Silicon Valley in California Is the World Center for the Computer

question 45

Multiple Choice

Silicon Valley in California is the world center for the computer and semiconductor industry and has many of the world's major computer and semiconductor companies located close to each other there. This provides the location-specific advantage of

• A) a multipoint competition.
• B) an oligopoly.
• C) first movers.
• D) externalities.
• E) free riders.

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