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Saper, Roderick Mark Avram. "Re-presenting Silicon Valley." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.613958.
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Rooker, Tyler. "Zhongguancun : the Silicon Valley of China /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
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Persson, Sara, and Ulrika Stenbeck. "Silicon Valley och Mjärdevi : en jämförande studie." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Management and Economics, 2000. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-577.
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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.
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Studholme, Nora E. "Silicon Valley Startup Companies: A Question of Culture." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/962.
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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.
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Saxenian, AnnaLee. "The political economy of industrial adaptation in Silicon Valley." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/14340.
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Applin, Sally A. "Disrupting Silicon Valley dreams : adaptations through making, being, and branding." Thesis, University of Kent, 2016. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/59378/.
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Li, Dandi S. M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Developing future innovation hubs Through the case study of Silicon Valley." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106756.
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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.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 54-56).
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.
by Dandi Li.
S.M. in Real Estate Development
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Sandmann, Patrick. "Telearbeit - Impulse für eine zukunftsfähige Regionalentwicklung? Fallbeispiele aus dem Silicon Valley und Los Angeles für "Lernende Regionen" /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2000. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=960256229.
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Пачома, Л. О. "Чи можливо створити в Україні силіконову долину?" Thesis, Українська академія банківської справи Національного банку України, 2007. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/61499.
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Flynn, Kathleen M. (Kathleen Michele). "The sprawl of the wild : a new infrastructural landscape in Silicon Valley." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45969.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (p. 82-83).
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?
(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.
by Kathleen M. Flynn.
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Sun, Kristi. "The Power of Perks: Equity Theory and Job Satisfaction in Silicon Valley." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/846.
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Silicon Valley is known for its amazing workspace and perks. Due to Equity Theory and Two-factor Theory, employees should be content and stay longer. However, studies have found that there's a higher rate of job-hopping, which seems like a contradiction (Fallick et al, 2006). Participants were 135 engineers, ages 18 to 35 years old, who completed an online survey looking at job satisfaction, job expectations, perk usage, employee perception of perks, personal equity sensitivity, and comparison others. Recruitment was done through personal connections in the Bay Area and various social media sites that are targeted towards engineers. Results did not show that job satisfaction influenced job expectations while individual differences in equity didn’t influence perk usage, perceptions of job expectations. In conclusion, this research adds to the dearth of literature about Silicon Valley, and, more broadly, explored a link between Equity Theory and Two-Factor Theory that had not been previously examined.
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Morales, Omar. "Factors that Lead to Retention of Acquired Engineers at Microsoft in Silicon Valley." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10615639.
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This study examined factors that lead to retention of engineers who joined Microsoft in Silicon Valley as part of an acquisition. The study findings surfaced two set of factors that are important in retaining acquired engineers. The factors are broken up by pre- and post-acquisition. Recommendations of this study include the importance of comprehensive communication plans, community and belonging, and personal and professional growth in retaining acquired engineers. Recommendations for further research include expanding the study beyond Microsoft Silicon Valley, and mapping to motivational theories. This study concludes that organizational development practitioners should understand the strategic intention of an acquisition and augment employee engagement and retention plans accordingly. This study can aide practitioners by presenting the factors that lead to retention of acquired engineers at Microsoft in Silicon Valley.
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Aggarwal, Avantika. "Company Culture: Comparing the Culture in the Silicon Valley and on Wall Street." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1316.
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Company Culture can be defined as a set of values and beliefs that an organization imbibes in its practices and habits. Studies show that leaders have a strong influence on the company culture and that a strong company culture has a positive impact on employee satisfaction as well as on the company performance. While the Silicon Valley is known for its vibrant culture The Wall Street is known for its bad practices and toxic environment. This paper evaluates these two sectors on the basis of their company cultures and makes a recommendation on which sector is doing better and why
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Vela, Jorge L. Hooghe Liesbet. "Radical innovation in the transatlantic economy is a Silicon Valley possible in Europe? /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2728.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.Title from electronic title page (viewed Mar. 10, 2010). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Arts in the Transatlantic Masters TAM Program in the Department of Political Science." Discipline: Political Science; Department/School: Political Science.
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Sloves, Alexandra N. "The Impact of Geographic Proximity to Silicon Valley on the Success of New Ventures." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/795.
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This paper seeks to understand the role of proximity to Silicon Valley and the Silicon Valley network effect on venture success. Despite the wealth of literature on the role and importance of geographic proximity in the venture capital process, no studies have specifically examined the impact of geographic proximity to Silicon Valley on venture success. I build my study on existing literature but deviate from past research in the following ways: first, I narrow the research question to the relationship between geographic proximity to Silicon Valley and successful exit; second, I consider success from the perspective of the venture rather than the venture-backing firm; third, I employ a logistical model as well as a linear probability model; fourth I control for endogeneity by isolating first rounds; lastly, I exclude syndicated deals, focusing on 1:1 venture-backing firm-to-venture deals. I use VenureXpert data for Silicon Valley-backed firms located both in and outside Silicon Valley to test hypotheses regarding geographic proximity. The results are significant and suggest that venture location in Silicon Valley is associated with greater venture success. Based on the results, it is clear that the impact of the Silicon Valley network effect is statistically meaningful and should encourage ventures to continue to strategically locate themselves in Silicon Valley.
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Mirbach, Marissa C. "Forces of Change: Silicon Valley's Developing Relationship with American Government." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1341.
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Silicon Valley has increased its political engagement over the past decade, and is becoming an increasingly powerful force in government. It defies traditional affiliation labels, and behaves differently than other industries. It embodies a blend of altruism and self-interest, which guides its interactions with government and its intentions in affecting policy changes. In order to better understand Silicon Valley's political life, this thesis outlines a brief history of its development, and then delves into three policy issues: education reform, immigration reform and encryption and security. This focus allows for an up-close, detailed look at the multi-faceted relationship between Silicon Valley and the government.
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Chung, Hye Won. "Google Bus or Google Ferry: Determinants of Commuting from Greater San Francisco to Silicon Valley." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/866.
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In light of the civil unrest surrounding the tech industry’s corporate shuttle buses, this paper examines factors that determine the percentage of commuters from Greater San Francisco to Silicon Valley. By using aggregate characteristics of two departing cities (San Francisco and Oakland) and 34 receiving cities in Silicon Valley in 2006 and 2011, the study shows that distance alone is statistically significant across various specifications. Relative median housing values and relative unemployment rates mattered at times. These findings can help businesses and governments in the area make educated decisions regarding employment and residential locations.
