Just how important unenforcability of non-competes was for making SV into SV is debatable (eg, clearly did not differentiate from LA). More compelling reason fo

Just how important unenforcability of non-competes was for making SV into SV is debatable (eg, clearly did not differentiate from LA). More compelling reason for any state to make them unenforceable is that less enforcement has better outcomes (more startups, jobs, incomes, patents; well last is problematic but usually used as a proxy for innovation), _even when Northern California is excluded from the dataset_; see 10.1287/mnsc.1100.1280 or http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/ebook/serien/lm/DRUIDwp/10-02.pdf http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/ebook/serien/lm/DRUIDwp/10-02.pdf