The Marches: A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland
by Rory Stewart · 14 Jul 2016 · 414pp · 128,962 words
by Japanese electronics companies. It had grown from a hamlet into one of the ten largest towns in Scotland, and the centre of Scotland’s silicon glen, pumping out about a third of the PCs in Europe and most of Europe’s ATMs. The corporation’s motto was ‘Creating a future where
Making It Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy
by Iain Martin · 11 Sep 2013 · 387pp · 119,244 words
late 1980s he gathered together bright young managers, friends from the government economic development agency he had run and executives from Scotland’s computer industry, ‘Silicon Glen’. With them he set about remaking the Royal Bank of Scotland. Mathewson’s new notion echoed an old idea. The reputation of the Scots as
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so much coal from the ground. The answer appeared to be that it would extract oil instead, make computers (in the emerging industry known as ‘Silicon Glen’) and possibly expand financial services. Mathewson’s mantra as boss of the SDA was that he would make any public sector money available go as
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of, ref 1 Scottish Point (Punta Escocés), ref 1 Scottish Reformation, ref 1 Securities and Investments Board (SIB), ref 1 S.G. Warburg, ref 1 ‘Silicon Glen’, ref 1, ref 2 Silver Jubilee Trust, ref 1 single currency, ref 1 Six Nations Championship, ref 1 Skilling, Jeffrey, ref 1 Smart, Alan, ref
The Best Interface Is No Interface: The Simple Path to Brilliant Technology (Voices That Matter)
by Golden Krishna · 10 Feb 2015 · 271pp · 62,538 words
, 30. Silicon Cape, 31. Silicon Coast, 32. Silicon Corridor, 33. Silicon Desert, 34. Silicon Dock, 35. Silicon Docks, 36. Silicon Fen, 37. Silicon Forest, 38. Silicon Glen, 39. Silicon Goli, 40. Silicon Gorge, 41. Silicon Gulf, 42. Silicon Harbor, 43. Silicon Hill, 44. Silicon Hills, 45. Silicon Lagoon, 46. Silicon Lane, 47
From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry
by Martin Campbell-Kelly · 15 Jan 2003
example, has a Silicon Fen (in the lowlands around Cambridge), a Silicon Ditch (in the Thames Valley corridor to the west of London), and a Silicon Glen (in Scotland). When planners attempt to clone Silicon Valley, they generally do so by trying to establish an economic and physical environment similar to that
Masters of Management: How the Business Gurus and Their Ideas Have Changed the World—for Better and for Worse
by Adrian Wooldridge · 29 Nov 2011 · 460pp · 131,579 words
might be called “Siliconitis”: the conviction that encouraging entrepreneurialism is synonymous with creating your own version of Silicon Valley—hence Silicon Alley, in New York; Silicon Glen, in Scotland; and even, depressingly, Silicon Roundabout, in London. But most Silicon knockoffs are failures. There is no point in trying to create the next
Social Life of Information
by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid · 2 Feb 2000 · 791pp · 85,159 words
quite literally. Even for information technology firms, neighborhoods and regions remain significant. The namesnot only Silicon Valley, but less-familiar names from the Silicon family ("Silicon Glen" (Scotland), "Silicon Alley" (New York), "Silicon Forest" (Oregon), and many more) as well as others such as "Multimedia Gulch" and "Audio Alley''suggest the continuing
The Great Economists Ten Economists whose thinking changed the way we live-FT Publishing International (2014)
by Phil Thornton · 7 May 2014
a reflection of the way that Marshall saw the world. The focus on finding a way to mimic the modern high-tech industrial districts of Silicon Glen near Cambridge and the Silicon Roundabout in London’s East End reflect his contribution. Marshall opens Principles of Economics with the grand claim that economics