AnnaLee Saxenian

AnnaLee Saxenian is Dean and Professor in the School of Information and Professor in the Department of City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. Her most recent book, The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy (Harvard University Press, 2006), explores how the "brain circulation" by immigrant engineers from Silicon Valley has transferred technology entrepreneurship to emerging regions in China, India, Taiwan, and Israel.

Her prior publications include Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 (Harvard, 1994), Silicon Valley's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs (Public Policy Institute of California, 1999), and Local and Global Networks of Immigrant Professionals in Silicon Valley (PPIC, 2002).

Other publications, speeches, and course syllabi may be found on Dean Saxenian's website at the School of Information.

CYPLAN 220: The Urban and Regional Economy

CYPLAN 225: Methods of Regional Analysis

CYPLAN 227: Studies in Regional Growth and Development Theory

CYPLAN 290/PS223: The Politics of the "New Economy"

INFO 211: Group and Organizational Approaches to Information Systems Use