Second tier high-tech regions are taking a different path than their well-known counterparts such as Silicon Valley or Route 128 around Boston. They may lack many prerequisites of growth such as a world-class research university or high levels of venture capital funding. Often, however, they can successfully leverage anchor firms and entrepreneurial spinoffs. This book explores the evolution of these regions in the United States.
The author critically examines how they evolved as knowledge-based economies, how they leveraged entrepreneurship and innovation, and ultimately how they employed public policy to support economic growth.

Filling a gap in the literature, the book speaks to researchers and policy makers across the fields of entrepreneurship, economic geography and economic development planning. Entrepreneurship researchers will find this book interesting because it focuses on the role of new venture creation in regional economic development.

二线高科技地区正在走一条与硅谷或环绕波士顿的128号公路等著名地区不同的道路。它们可能缺乏许多增长的先决条件，如世界一流的研究型大学或高水平的风险投资资金。然而，它们通常可以成功地利用锚定公司和创业衍生产品。这本书探讨了美国这些地区的演变。
作者批判性地考察了它们是如何演变为知识经济的，它们是如何利用企业家精神和创新的，以及最终是如何利用公共政策支持经济增长的。
这本书填补了文献的空白，向企业家精神、经济地理和经济发展规划等领域的研究人员和决策者发表了演讲。创业研究人员会发现这本书很有趣，因为它关注的是创业在区域经济发展中的作用。