How Cities Can Create the Next Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is the most innovative region in the world. But how did an area of fruit orchards get this way? How can other cities — say, Boston with its Route 128 — replicate this creative energy?

A research paper from Wharton takes a step closer to answering that question by looking at trade secrecy laws and what’s called the inevitable disclosure doctrine. They found that employer-friendly trade secrecy regulations, such as delaying workers from moving to a competitor, do dampen innovation. But not for the reason that current academic literature thinks.