Social Culture and High-Tech Economic Development

1. Introduction: Technology-Based Economic Development and the Initiatives that Advance it
Fred Phillips

Part I. Austin

2. Toward a Modern Economics
Fred Phillips

3. Memoir on the History of the Austin Software Council
Fred Phillips

4. The Austin Experience: Behind the Success Factors
Fred Phillips

5. Toward an Intellectual Foundation for “Shared Prosperity”
Fred Phillips

6. The Business School in a Time of Transition
Fred Phillips

7. Anointing a “City of Light and Wisdom”
David Gibson

8. Advantage Austin II
George Kozmetsky, Patricia A. Hayes

Part II. Portland

9. Portland Looks at International Benchmarks
Fred Phillips

10. The Power of Combination: Three Unpopular Truths about Civic Entrepreneurship
Fred Phillips

11. Gaining on Us and Closing Fast
Fred Phillips

12. Sometimes, Montana
Fred Phillips

13. Lack of Investment Puts Portland Behind
Fred Phillips

14. Twelve Hurdles to Starting an Executive MOT Program: How and Why to Overcome Them
Fred Phillips

15. Do We Know How to Play This Game? Some Thoughts on Regional Leadership
Ralph R. Shaw

16. Bring Back Oregon’s Common Sense of Purpose
Chet Orloff

17. Please, Portland, Don’t Pearlize Joe’s Garage
Pierre Ouellette

Part III. And Beyond

18. Sustaining a Technopolis Initiative
Fred Phillips

19. WTO vs. WTA? Exploring the World Trade Organization’s Impact on Technopolis
Fred Phillips

20. Why Do Universities Transfer Technology?
Fred Phillips

21. Universities and Incubators
Fred Phillips

22. Does Place Matter? Quality of Life and Wandering Alumni
Fred Phillips

23. Short Takes
Fred Phillips

24. Technology Is the Engine of a New Russian Revolution
David Gibson

25. Conclusion
Fred Phillips

Keywords: Economics, Urban Economics, Regional/Spatial Science, Business and Management, general, Industries, Economic Geography, Entrepreneurship