Robert Locke is Emeritus Professor of History, Department of History, University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is the author of The End of the Practical Man (1984), Management and Higher Education Since 1940 (1989), and The Collapse of the American Management Mystique (1996). Katja Schone holds a Master's degree in Business Economics (BWL) and a PhD in International Relations.

• 1. Phenomenal Silicon Valley and the second Americanization; 2. American management education - adding the entrepreneurial dimension; 3. Adjusting higher education in France and Germany to a post 1945 world; 4. Creating German and French entrepreneurship studies; 5. Networking for high tech start-ups in Germany and France; 6. The Czech Republic: an arrested development; 7. Conclusions and policy recommendations.

Review of the hardback: '… a thoughtful essay on the difficult terrain of academia and high-tech entrepreneurship.' Professor Les Hannah, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo

Robert Locke is Emeritus Professor of History, Department of History, University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is the author of The End of the Practical Man (1984), Management and Higher Education Since 1940 (1989), and The Collapse of the American Management Mystique (1996). Katja Schone holds a Master's degree in Business Economics (BWL) and a PhD in International Relations.

• 1. Phenomenal Silicon Valley and the second Americanization; 2. American management education - adding the entrepreneurial dimension; 3. Adjusting higher education in France and Germany to a post 1945 world; 4. Creating German and French entrepreneurship studies; 5. Networking for high tech start-ups in Germany and France; 6. The Czech Republic: an arrested development; 7. Conclusions and policy recommendations.

Review of the hardback: '… a thoughtful essay on the difficult terrain of academia and high-tech entrepreneurship.' Professor Les Hannah, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo

Robert Locke is Emeritus Professor of History, Department of History, University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is the author of The End of the Practical Man (1984), Management and Higher Education Since 1940 (1989), and The Collapse of the American Management Mystique (1996). Katja Schone holds a Master's degree in Business Economics (BWL) and a PhD in International Relations.

• 1. Phenomenal Silicon Valley and the second Americanization; 2. American management education - adding the entrepreneurial dimension; 3. Adjusting higher education in France and Germany to a post 1945 world; 4. Creating German and French entrepreneurship studies; 5. Networking for high tech start-ups in Germany and France; 6. The Czech Republic: an arrested development; 7. Conclusions and policy recommendations.

Review of the hardback: '… a thoughtful essay on the difficult terrain of academia and high-tech entrepreneurship.' Professor Les Hannah, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo