Download or read book Silicon Valley North written by Larisa V Shavinina and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Silicon Valley has achieved internationalrecognition as a successful high-technology sector, acting as a model for othergovernments that wish to create similarly successful high technologyindustries. In particular, the American Silicon Valley has influenced thehigh-technology industry of Canada, with Ottawa now referred to as SiliconValley North or Canadian Silicon Valley. This book seeks to illuminate thevarious aspects of Silicon Valley North. Initially, the author provides alengthy discussion of the American Silicon Valley, specifically discussingfourteen of the "hidden" mechanisms that led to its success, includingthe value of excellence and the establishment of a democratic, humanisticatmosphere. A discussion of the Canadian Silicon Valley is thenpresented. The purpose of this book is to present expert informationabout Silicon Valley North, including the development of technology, the roleof venture capital, the influence of universities, and the activities ofentrepreneurs. The book also seeks to provide the reader with significantfindings and research to shape their own ideas for creating a similarregion. The book is divided into three parts: Part I provides general,historical information; Part II addresses aspects of Ottawa's high technologysector; and Part III combines all the information. (AKP) Table of Contents Introduction Silicon Phenomenon: Introduction to Some Important Issues, L.V.Shavinina Silicon Valley North: The Formation of the Ottawa Innovation Cluster,J.G. Mallett Yesterday's Adventures with Today's Technology: CarletonUniversity's Wired City Simulation Laboratry, D.C.Coll Silicon Valley North: Its Recent Past, Current State, and Future Firm Demographics in Silicon Valley North, F. Brouard et al. A Tale of One City: The Ottawa Technology Cluster, J.J. Madill, G. H.Haines, Jr., and A.L. Riding The National Capital Region's Product Leadership Cluster, A.J.Bailetti How Technology-Intensive Clusters are Organized in the Ottawa Region, A.O'Sullivan The Role of Venture Capital in Building Technology Companies inthe Ottawa Region, J. Callahan and K. Charbonneau The Role of Universities in Developing Canadian Silicon Valley, R.Armit The River Runs Through It: The Case for Collaborative Governance in theNational Capital Region, G. Paquet, J. Roy, and C. Wilson Technological Development in Gatineau, the Quebec Sector of Silicon ValleyNorth, F. Materazzi Developing Knowledge Workers in Silicon Valley North: Its Not Just AboutTraining, L. Dyke, L. Duxbury, and N. Lam Can Technology Clusters Deliver Sustainable Livelihoods? Constructing a Rolefor Community Economic Development, E.T. Jackson and R. Khan An Innovative Model for Skill Development in Silicon Valley North:O-Vitesse, A. Chhatbar Ottawa's TalentWorks - Regional Learning & Collaborative Governance fora Knowledge Age, G. Paquet and J. Roy, and C. Wilson Conclusion. Luster of Clusters: A Cautionary Tale, W. Thorngate.

Download or read book Silicon Valley North written by Larisa V. Shavinina and published by Elsevier Science Limited. This book was released on 2004-09-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the evident importance of Silicon Valley North for regional, national, and international technological development this phenomenon is far from being well understood. An exceptionally timely endeavor, this book is devoted to the multidimensional and multifaceted nature of SVN, its history, current state and future developments.

Download or read book Seeing Silicon Valley written by Mary Beth Meehan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also published in French as Visages de la Silicon Valley.

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Download or read book The Silicon Valley Edge written by Chong-Moon Lee and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at Silicon Valley's business environment, and what features have made it a fertile ground for start-up companies who develop radical and disruptive technologies.

Download or read book Silicon Valley written by Sam Shueh and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nestled at the south end of San Francisco Bay, there lies a fertile valley. Cradled by the ancient Diablo and Santa Cruz Mountain ranges, the region spans much of the Santa Clara Valley, curling north from Menlo Park into Palo Alto. At its eastern gateway lies Milpitas and in the south is the Evergreen area, in the shadow of Mount Hamilton. The heart of the valley is San Jose. For many years, each spring, fruit trees produced flower blossoms as far as the eye could see. After World War II, veterans returned home, attended local engineering schools, and quickly became engaged in electronics and aeronautics development. The discovery of semiconductors and computer and Internet technologies radically altered the area, sped its momentum, and earned it its titlethe Silicon Valleynow arguably the worlds preeminent center for technological advances. Like the seismic waves that created the region, the valleys economic peaks and plunges have shaped the lives of its residents, but they continue to look to the future, developing new technologies to advance mankind.