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Wang, Tracy. "Parking Management for Silicon Valley--A guide for planners, decision makers, and the general public." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2010. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/432.
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The crisis of climate change has jumpstarted a renewed interest in environmental sustainability. The growing awareness of the problem and the ensuing intense search for solutions called for a scrutinizing reexamination of the relationships between transportation, land use, and greenhouse gas emissions. Major publications such as The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup in 2005, and Parking Management, Strategies, Evaluation and Planning by Todd Litman in 2008, have identified parking as a crucial link. Parking issues are intrinsic to planning because parking facilities are a major land use type that affects how we design and build our commercial and residential areas, as well as influences our travel behavior which directly affects the form of urban infrastructure demanded by society.
The management of parking demand and supply is highly complex because of its political and controversial nature. This thesis studies parking comprehensively in order to provide a guide for Silicon Valley cities. The contents of this comprehensive toolbox include background information, overview of major strategies with local examples, suggestions for securing financial and human resources necessary for planning and implementation of parking policies, and an inventory and analysis of current policies of 22 Silicon Valley cities. Also included in the appendix is a presentation with illustrations summarizing the thesis, titled "The Story of Parking”.
This study recommends strengthening the language of existing, adopted parking policies and following up with appropriate implementation measures to decrease general parking demand in Silicon Valley cities. Cities can further manage their parking supply and demand by adopting new policies such as parking maximums, allowance of off-site parking with shuttle services, allowance of parking lifts, and improving accessibility of parking user information.. More aggressive policies to adopt and implement include parking taxes, parking pricing, encouraging car share, and unbundling parking.
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TILLQVIST, VIKTOR, and KASPER BOURDETTE. "Organizational innovation for rapidlychanging environments : A case study on large multinational Swedish companies in comparison to the Silicon Valley model." Thesis, KTH, Industriell Management, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-191223.
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Megatrends such as globalization, digitalization and the increased rate of technological developmentare all example of aspects that directly affect and challenge companies. While it opens up for new business opportunities it also serves an increasingly competitive climate and puts tougher pressure on organizations. While several traditional management models are focused on internal aspects such as improving processes, reducing waste and removing non-value adding procedures it is argued in literature that having dynamic capabilities is key to succeed in a more rapidly changing environment. This means being able to not only handle daily business but also to sense, shape and seize opportunities and transform the organization accordingly. The Silicon Valley Model (SVM) is a holistic management model that aims at generating dynamic capabilities for firms in rapidly changing environments. This study is centered on identifying if the five principles that constitute the SVM are adopted in large multinational Swedish companies founded during the industrial era. The five principles are: 1. The Dynamic Firm 2. A People-Centric Approach 3. An Ambidextrous Organization 4. An Open Organization That Networks with Its Surroundings 5. A Systems Approach By interviewing 14 C-level employees in Telia, Lantmännen, Trelleborg and “Company A” we found that Telia and Lantmännen have implemented or have clear transformation initiatives that indicate that they are moving towards implementing all the management principles of the SVM. Trelleborg have or are moving towards all principles except an ambidextrous organization, which was not found during interviews. The fourth case company is anonymous and therefore called Company A. They are operating in a more stable environment, which moves towards being more dynamic. They was seen implementing some management principles of the model, but did not have a holistic approach for it. The common denominator is that all companies come from having established satisfyingly efficient operational cores and profitability levels, before shifting focus towards having a growth and innovation focus.Megatrender som globalisering, digitalisering och den ökade takten på teknologisk utveckling är allaaspekter som direkt påverkar och utmanar företag. Medan det öppnar upp för nya affärsmöjligheter så bidrar det också till ökad konkurrens och större press på företags organisationer. Medan flera traditionella ledningsmodeller är fokuserade på interna aspekter såsom att förbättra processer, minska slöseri och ta bort icke värde-adderande processer, hävdas dynamiska förmågor vara en nyckel till att lyckas i en mer snabbrörlig omgivning. Detta innebär att man inte bara hanterar sin dagliga verksamhet utan också känner av och tar till vara på möjligheter samt förändrar sin organisation i enlighet med dessa. Silicon Valley Modellen (SVM) är en holistisk företagsledningsmodell som ämnar generera dynamiska förmågor för företag i snabbrörliga omgivningar, med syfte att skapa innovation och tillväxt. Den här studien är centrerad kring att identifiera om de fem principer som utgör SVM är anammade i stora multinationella svenska företag som är grundade under den industriella eran. De fem principerna är: 1. Den Dynamiska Firman 2. Individen i Centrum 3. Både-och-Organisation 4. Öppenhet och Nätverkande med Omvärlden 5. Systemansats Genom 14 C-level intervjuer på Telia, Lantmännen, Trelleborg och “Company A” drogs slutsatsen att Telia och Lantmännen har implementerat eller har klara transformationsinitiativ som indikerar på att de rör sig mot att implementera hela SVM. Trelleborg rör sig mot att täcka hela, förutom både-och- organisation som inte hittades under intervjuerna. Det fjärde företaget, anonymt kallat Company A, verkar i en mer stabil tillverkningsindustri men rör sig mot en mer rörlig omgivning. De sågs implementera några principer från modellen, men ansågs inte ha ett holistiskt närmande till SVM. Den gemensamma nämnaren är att de fyra företagen kommer från att ha etablerat tillfredställande effektiva kärnverksamheter och lönsamhetsnivåer innan de skiftat fokus mot tillväxt och innovation.
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D'Amario, Luca. "The Emilia-Romagna region program in Silicon Valley program to support entrepreneurship: goals, experiences and outcomes." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2020.
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The purpose of this research project is to evaluate the impacts of the policies of the Emilia-Romagna region to encourage the development and internationalization of entrepreneurship.
The study beyond this paper, aims to understand and identify the benefits of these programs for the regional ecosystem. and how the transversal competences affects entrepreneurship behaviour.
This explorative research was conducted through the combination of three different approaches:
1. Data, theories and solutions collected on the field through the direct experience in Silicon Valley;
2. Qualitative and quantitative analysis using interview protocols and survey addressed to different actors involved in the ecosystem studied;
3. Support from literature.
Time spent in San Francisco gave me the possibility to better understand the dynamics behind the Silicon Valley work environment and to go into the flow of this unique and inimitable reality.
