发明和创新推动了美国经济。更甚者,它们对国家的集体的想像力有着强有力的掌握。报纸上充满着硅谷企业家出奇的成功的故事。在这些英雄的传奇中,企业家是今天的牛仔,就像早先的美国人开发西部那样用同样的方法漫游在新的工业前沿。在他们的旁边站着风险资本家,明智的 Inventions and innovations propel the U.S. economy. What is more, they have a powerful grasp of the collective imagination of the country. The newspaper is full of surprisingly successful stories from Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. In the legend of these heroes, entrepreneurs are today’s cowboys roaming the new industrial frontier in much the same way as the earlier Americans developed the West. Standing beside them is a venture capitalist, wise