Download or read book A History of Silicon Valley written by Piero Scaruffi and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first history of Silicon Valley from 1900 to the 2010s. It is a comprehensive study of the greatest creation of wealth in the history of the world, from the establishment of Stanford University to the age of social media. The underlying objective is to find the reason why it was Silicon Valley, and not some place on the East Coast or in Europe, that became the creative technological hub of the 21st century. Silicon Valley did not happen in a vacuum: the book also explores the surrounding social and cultural environment of the Bay Area. This "green" book follows the "red book" od 2012, which was the (sold out) first edition coauthored with Arun Rao, and the "blue book", which was Arun's proof-edited and expanded second edition of all chapters. The 600-page blue book is still available and contains both my old chapters and Arun's chapters. This 500-page green edition contains only my chapters (basically, the chronology) updated to 2015 and with many additions to early chapters and a new chapter on Asia.

Download or read book Making Silicon Valley written by Christophe Lécuyer and published by Chemical Heritage Foundation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the innovative practices in the San Francisco-area electronics industry that paved the way for the rise of the computer industry in Silicon Valley.

Download or read book People s History of Silicon Valley written by Keith A Spencer and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regardless of where you live or work, Silicon Valley undoubtedly touches your life-the tech industry's gadgets and apps promise us more efficient, convenient, and fun lives. Yet despite Silicon Valley's utopian promises, more and more of us find ourselves addicted to our smartphones, made insecure by social media, gentrified away by tech wealth, and alarmed at social media companies profiting off personal data. This succinct guide follows Silicon Valley and the tech industry from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day, tracing how Silicon Valley changed the San Francisco Bay Area, changed human culture, and ultimately changed the way we think about ourselves. From the first Macintosh to the rise of social media, A Brief History of Silicon Valley peels back the curtain on an industry that brands itself as visionary but which may be swiftly hurtling us towards dystopia.

Download or read book Understanding Silicon Valley written by Martin Kenney and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores the factors that have made Silicon Valley such a fertile breeding ground for new technologies and new firms. It looks at how its pioneering achievements begana̧nd the forces that have propelled its unprecedented growth.

Download or read book The New New Thing A Silicon Valley Story written by Michael M. Lewis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the unlikely story of Silicon Valley through the life of one of its great achievers--Jim Clark, who founded Silicon Graphics and Netscape and may be on the verge of another trillion-dollar company.

Download or read book Out Innovate written by Alexandre "Alex" Lazarow and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new playbook for innovation and startup success is emerging from beyond Silicon Valley--at the "frontier." Startups have changed the world. In the United States, many startups, such as Tesla, Apple, and Amazon, have become household names. The economic value of startups has doubled since 1992 and is projected to double again in the next fifteen years. For decades, the hot center of this phenomenon has been Silicon Valley. This is changing fast. Thanks to technology, startups are now taking root everywhere, from Delhi to Detroit to Nairobi to Sao Paulo. Yet despite this globalization of startup activity, our knowledge of how to build successful startups is still drawn primarily from Silicon Valley. As venture capitalist Alexandre Lazarow shows in this insightful and instructive book, this Silicon Valley "gospel" is due for a refresh--and it comes from what he calls the "frontier," the growing constellation of startup ecosystems, outside of the Valley and other major economic centers, that now stretches across the globe. The frontier is a truly different world where startups often must cope with political or economic instability and lack of infrastructure, and where there might be little or no access to angel investors, venture capitalists, or experienced employee pools. Under such conditions, entrepreneurs must be creators who build industries rather than disruptors who change them because there are few existing businesses to disrupt. The companies they create must be global from birth because local markets are too small. They focus on resiliency and sustainability rather than unicorn-style growth at any cost. With rich and wide-ranging stories of frontier innovators from around the world, Out-Innovate is the new playbook for innovation--wherever it has the potential to happen.