All this was possible thanks to the university of Bologna and in particular the professor and relator Sobrero Maurizio for the opportunity, support and collaboration during the whole project; the help of Dr. Luppi Elena in the survey construction; Dr. Mattarelli Elisa for the analysis of literature and the precious tips during the study of interview protocols; the collaboration of the regional consortium Art-ER, with the key figures of Mingozzi Irene (Silicon Valley hub manager) and D’Attorre Sara (Europe and international Dept); the availability of USmac and the two co-CEO Alfredo Coppola and Chris Burry for giving me the opportunity to attend the activities during the program in Silicon Valley; least but not last EIT Digital and in particular the CEO Eric Thelen, for the concession of a desk in San Francisco’s offices.
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Sexton, Alexandra Elizabeth. "Eating for the post-Anthropocene : alternative proteins, Silicon Valley and the (bio)politics of food security." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2018. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/eating-for-the-postanthropocene(2e88cc17-8f6f-4f86-9f8f-fdb485ebd0cd).html.
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This thesis explores the emergence of a new generation of alternative proteins (APs) – including cellular agriculture, edible insects and plant-based proteins – that aim to provide more sustainable, healthy and ethical alternatives to conventional livestock products. It examines APs within the broader context of Anthropocenic debates, situating this activity as a reaction to contemporary food-related ‘crises’ and, ultimately, as solutions for global food security. Drawing on interviews, policy analysis and visceral autoethnographic work in the leading hubs of recent AP activity in Europe and the US, the thesis demonstrates how APs both reinforce (‘simulate’) and challenge (‘disrupt’) the existing imaginaries, materialities and political economic factors of the global food system. Through exploring this negotiation between simulation and disruption, the thesis critically examines the enthusiastic and at-times bombastic promissory narratives that have characterised the sector to date. It calls into question to whom and in what ways APs cause disruption, arguing that while they have indeed disturbed the geographies, actors and practices involved in protein production, the political economic underpinnings of the global food system (i.e. inequality, bio-corporatisation, Western-based power) remain largely intact. Drawing on Foucauldian thought, the thesis also argues that APs represent a new site of food biopolitics – introduced as the ‘biopolitics of edibility’ – through which we see a continuation of consumer responsibilisation wherein personal food choice acts as a means for creating a better self and planet. By analysing the material and discursive strategies used to make APs into ‘food’, the thesis also explores these products as an important case for thinking through the material and visceral (bio)politics of eating, as well as the limits of disgust and mistrust posed by food-technology interactions and the precarious relationship between (non)human bodies. Through its theoretical and empirical contributions, the thesis intervenes in critical food geography by bringing together recent debates on the geographies of production and consumption, the material and visceral politics of eating, and the biopolitics of food. It also engages with economic geography and STS theorisations of innovation to think through the material and promissory trajectories that APs have taken to date. Through examining the negotiation of simulation and disruption, the recent AP movement is problematised as both entangled and implicit in politics around ‘good’ eating and the individualised project of Anthropocenic solutions.
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Pang, Jonathan K. (Jonathan Kam). "Towards a new high technology development in the Silicon Valley : a 21st century urban design vision." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78982.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1988.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-88).
Santa Clara Valley, perhaps better known as the Silicon Valley, is currently facing many problems and uncertainties. The explosion of the high technology industry has changed the regional scene faster than anyone could predict The once agriculturally based community has became urbanized overnight. It fostered major growth with many new opportunities but at the same time brought many unforeseen physical and social problems to the region. New employment opportunities led to dramatic increase in population over the past twenty years and consequently, a greater demand in housing. An imbalanced land use distribution has caused limitations in residential land, emphasized the problem of chronic housing shortage and rapidly inflated housing prices. Housing prices in the valley are rising much faster than average household income in the region and is inevitably forcing most of the workers to live outside of the region. Intensive commuting patterns have caused traffic chaos, pollution and a deteriorating living and working environment. Despite the imbalanced land use distribution, for tax base reasons alone, there is still the need to continue planning for more industrial land to accommodate the growing industries. In the heart of Silicon Valley region, San Jose will be the center of future high-tech industrial expansion. This is not only because it contains most of the industrial land available for this kind of development, but also because these sites are located in close proximity to the newly redeveloped CBD and are linked together by a new 20 mile light rail mass transit system and other major planned road networks. Since the manufacturing functions of the hi-tech industry are gradually moving out of the region, it is slowly changing its composition towards a heavier concentration of research, development, marketing, and corporate headquarter functions. This thesis explores for potential forms of future high technology industrial development, and an examines their implications in relationship to future urban form. The objective of this thesis is to envision the future through a hypothesized design in the context of San Jose. By resolving specific issues, the new prototypical design should represent an idealized physical model toward a better living and working environment.
by Jonathan K. Pang.
M.S.
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Zasoba, Ievgeniia. "Migration, Individualism and Dependency| Experiences of Skilled Women from the Former Soviet Union in Silicon Valley." Thesis, San Jose State University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10829111.
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An academic dialog concerning the intersectionality of national origin, economic class and gender, as mutually constitutive elements of migration, set the context for my inquiry into the experiences of wives who are barred from paid labor by their restricted visa status. Guided by grounded theory, I conducted seventeen semi-structured qualitative interviews to examine ways in which a move to Silicon Valley under a restricted visa class changes the self-image of women, and how they evaluate this change. I found that the ambiguous agency construct of women socialized in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras facilitated their choice to migrate despite the visa restrictions. After emigrating, the women tended to embrace values of individualism and self-reliance, which reinforced their professional ambitions. However, the absence of professional options created a split between the women’s lived experiences and their self-representation. In addition, I found that a visa that prohibits employment creates a homogenizing effect on women’s self-images, putting them on similar personal and professional tracks and making their legal and economic status less predictable. These findings suggest that structural strategies might be adopted to help these women reclaim their self-images and exert more control over the selection and pursuit of their goals.
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Hammaoui, Wahiba. "Les imaginaires dans l'industrie : analyse critique et stratégique du modèle californien d'Apple." Thesis, Paris, ENST, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017ENST0041.
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Associer analyse industrielle et imaginaire peut sembler audacieux. C’est la puissance de ce travail de recherche qui propose d’aborder les nouvelles institutions que sont devenus les géants du CaC40 non pas par leur pouvoir financier mais par leur puissance de penser. Une des hypothèses fortes observées après plusieurs années d’expériences professionnelles en France et à l’international dans le domaine de la recherche (Silicon Valley, Stanford University, University of Berkeley, University of California (UCLA)) et de l’industrie, est de défendre que l’industrie pense. Avant même de répondre à la mission qu’on lui attribue, soit de produire, l’industrie compose et diffuse une idéologie. Les industries « classiques » de l’imaginaire s’amplifient et se métamorphosent avec les industries high-tech du logiciel, des jeux vidéo et du web dont Apple est le parangon. Notre sujet prend alors une double dimension théorique et critique, mais aussi industrialo -technique. Ce n’est pas seulement un enjeu heuristique qui l’anime, mais le souci d’analyser un « terrain » de grande actualité et de forte visibilité. Une autre originalité de ce travail stratégique est de proposer une méthode de recherche applicable afin de questionner le monde industriel. Ce travail a permis de constituer un corpus complexe et riche ainsi que de rencontrer de multiples acteurs stratégiques de la Silicon Valley dont le co-fondateur d’Apple Steven Wozniac, Daniel Kottke premier salarié d’Apple, des professeurs californiens comme Fred Turner et des Designers-artistes afin de questionner l’entreprise la plus chère du monde, qui détient autant de richesses que des dizaines d’ÉtatsCombining industrial and imaginary analysis may seem daring. It is the power of this research that proposes to address the new institutions that have become the giants of the CaC40 not by their financial power but by their power of thinking. One of the strong hypotheses observed after several years of professional experience in France and abroad in the field of research (Silicon Valley, Stanford University, University of California, University of California (UCLA)) and industry, is to defend that the industry thinks. Even before responding to the mission attributed to it, to produce, the industry composes and disseminates an ideology. The "classic" industries of the imaginary are amplified and metamorphosed with the high-tech industries of software, video games and the web, of which Apple is the paragon. Our subject then takes on a double dimension, theoretical and critical, but also industrialtechnical. It is not only a heuristic issue that drives it, but the desire to analyze a "terrain" of great relevance and high visibility. Another originality of this strategic work is to propose an applicable research method to question the industrial world. This work has made it possible to build a complex and rich corpus as well as to meet many strategic people in Silicon Valley including Apple co-founder Steven Wozniac, Daniel Kottke, Apple's first employee, Californian professors like Fred Turner and Designers-artists to question the most expensive company in the world, which holds as much wealth as dozens of states
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Carmvall, Louise. "Regional Clustering to support Start-up businesses : - A study on social networks in Gnosjöandan and Silicon Valley -." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Management and Economics, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-6473.
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The report is aimed to stress the support of start-up businesses that exists in the environment of cluster regions. The author will introduce the reader to the conceptions of cluster regions and different shapes of social capital. The empirical study is based on two specific networks operating in two cluster areas – contributing with a broader aspect of the conception of integration. The districts are the region of Gnosjö in southern Sweden and Silicon Valley in southern San Francisco, USA. The author explore relationships between actors within the two networks and highlight two different approaches the networks use dealing with different perspectives as supporting start-up businesses. She emphasizes the importance of nurturing relations in the regional environment, with stand in natural routines and informal meetings. This will be illustrated through examples of intimate interaction in Gnosjöandan and Silicon Valley, through a perspective of regional advantage, facing global markets. The analysis is based on theoretical support with foundation in several themes of conditions for a start-up business to establish on the market. With basis in theoretical frameworks and empirical facts the report has generated an interesting argumentation of critical conditions for establishment of start-up businesses. The discussion is based on different perspectives due to the dissimilar cases used in the study. Consequently, start-up conditions, generated in cluster atmospheres, are highlighted through three interesting aspects.
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Corell, Elsa, and Kristina Pkhikleshvili. "Stockholm Valley; the new Silicon Valley? : - A qualitative research study of organizational resources and capabilities obtained through the Stockholm cluster to create international competitiveness for tech startups." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för marknadsföring (MF), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-85413.
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The purpose of the thesis was to identify the tech startups main organizational resources and capabilities received from the Stockholm cluster. Correspondently, how those encourage to sustained competitive advantage internationally. The aim was to ensure a deeper understanding with a qualitative research method with a multiple case study and an abductive approach. The empirical findings were based on seven case companies that were committing within the tech sector and were internationalized. Further, the literature review takes off with the definition of the segment, namely the tech startups followed by industrial cluster, the network - and social network theory, the Resource-based view with concertation on the different firms’ resources, the VRIO framework, and capabilities, and thereby internationalization including international competitiveness. The conceptual framework has illustrated the correlation between investigated variables, mentioned above. Moreover, the empirical findings chapter was constituted of primary data presented by the seven companies. The analysis was established on the basis of the three voices, which are theoretical, empirical and authors to examine contrast and correlation with each other. The analysis part was followed by a conclusion chapter that presented the main findings/conclusions, thus answered the research question. In addition, the chapter provided with implications, , limitation and recommendations for future research. The findings displayed that the main organizational resources and capabilities obtained from Stockholm consist of human and financial capital, alliances and relationships, innovation/technology and reputation. However, they are only three of them that bring sustained competitive advantage, which are the human capital, alliance and relationships, and reputation capability.
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Eklund, Joakim, and Fred Isaksson. "Leveraging a third-party association in Silicon Valley : Conceptualising Born Global Firm processes for Innovation & Internationalisation." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-355099.
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The academic society have in the recent past addressed the current ecosystem for new and existing business as a knowledge society. An era of globalisation and advanced technologies, where tacit knowledge has become an essential commodity for all firms in all industries looking to maintain a competitive level of productivity. Consequently, a substantial number of young companies are emerging worldwide with an exogenous approach of receiving knowledge as input in their process of being innovative. They leverage externalities rather than internal research and development. A suggested way of doing this is by utilising the natural advantages and values of an area, often remote from their country of residence. In this study, we suggest that this seeking of regions dense in innovative activity gives rise to young companies performing of international operations. We presume that business is becoming increasingly borderless, and assume the perspective of companies with innate international ambitions, born global firms. We suggest that the reason for early international activity varies from seeking new foreign markets to merely gaining from the input of outside expertise in offshore areas, dense in innovative activities. Following, we use the case of a local third-party association, namely the Nordic Innovation House in Silicon Valley to partly study why and how firms leverage values in the area and further the role of the association. This is done in the context of streamlining innovative and international activity. Findings verify that seeking knowledge as input in the process of innovation is a driving force to international activities. Allowing for interesting connections between previously separated concepts. Furthermore, we account for how a firm leverages the natural advantages and values of an spatially defined area. Finally, we confirm that being able to connect with the right people and gaining relevant knowledge is done with considerably more ease and to a significantly lower cost with the help of a third-party association. Consequently, the firms exhibited accelerated and more efficient processes of innovation and internationalisation.
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Waters, Kyle J. "The Impact of Non-stop Flights to Silicon Valley on Raising Venture Capital in the U.S. and Abroad." Thesis, Boston College, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108081.
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Thesis advisor: Donald CoxDoes being a non-stop flight away from Silicon Valley help entrepreneurs access venture capital? With its abundance of researchers and investors, Silicon Valley leads the world in entrepreneurship. In Silicon Valley, venture capital investors (VCs) and startups benefit from proximity, forming strong relationships and meeting frequently in person. VCs often choose to focus their operations locally, bringing down the costs of monitoring investments. Not all entrepreneurs can locate themselves in this global hub and without a direct connection to Silicon Valley some may find it difficult to tap into the extensive resources clustered in the region. I show that startups operating in cities with non-stop connections to Silicon Valley benefit immensely from direct flights. I find that this connection matters more for cities outside the U.S. A new daily flight from Silicon Valley to an international city leads to $23 million of additional VC raised by startups in the region
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2018
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Departmental Honors
Discipline: Economics
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DeGenova, Don. "Silicon valley north the development of a high-technology industrial base in the regional municipality of Ottawa-Carleton." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/4622.
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Andersson, Rebecca, and Caroline Hansson. "Venture capital bolag och startups i Stockholmsområdet och Silicon Valley - En studie om relationen och resursers upplevda värde." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Örebro Universitet, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-47810.
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Cotterill, Keith. "How do attitudes of habitual high-technology entrepreneurs to early-stage failure differ in Silicon Valley, Cambridge and Munich?" Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/244653.
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Entrepreneurs develop new technology ventures in uncertain conditions with unproven technologies and limited resources. The majority of such ventures fail, yet entrepreneurship is regarded as a national (and regional) engine for economic growth. This thesis aims to examine entrepreneurs’ attitudes to failure in order to reveal insight on how entrepreneurs learn and how they identify subsequent opportunities, and investigate possible regional differences in such attitudes and entrepreneurial responses. There is much literature on entrepreneurial failure but relatively little that is focused on attitudes to failure, the high-technology industry, or international comparisons. This thesis examines how entrepreneurs’ attitudes to failure in early-stage technology companies differ in the USA (Silicon Valley), UK (Cambridge) and Germany (Munich), and implications for entrepreneurial learning and opportunity identification in these regions. Interviews with habitual entrepreneurs explore their experiences of failed ventures, using a methodology from qualitative psychology - Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) - for the gathering and analysis of data to reveal emergent trends. This analysis is then used to compare attitudes to failure within and between each region, and a preliminary conceptual framework is proposed for analyzing future experiences of entrepreneurial failure. Findings from this idiographic study suggest that although each entrepreneur’s experience of and attitudes to failure is unique, there are more commonalities than differences between regions. Furthermore, these findings reveal the importance of the use of language and narrative in the analysis of such accounts. In addition, the results allow reflection on the appropriateness and limitations of methodologies such as IPA for this subject. This thesis contributes to theory by examining ‘effectuation’ as a way to understand these experiences, and discussing the impact of findings in relation to attribution theory, prospect theory and real-options theory. This thesis contributes to practice by augmenting existing knowledge of entrepreneurial failure through the comparative (regional) approach and the industry-specific (high-technology) focus. It may also improve the preparedness of new practitioners and entrepreneurs, with positive implications for future entrepreneurial success.
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Salazar, Salame Héctor. "Worker rights protection in Mexico's Silicon Valley : confronting low-road labor practices in high-tech manufacturing through antagonistic collaboration." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69456.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-109).
Front and center against a backdrop of globalization and the ensuing outsourcing of manufacturing activities to low-income countries, has been a growing interest from scholars regarding the protection of labor rights and the means for improving labor conditions in the developing world. In the past half-decade, scholars have paid greater attention to these issues in the electronics manufacturing industry, particularly in response to recent publications highlighting its onerous working conditions around the globe. Yet, research regarding how specific actors contribute to improving working conditions in this sector remains largely absent. This thesis contributes to these scholarly discussions by analyzing the work of a local NGO, the Centro de Refleccidn y Accidn Laboral (CEREAL-GDL), which has been working to improve working conditions in the electronics manufacturing cluster known as Mexico's Silicon Valley located in Guadalajara for over a decade. Specifically, this thesis analyzes how the organization has evolved its activities over time and the local and international relationships it has developed to protect worker labor rights and promote working condition improvements in this sector. This thesis argues that the organization does not fold neatly into the molds within which scholars typically place and analyze the efforts of developing-country labor rights NGOs. These molds include participation in transnational advocacy and the monitoring of private codes of conduct (COC). While notably CEREAL-GDL was an indirect, yet central, actor in the birth of transnational advocacy related to the global electronics industry, which consequently led to global electronics industry firms establishing the first industry-wide COC, its efforts are not limited to participating in transnational advocacy or related to direct monitoring of firm adherence to the COC. Moreover, in addition to confrontational strategies such as organizing workers, CEREAL-GDL participates in an institutionalized direct dialogue and labor violations remediation process developed through antagonistic collaboration with electronics firms in Guadalajara. Ultimately, by analyzing the organization's activities and the interrelated web of actors and the context in which it operates, this thesis explores how and why there have been some working condition improvements, and whether the forged relationships among actors in Mexico's Silicon Valley may lead to future improvements, and, if so, how.
by Héctor Salazar Salame.
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Hammaoui, Wahiba. "Les imaginaires dans l'industrie : analyse critique et stratégique du modèle californien d'Apple." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris, ENST, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017ENST0041.
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Associer analyse industrielle et imaginaire peut sembler audacieux. C’est la puissance de ce travail de recherche qui propose d’aborder les nouvelles institutions que sont devenus les géants du CaC40 non pas par leur pouvoir financier mais par leur puissance de penser. Une des hypothèses fortes observées après plusieurs années d’expériences professionnelles en France et à l’international dans le domaine de la recherche (Silicon Valley, Stanford University, University of Berkeley, University of California (UCLA)) et de l’industrie, est de défendre que l’industrie pense. Avant même de répondre à la mission qu’on lui attribue, soit de produire, l’industrie compose et diffuse une idéologie. Les industries « classiques » de l’imaginaire s’amplifient et se métamorphosent avec les industries high-tech du logiciel, des jeux vidéo et du web dont Apple est le parangon. Notre sujet prend alors une double dimension théorique et critique, mais aussi industrialo -technique. Ce n’est pas seulement un enjeu heuristique qui l’anime, mais le souci d’analyser un « terrain » de grande actualité et de forte visibilité. Une autre originalité de ce travail stratégique est de proposer une méthode de recherche applicable afin de questionner le monde industriel. Ce travail a permis de constituer un corpus complexe et riche ainsi que de rencontrer de multiples acteurs stratégiques de la Silicon Valley dont le co-fondateur d’Apple Steven Wozniac, Daniel Kottke premier salarié d’Apple, des professeurs californiens comme Fred Turner et des Designers-artistes afin de questionner l’entreprise la plus chère du monde, qui détient autant de richesses que des dizaines d’ÉtatsCombining industrial and imaginary analysis may seem daring. It is the power of this research that proposes to address the new institutions that have become the giants of the CaC40 not by their financial power but by their power of thinking. One of the strong hypotheses observed after several years of professional experience in France and abroad in the field of research (Silicon Valley, Stanford University, University of California, University of California (UCLA)) and industry, is to defend that the industry thinks. Even before responding to the mission attributed to it, to produce, the industry composes and disseminates an ideology. The "classic" industries of the imaginary are amplified and metamorphosed with the high-tech industries of software, video games and the web, of which Apple is the paragon. Our subject then takes on a double dimension, theoretical and critical, but also industrialtechnical. It is not only a heuristic issue that drives it, but the desire to analyze a "terrain" of great relevance and high visibility. Another originality of this strategic work is to propose an applicable research method to question the industrial world. This work has made it possible to build a complex and rich corpus as well as to meet many strategic people in Silicon Valley including Apple co-founder Steven Wozniac, Daniel Kottke, Apple's first employee, Californian professors like Fred Turner and Designers-artists to question the most expensive company in the world, which holds as much wealth as dozens of states
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Sardiello, Tiziana. "Playing the Matching Game : An Institutional Analysis of Executive Recruitment and Selection in Software Start-ups: Silicon Valley and Stockholm." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-61829.
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Software start-ups make media headlines daily, suggesting that it may take only a garage and two engineering students to begin such companies, and that these same people will constitute the core of the executive team until these organizations become multinational giants. Despite these spontaneous starts, newly formed entrepreneurial ventures have many obstacles to overcome in their resource and cultural environments when establishing their practices. These obstacles vary depending on the local institutional contexts and can exert relevant pressures on how, where and why start-ups recruit and select certain candidates for their executive teams. Based on interviews conducted in Silicon Valley and Stockholm with 40 key hiring and intermediary actors – entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, board directors, CEOs and executive recruiters - the general aim of this work is that of disclosing step-by-step the process of executive recruitment and selection in start-ups. At the same time, this study seeks to analyze how institutional environments, through the actions of states, governments, universities, professional associations and society in general, shape start-up practices. Finally, the work aims at testing the explanatory power of institutional theories in sociology. The analysis of the interviews shows that different local institutional environments differently and crucially shape organizational actors' interests, roles and patterns of behavior when constructing their practices. Two distinct ideal-typical dominant logics surface among key actors in the two geographical contexts. On one side, Silicon Valley actors recruit and select their executives by using a business logic based on an efficiency rationale. On the other side, Stockholm actors make use of a personal logic based on a rationale of cultural fit when calculating which specific candidate better matches a certain executive position.
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Sipola, S. (Sakari). "Understanding growth and non-growth in entrepreneurial economies:analysis of startup industries and experimental winner generation in Finland, Israel and Silicon Valley." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2015. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789526208138.
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Abstract The importance of high-growth firms for job creation is widely acknowledged and the promotion of such firms is a key area of industry policy in developed countries. However, despite the substantial development of firm growth research and the significant public investments, in many geographies the assumed good preconditions for high-growth entrepreneurship are not producing the desired results. The purpose of this study is to increase understanding of the emergence of high-growth startups by taking a systemic view of firm growth. Instead of examining individual firms, a high-growth startup focused systemic economic actor, defined as the startup industry, is taken as the research object. The startup industry is given a certain function in economic development and resource allocation, and its processual activity in particular contexts is examined under the experimental winner generation process. Critical realism is used for systemic reasoning of firm growth. The empirical study focuses on case startup industries of Finland, Israel and Silicon Valley. The emergence of startup-related actor structures and institutions, and their functioning is analyzed first from a cultural-historical and processual perspective. Second, the organization of the experimental winner generation process and its outcomes for each case are analyzed over a period of several decades, and a cross-case comparison is conducted between the cases. The results of the study propose that each startup industry develops in time a particular target for its activities. This target, defined as the perceived winner, is the key for alignment and functioning of the startup industry as a whole. Examination of this concept enables us to understand the logics of the firm growth at the wider system level and on that basis to suggest some key determinants of the performance of startup industries in the long run. The discussion of policy maker implications concludes the studyTiivistelmä Kasvuyritykset ovat tärkeitä uusien työpaikkojen synnyttäjiä, ja teollistuneissa maissa niiden tukeminen on teollisuuspolitiikan keskiössä. Huolimatta laajasta yritysten kasvun tutkimustiedosta, merkittävistä julkisista investoinneista ja oletetuista hyvistä lähtökohdista kasvuyrittäjyydelle ei monella maantieteellisellä alueella kuitenkaan synny panostukseen verrattuna tarpeeksi kasvuyrityksiä. Tämä väitöskirja tutkii nopeasti kasvavien startup-yritysten syntymistä systeemisestä näkökulmasta. Yksittäisten yritysten sijaan tutkimuksessa määritellään tutkimuskohteeksi startup-teollisuus, kasvuhakuisiin startup-yrityksiin keskittyvä systeeminen talouden toimija, jolle annetaan tietty tehtävä talouden kehityksessä ja resurssiallokaatiossa. Startup-teollisuuden toimintaa eri konteksteissa tarkastellaan kokeellisen voittajayritysten rakentamisen prosessin avulla. Yritysten kasvua lähestytään lisäksi kriittisen realismin mukaisen kausaliteetin pohjalta. Tutkimuksen empiirinen osuus on toteutettu tapaustutkimuksena, jossa analysoidaan Suomen, Israelin ja Piilaakson startup-teollisuutta. Tutkimuskohteiden startup-yrityksiin liittyvien toimijarakenteiden ja instituutioiden kehitystä ja toimintaa analysoidaan kulttuuri-historiallisesta ja prosessuaalisesta näkökulmasta. Lisäksi kokeellisen voittajayritysten rakentamisen prosessin organisointia ja lopputuloksia analysoidaan usean vuosikymmenen ajalta sekä tapauskohtaisesti että niiden välillä. Tutkimustulokset esittävät kunkin startup-teollisuuden kehittävän ajan myötä tietyn kohteen omalle toiminnalleen. Tämä kohde, näkemys voittavasta startup-yrityksestä, linjaa koko startup-teollisuuden toimintaa. Tutkimalla tätä näkemystä voimme ymmärtää yritysten kasvun logiikoita systeemisellä tasolla, mikä mahdollistaa startup-teollisuuksien välisten rakenteellisten- ja suorituskykyerojen ymmärtämisen pitkällä aikavälillä. Tutkimuksen lopussa esitetään johtopäätöksiä poliittisen päätöksenteon kannalta
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Abittan, Yoni. "La dynamique de confiance dans un écosystème d’innovation : une comparaison internationale entre la Silicon Valley, Israël, le Maroc et la France." Versailles-St Quentin en Yvelines, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013VERS043S.
