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12 de jul. de 2018 · This entry provides an overview of Silicon Valley, including its origins and development, as well as its impact on mass media and culture.
- Joachim Allgaier
understanding Silicon Valley is predicated upon tracing the evolution of technologies and the industries based on them, and, on the other dimension, the evolution of the institutions, practices, and cultural understandings that orient action.
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“Stanford and Silicon Valley: Lessons on becoming a high-tech region;” “Stanford University and Frederick Terman's blueprint for innovation in the knowledge economy;” “Follow the money: Engineering at Stanford and UC
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- Science and Research Actors
- Stanford University—The Heart of Silicon Valley
- Laboratories and Research Institutes
- Financial Capital
- Business Angels and Early Stage Financing
- Financing The Growth Phase: Venture Capital
- Spotlight: Sand Hill Road—The World’S Leading VC Neighborhood
- Support Infrastructure: Incubators and Accelerators
- Professional Service Providers
- Startups and Corporate Networks
Universities play a crucial role in innovation ecosystems, and most leading metropolitan areas globally are home to renowned universities.Footnote 7 Through their basic scientific research, universities influence technological development in the long term and produce knowledge and technologies that can be applied to industrial production as prototy...
In 2012, a large-scale survey of entrepreneurs coming out of Stanford University quantified the impact of university-based entrepreneurship ecosystems.Footnote 10The authors of that study concluded that, if the active companies founded by Stanford’s graduates were considered an independent nation, their revenues would make that nation the tenth lar...
The greater San Francisco Bay Area is also home to US Department of Energy laboratories like the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and NASA’s Ames Research Center. Together, these laboratories manage an annual research budget of almost USD4 billion and employ more th...
Silicon Valley is well known for its high venture capital and private equity investments going to startups and spin-off companies. About 80% of California’s venture capital—and 40% of the USA overall—is invested here, accounting for more than USD40 billion in 2019.Footnote 17A diverse network of business angels, business angel syndicates, venture c...
Business angels are usually successful founders or experienced managers themselves, who often have made a considerable fortune in their own businesses and wish to support the next generation of aspiring entrepreneurs. They invest in the early stages of a startup, closing a gap in the financing landscape since banks do not typically provide loans to...
Many startups are urged to grow rapidly and prevent their competitors from gaining market share. To finance the scaling of business activities, many companies need a lot of capital and therefore seek investment from venture capitalists (VCs). VCs are professional investors who invest large sums of money in startups on behalf of other wealthy indivi...
Sand Hill Road, a street that runs along the northwest edge of Stanford University’s campus, is home to many of the world’s leading venture capital firms. Andreessen Horowitz, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Greylock Partners, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, New Enterprise Associates, and Sequoia Capital are j...
Y Combinator,Footnote 26 founded in 2005 by Paul Graham and his team in Mountain View, is often referred to as the world’s first startup accelerator. It has funded over 2000 startups, which have a combined valuation of over USD100 billion. The accelerator phenomenon is internationally often referred to as a key factor and a major contribution to in...
The network of service professionals that help with legal questions, accounting, staffing and human resource issues, consulting services, and important investor or partner introductions is also referred to as “the entrepreneurial life support system”.Footnote 30 Whereas these services are remunerated by the hour or based on daily fees in most regio...
Startups in Silicon Valley also work with large firms considerably more often, than entrepreneurs in other ecosystems in Europe or the USA. One studyFootnote 32has identified these as crucial relationships within an innovation ecosystem, enabling startups to connect with global partners and suppliers. One might conclude that these startup-corporate...
What are the key components of Silicon Valley, how do they work, and how do they fit together? In this section, we introduce the Silicon Valley ecosystem, drawing upon existing research on Silicon Valley. Below are a broad overview of various characteristics of Silicon Valley most commonly
11 de nov. de 2023 · The study analyses the development of Silicon Valley, the government programmes in financing innovations and the specific characteristics/factors contributing to the success of the valley.
