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The role of venture capital firms in Silicon valleys complex innovation network Michel Ferrary and Mark Granovetter Content 3 · Introduction An analysis of innovative clusters based on complex network theory Complex network theory Silicon Valley: an innovative cluster supported by complex social Vc firms as a source of robustness in silicon valley s complex nnovation network The contribution of vc firms to silicon valley Conclusion 1. ntroduction 3 Silicon Valley is a privileged object of research in the effort to Understand industrial clusters and innovation. In spite of huge ournalistic coverage and numerous books, we still poorly understand why Silicon Valley has originated so many breakthrough innovations and large companies. The durability of Silicon Valley s innovative competence over the last seventy years also needs more explanation The failure of several policy-makers around the world to reproduce the Silicon valley cluster reveals the misunderstanding of the innovative dynamic in Silicon Valley 1. ntroduction 3 This study analyses Silicon valley as an innovative cluster, not as an industrial one. Regarding Silicon Valley as a durable innovative cluster instead of an industrial cluster raises the question of the durability of its innovative capability o What explains its durable innovativeness? o How did Silicon valley cope with economic crises and new competitors in the last decades? o What are the structure and the dynamic of an innovative cluster? 1. ntroduction 3 This study uses complex network theory--CnT to analyse the complex innovative capability of Silicon Valley and to understand the heterogeneity of agents and the multiplexity of ties that support creation and development of high-tech start-ups. As proposed by Barabasi(2002, p 200), we view the economy as a complex network, whose nodes are companies and whose links represent the various economic and financial ties connecting them Innovation and entrepreneurship are understood as resulting fr