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Dans le contexte actuel de mondialisation, les territoires (Veltz, 2000) sont devenus un terrain d’action propice aux acteurs de l’innovation. Ces acteurs s’organisent en réseau (Assens, Bouchikhi, 1998) et forment un écosystème d’innovation (Moore, 1996) qui se cristallise autour des clusters, notamment la Silicon Valley, cluster de référence (Porter, 1990 ; Weil, 1996). Dans ces écosystèmes où l’innovation est dite “ouverte“ (Chesbrough, 2003), la fertilisation croisée entre acteurs nécessite une dynamique relationnelle qui repose sur une relation de confiance (Zucker, 1986 ; Loilier et Tellier, 2005). Nous proposons d’étudier dans cette recherche la dynamique relationnelle d’un écosystème d’innovation à partir de la grille théorique sur la confiance de Zucker (1986) en 3 points : la confiance intuitu personae, la confiance relationnelle et la confiance institutionnelle. Pour mener à bien cette recherche, nous mobilisons une méthodologie qualitative (Glaser et Strauss, 1967) en étudiant 4 cas: la Silicon Valley, Israël, le Maroc et la France. Nos résultats montrent tout d’abord que l’innovation requiert de la confiance et que les trois types de confiance de notre grille de lecture s’enchevêtrent au sein des écosystèmes d’innovation dans le cadre des projets d’innovation (Grabher, 2002). Aussi, nous décrivons les limites de la proximité géographique et l’importance de la proximité électronique dans le processus d’innovation. L’implication de la diaspora dans ces écosystèmes est également soulevée. Notre recherche nous a permis d’identifier des “hommes-orchestres“ garants de la confiance entre l’environnement interne et externe des écosystèmes d’innovation. Nous exposons pour finir quelques bonnes pratiques de management d’un écosystème d’innovation et les limites de la confianceIn the current context of globalization, territories became a suitable field of action for the different stakeholders in the innovation landscape. These stakeholders interact through networks (Assens, Bouchikhi, 1998) and shape an innovation ecosystem (Moore, 1996) like Silicon Valley, one of the kell-known cluster in the world (Porter, 1990 ; Weil, 1996). In these ecosystems in which innovation is open (Chesbrough, 2003), cross-fertilization between stakeholders require a relationnal dynamics based on mutual trust (Zucker, 1986 ; Loilier & Tellier, 2005). This research aims to analyze the relationnal dynamics of an innovation ecosystem using theoretical background of trust developed by Zucker (1986) through three forms : characteristic-based trust, process-based trust and institution-based trust. We mobilize a qualitative methodology (Glaser and Strauss, 1967) based on the analysis of 4 case studies : Silicon Valley, Israel, Morocco and France. Our results highlight that innovation is a matter of trust and especially a combination of these three forms of trust in the innovation projects (Grabher, 2002). In addition, the limits of geographical proximity and the important role of electronic proximity are exposed. The involvement of diaspora in the innovation ecosystem is also pointed out as well as the role of “boundary spanners“ as go-betweens or third parties who enable the networking between internal and external environment. We conclude our work by presenting some best practices stemming from the analysis of the 4 innovation ecosystems and limits of trust in the innovation strategies of ecosystems
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Thixton, Sofie C. "Evaluating Effects of Non-Compete Agreements on Entrepreneurship." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/738.
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What specific factors contribute to Silicon Valley’s world-renowned success as a high technology district? How significant is California’s rejection of specific regulation restricting the mobility of technical professionals via the nullification of all non-compete agreements? Using in-depth interviews with entrepreneurs seeking to start their own companies, I argue that the ability to effectively ignore non-compete agreements in Silicon Valley is a critical yet understudied premise underlying Silicon Valley’s success. Scholars seeking to understand Silicon Valley’s global success and continuing allure must turn their attention to the effects of this regulation. My findings suggest that an analysis not only of these regulations but of the lack of enforcement around such regulations needs to be a central focus in understanding how Silicon Valley emerged as a high technological powerhouse.
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Dullius, Andréia Cristina. "As capacidades de inovação em Startups : um estudo no Vale do Silício." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/143320.
