecting our world in new ways.

The new Argonauts are those foreign-born, technically skilled entrepreneurs who travel back and forth between Silicon Valley and their home countries. The result is that they undermine "the old pattern of one-way flows of technology and capital from the core to the periphery, creating far more complex and decentralized two-way flows of skill, capital and technology. They have created dynamic collaborators in distant and differently specialized regional economies, while largely avoiding head-on competition with industry leaders."

If it can happen in Silicon Valley, can it happen elsewhere? And what can urban leaders do to foster this kind of international collaboration?

Want to learn more? Read Saxenian's book, "The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy."

  

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