Academic literature on the topic 'Silicon Valley'

<p>Arbetsmarknaden i Silicon Valley karakteriseras av faktorer som hög personalomsättning, nätverkande och risktagande. Denna arbetsmarknad har vuxit fram på en begränsad geografisk yta och består idag ca 7 500 företag. Mjärdevi Science Park är en av de snabbast växande teknikparkerna i världen, varför vi anser att en jämförelse av de båda arbetsmarknaderna är intressant. Syftet är att med utgångspunkt från de faktorer som karakteriserar arbetsmarknaden i Silicon Valley, genomföra en jämförelse med arbetsmarknaden i Mjärdevi Science Park. Denna uppsats kommer inte att behandla vad det är som gör en teknikpark ekonomiskt framgångsrik. Uppsatsen är konstruerad efter ett så kallat systemsynsätt och bygger på en studie av sekundärmaterial om Silicon Valley samt på tio intervjuer med anställda och med representanter för Mjärdevi Science Park. Vi definierar olika faktorer som karakteriserar arbetsmarknaden i Silicon Valley utifrån ett systemsynsätt innehållande systemmiljö, infrastruktur och tre olika subsystem. Subsystemen genererar tillsammans en unik arbetsmarknad som i Silicon Valley kan sägas ha en intern karaktär och som präglas av rörlighet. I Mjärdevi kan dessa tre subsystem uttydas i mindre utsträckning. Vidare kan endast en del av arbetsmarknaden sägas ha en intern karaktär då området ännu är för litet.</p>

In recent years, Silicon Valley has become virtually synonymous with startup companies. These companies are defined by their famous "startup culture." An interesting and unanticipated outcome of this research was the finding that the discourse of Silicon Valley startups is framed centrally in terms of culture. I use discourse analysis to understand the way people create and perpetuate structures of power, gender, and culture. By studying the way people in startup companies talk about their expectations and experiences, this analysis hopes to gain a deeper understanding into the normalized cultural discourses surrounding startup organizations, as well as the way individuals negotiate their subjective realities within this sphere.

Thesis: S.M. in Real Estate Development, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Real Estate Development in conjunction with the Center for Real Estate, 2016.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 54-56).<br>In today's innovation economy, the development of innovation hubs is viewed as a strategic undertaking to nourish the entrepreneurial ecosystem and to enhance economic vitality. The study uses Silicon Valley, one of the most successful innovation hubs in modern history, as a case example to find the factors that have contributed to its success, and how these factors will evolve over time. Using existing literature and in-depth interviews, the study produces a framework of key factors that will influence the development of such hubs in the future. Silicon Valley case shows that the foundation element of a successful innovation hub is people - the human capital. Adding to this element, five hardware ingredients - Universities & R&D Centers, Venture Capital, Major Corporations, Service Providers, and Government - have an irreplaceable role in sustaining the vitality of such hubs. The intangible software, culture with its four dimensions entrepreneurial mentality, mobility of resources, global perspective and shared vision, acts as a catalyst that brings the foundation element and hardware ingredients together, allowing them to interact and cooperate. Ultimately, an effective entrepreneurial ecosystem is formed from the combination of all these factors. The findings from in-depth interviews suggest that the original culture of Silicon Valley will continue to play a key role in future innovation hubs. This entrepreneurial mentality, especially in terms of openness, supportiveness, forgiveness and risk-taking attitude, remains highly desired by today's entrepreneurs. Simultaneously, recent shifts in the demographic landscape have changed the nature of the foundation element - people. Millennials and the Creative Class have become a dominant pool of talented workforce, and they possess different values and preferences compared to other generations. Together with urbanization, this creative workforce shows high appreciation towards the role of place and urban lifestyle. Thus, in order to successfully attract and retain such talents, urban location will play an increasingly important role in future innovation hubs. It is estimated that the "place element" will become a new addition the innovation hub hardware system, supporting the overall development of entrepreneurial climate.<br>by Dandi Li.<br>S.M. in Real Estate Development

Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2008.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 82-83).<br>California faces an immediate and dire water shortage. The San Joaquin River Delta water supply system - which provides Silicon Valley with most of its fresh water - periodically draws down water delivery due to drought and environmental degradation. Currently, these policyscale decisions may only be met with very small-scale compensatory measures (on the order of "change your light bulbs"). There are not yet any solutions proposed at a middle, mediating, architectural scale. This thesis asks: how could an architectural intervention provide a solution to regional needs? Fast and furious development in recent decades has brought on and compounded major environmental problems, as well as increased the already high value of land in the region. In Silicon Valley, a growing population and a rapidly expanding high-tech (these days meaning biotech / pharmaceutical) industry pressure its few remaining large vacant parcels to develop. One can see in these sites the quiet but great potential danger of the status quo. They could just be the last large parcels slated for subdivision, and we could continue nostalgically lamenting the drain on and damage to natural resources. Or these sites could be our first chance at something new. This thesis explores a radically positive view of development, proposing an approach to program that multiplies value on all fronts economic, cultural, infrastructural, and environmental - and asks: how can a new infrastructure best perform?<br>(cont.) In order to directly address the region's multiple needs (infrastructural, economic, civic, and environmental), normative development provides a scaffolding for waste-water treatment wetlands that double as urban wildlife sanctuaries. This combined program capitalizes on a highly valued, increasingly scarce cash crop produced as a by-product when treating waste water. This new cash crop is water. Clean enough to drink, this water be sold back to the neighbors, forming a new infrastructural network of "locally grown" gray water. This infrastructural network reinstitutes wildness - if not wilderness - in Silicon Valley, combating its homogenous regional development patterns by proposing a new network " of un-settlement. A new homestead, for the new cash crop.<br>by Kathleen M. Flynn.<br>M.Arch.