Endnotes

1. Anna Lee Saxenian, Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 , Fourth edition, Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA, 1996.

2. Doug Henton, "A Profile of the Valley's Evolving Structure," Silicon Valley Edge , Stanford University Press: Palo Alto, CA, 2000.

3. Anna Lee Saxenian, Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 , Fourth edition, Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA, 1996.

4. For more information on the Bird Foundation see www.birdf.com.

5. Agilent Technologies, www. agilent .com/about/index.html.

6. Agilent Technologies, www.agilent.com/about/index.html.