Download or read book Silicon Valley written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Agnew's Village, California, Arts Council Silicon Valley, Bay Area Climate Collaborative, Carl Guardino, Eren Niazi, HP Garage, Old Bank of America Building (San Jose, California), PayPal Mafia, Santa Clara Valley, Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, Silicon valley association of startup entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley Leadership Group, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, Silicon Vikings, Singularity University, Sustainable Silicon Valley, TechNet (lobbying organization), VCSV. Excerpt: Silicon Valley is the southern region of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California, in the United States. The region, whose name derives from the Santa Clara Valley in which it is centered, is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations as well as thousands of small startups. The term originally referred to the region's large number of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers, but eventually came to refer to all the high-tech businesses in the area; it is now generally used as a metonym for the American high-tech sector. Despite the development of other high-tech economic centers throughout the United States and the world, Silicon Valley continues to be the leading hub for high-tech innovation and development, accounting for one-third (1/3) of all of the venture capital investment in the United States. Geographically, Silicon Valley encompasses all of the Santa Clara Valley including the city of San Jose (and adjacent communities), the southern Peninsula Valley, and the southern East Bay. However, with the rapid growth of technology jobs in the San Francisco metropolitan area, the traditional boundaries of Silicon Valley have expanded north to include the rest of San Mateo County and the City and County of San Francisco, as well as parts of Marin County. The term Silicon Valley was coined by Ralph Vaerst, a...

Download or read book EMPOWERED written by Marty Cagan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Great teams are comprised of ordinary people that are empowered and inspired. They are empowered to solve hard problems in ways their customers love yet work for their business. They are inspired with ideas and techniques for quickly evaluating those ideas to discover solutions that work: they are valuable, usable, feasible and viable. This book is about the idea and reality of "achieving extraordinary results from ordinary people". Empowered is the companion to Inspired. It addresses the other half of the problem of building tech products?how to get the absolute best work from your product teams. However, the book's message applies much more broadly than just to product teams. Inspired was aimed at product managers. Empowered is aimed at all levels of technology-powered organizations: founders and CEO's, leaders of product, technology and design, and the countless product managers, product designers and engineers that comprise the teams. This book will not just inspire companies to empower their employees but will teach them how. This book will help readers achieve the benefits of truly empowered teams"--

Download or read book Geek Silicon Valley written by Ashlee Vance and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silicon Valley veterans and newbies alike will want to explore this book that delves into the rich history behind the region that birthed the world's most important industry. Technology journalist Ashlee Vance has captured almost every aspect of the area stretching between San Francisco and San Jose, California, starting with the eager radio and electronics enthusiasts of the early 1900s and ending with the computing powerhouses of today such as Google and Apple. Along the way, the book profiles the people and places that have elevated Silicon Valley to an almost mythic pedestal. This book delivers Silicon Valley, taking us from success story to failed startup and back again as we drive the roads from San Francisco to Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara and San Jose. It's full of profiles of the larger-than-life characters that pioneered the processor, computer, and Internet revolutions. The book's vibrant design includes "Silicon Valley Soundbytes" packed with insider information and trivia, and "Click Here" sidebars, which suggest places to eat, drink, and shop. Place by place, readers get the inside scoop on all the addresses that count, which include Microsoft research centers; the headquarters of Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle; research powerhouses such as Stanford University, NASA Ames, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; the Computer History Museum and The Tech Museum; the Shoreline Amphitheater; the Churchill Club; and many more.

Download or read book Silicon Valley North written by Don DeGenova and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Abolish Silicon Valley written by Wendy Liu and published by Repeater. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former insider turned critic Wendy Liu busts the myths of the tech industry, and offers a galvanising argument for why and how we must reclaim technology's potential for the public good. Innovation. Meritocracy. The possibility of overnight success. What's not to love about Silicon Valley? These days, itÕs hard to be unambiguously optimistic about the growth-at-all-costs ethos of the tech industry. Public opinion is souring in the wake of revelations about Cambridge Analytica, Theranos, and the workplace conditions of Amazon workers or Uber drivers. ItÕs becoming clear that the tech industryÕs promised ÒinnovationÓ is neither sustainable nor always desirable. Abolish Silicon Valley is both a heartfelt personal story about the wasteful inequality of Silicon Valley, and a rallying call to engage in the radical politics needed to upend the status quo. Going beyond the idiosyncrasies of the individual founders and companies that characterise the industry today, Wendy Liu delves into the structural factors of the economy that gave rise to Silicon Valley as we know it. Ultimately, she proposes a more radical way of developing technology, where innovation is conducted for the benefit of society at large, and not just to enrich a select few.