AnnaLee Saxenian, author of the book "Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128", and Dean & Professor, School of Information, UC Berkeley, discusses the continuously changing Silicon Valley boundaries. This is a segment from the full unscripted interview.

AnnaLee Saxenian 1994 Interview
Interview date: December 11, 1994
Interviewer: John McLaughlin, Historian and President of the Santa Clara Valley Historical Association and Ward Winslow, historian

Interviewer's question:
"Boundaries of Silicon Valley?"

Transcript:
". . . One of the things that's the most striking about Silicon Valley is the way that it's grown geographically. When I started to study Silicon Valley in the late 1970s, it was easy to say that Silicon Valley was Santa Clara County — sort of from Palo Alto to San Jose, with Stanford in the north and San Jose in the south. Today Silicon Valley has spilled over geographically. It's spilled out to the south in Santa Cruz County. It's spilled to the north in San Mateo County, and it's spilled to the east in Alameda County. And it will continue to grow. This is a challenge for academics. Those of us that try to study the regional economy are completely daunted by the problem of where does the region end. I think in 15 to 20 years, the region will have extended to up . . . some people would argue that parts of Silicon Valley are now in San Francisco with the software industry in Berkeley or in Marin County, a lot of multimedia activity. I think that the geographic boundaries will continue to expand as the region continues to flourish, as the regional economy continues to flourish."

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