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Startups surgem com o intuito de explorar comercialmente uma ideia de potencial inovador. Para isso, necessitam de um conjunto de capacidades técnicas e de negócios, alocando recursos de modo eficiente para obter um produto com valor de mercado. Elas necessitam, portanto, tornar-se firmas e executar um modelo de negócios. Nesse processo, muitas startups fracassam, enquanto outras atingem um bom desempenho e conseguem realizar a oferta pública de ações (IPO), ou mesmo vender o negócio. Torna-se crucial, então, identificar quais são os conjuntos de capacidades necessários para o sucesso e a sobrevivência das startups. Enquanto firmas possuem diferentes arranjos de quatro capacidades de inovação, nomeadamente as capacidades de desenvolvimento, de operação, de gestão e de transação, o assunto ainda é pouco investigado em startups. Isso posto, este estudo tem por objetivo identificar como se configuram as capacidades de inovação em startups. Para alcançar esse objetivo foi realizado um estudo exploratório de abordagem qualitativa no Vale do Silício, no qual foram entrevistadas 11 startups de base tecnológica e 7 profissionais com conhecimentos na área. O estudo evidenciou que startups não possuem as quatro capacidades de inovação, mas necessitam desenvolvê-las a fim de comercializar um bem/serviço no mercado, tornandose firmas. Enquanto as capacidades de desenvolvimento e a de transação são as primeiras a serem desenvolvidas (sendo as mais desenvolvidas), as capacidades de operação e de gestão necessitam ser desenvolvidas à medida que o negócio se expande. O aprendizado por startups também foi identificado como relevante para a construção das capacidades de inovação, processo no qual o rico ecossistema do Vale do Silício desempenha um papel fundamental. Embora esse ecossistema seja importante, a seleção e aplicação dos conhecimentos externos na construção de tais capacidades é uma tarefa que cabe apenas à startup. Evidenciaram-se também os diferentes arranjos de capacidades que podem levar à venda, transformação em firma e fracasso das startups. A principal contribuição teórica do presente estudo foi avaliar, em um único estudo, não apenas capacidades de cunho tecnológico, mas também operacionais, gerenciais e transacionais em startups, destacando sua importância para o sucesso do negócio. Uma segunda contribuição está em evidenciar, por meio da perspectiva da firma, que conhecimentos amplamente disponíveis no ecossistema podem ser irrelevantes para a startup se não forem aplicados adequadamente no desenvolvimento das capacidades. Como contribuição gerencial evidencia-se a necessidade de avaliar o desempenho da startup por meio de métricas, não negligenciando a importância da gestão. Às instituições governamentais sugere-se uma maior ênfase na cobrança de resultados das startups.Startups are created to commercially explore an ideia with innovative potential. To do so, they need a set of technical and business capabilities, efficiently allocating resources to obtain a product with market value. They need, in such an understanding, to become firms and execute a business model. While searching for such a business model, a high percentage of startups fail, while others perform well and reach the initial public offering (IPO), or even sell the business. It seems crucial, then, to identify which capability arrangements are required for the success and the survival of startups. While firms have different arrangements of four innovation capabilities, namely development capability, operation capabillity, management capability and transaction capability, the issue is still under-researched for startups. That being said, this study aims to identify how innovation capabilities are arranged in startups. To accomplish that, an exploratory study with a qualitative approach was performed in Silicon Valley, in which 11 startups and 7 knowledgeable professionals related to the field were interviewed. It was found that startups do not have the four innovation capabilities, but need to develop them in order to transact goods/services in the market, allowing them to become firms. While the development capability and the transaction capability are the first developed by the startup (and also the most developed ones), the operation and management capabilities need to be developed once the business starts to grow. Learning by startups was also identified as relevant to the construction of their innovation capabilities, in which the rich ecosystem in Silicon Valley plays a key role. Although the importance of such an ecosystem, the selection and application of such external information into the construction of such capabilities is a task that can only be performed by the startup. Different arrangements of innovation capabilities were also identified, that might lead a startup to be sold, to turn into a firm or to follow a failure path. The main theoretical contribution was to evaluate, in a single study, not only technological capabilities, but also operational, management and transactional capabilities in startups, highlighting their importance to the startups’ sucess. A second contribution relies in identifying, through the lenses of the theory of the firm, that knowledge widely available in the ecosystem might be irrelevant to the startup if not properly applied in the development of capabilities. As a managerial contribution, the study highlights the need to evaluate the startup performance through metrics, without neglecting the importance of management. It is also suggested that governmental institutions should put a higher emphasis in demanding results from startups.
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Smith, Jennifer A. "Potential Bias in Early-Stage Venture Capital Funding." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/892.
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This analysis examines the impact that personal characteristics like gender, race, years participating in the labor force, education, and previous entrepreneurship have on the amount of funding a startup receives from venture capital investors. Data for the analysis is taken from online venture capital database, Crunchbase, and includes investments made by venture capitalists between the years of 2002 and 2014. Findings from the regression analysis conclude that gender, the number of years a founder has been in the labor force, and a founder’s education background are significant determinants of the amount of funding a company receives in funding rounds. In addition, the sector the company falls under and the venture capital firms that the company seeks investment from are both significant determinants of the amount of funding received by the company and the founder.
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于玥 and Yue Yu. "The influence of CEO characteristics and government financial support on management control system sophistication in high-tech industries : empirical evidence from China's Silicon Valley." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/193059.
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China’s investments in R&D are forecast to surpass those of the US in 2022, thereby attracting capital, innovation and a large number of returnee managers. In the past eight years alone, the number of returnees has increased five-fold, with the country’s high-tech parks, particularly Beijing’s Z-Park, also known as China’s Silicon Valley or the Silicon Valley of the East, proving considerable attractions. In this context, in which start-ups are vital for economic growth and for the further development of Chinese investments in leading-edge innovation, understanding how the significant cultural differences between returnee and local managers affect management control systems (MCS) is of key importance.
Drawing on a survey of more than 200 companies and data from 435 one-to-one interviews, this study investigates the relationship between CEO characteristics, government financial support and MCS sophistication in the context of fast-growing high-tech enterprises in China’s Silicon Valley. The study develops an MCS sophistication index as an aggregate measure of six main factors (the importance of MCS to the firm, system structure, system operations, system completeness, frequency of use and the level of data aggregation), and measures MCS sophistication by 46 individual management control subsystems.
The study predicts and verifies a positive relationship between CEO and firm international exposure and between CEO education and the level of MCS sophistication. It also predicts and verifies a positive relationship between government financial support and MCS sophistication in a context in which privately held and managed venture capital and banks provide such support.
The study further analyses the interaction effect of government financial support and CEO characteristics on MCS sophistication. Its empirical findings suggest that, despite their cultural differences, neither local nor returnee managers feel the need for better MCS. Only when there is potential access to government funding do returnee managers have better tools to implement more sophisticated MCS than their local counterparts, thus underlining how international work experience provides Chinese managers with the tools, but not the mindset, for superior MCS.
Most previous studies focus on listed companies in China, whereas this study constitutes one of the first to focus on start-ups using an extensive array of data. It also contributes to the definition of a more systematic MCS sophistication measure, thus allowing more complete analysis of MCS at the firm level. Improving upon previous studies, the research reported herein also encompasses a large set of CEO characteristics to analyse their interaction with government financial support, thereby contributing to a better understanding of MCS in a key area of China’s future development.published_or_final_version
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Mullen, Regina O. "Drought Measures and The Coffee Girl: A Creative Writing Thesis." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1151.
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Based in the modern day San Francisco Bay Area, these two stories intend to utilize “outsider”-labeled protagonists to portray de-familiarized accounts of two specific Bay Area realities.
“Drought Measures” depicts a new student at a diverse and de-facto segregated public high school, following her as she learns to navigate the unspoken status quo of a long-entrenched racial divide. This story is neither a commentary on nor a critique of contemporary racial issues, but rather a portrayal of some of the many ways in which socioeconomic status and race inform day-to-day interactions. Half-Spanish, the protagonist is confronted with the paradox of being too white-passing in certain contexts, and not white-passing enough in others.
“The Coffee Girl” strives to explore the way in which various trivialities of status – appearance, dress, the perceived value of one’s job – become toxic and inflated once deemed important. Though the issue of status is certainly not unique to the Bay Area, the influence of Silicon Valley, Sand Hill Road, (etc.) can lead to a narrow definition of what it means to be successful. Occupying a perceived “menial” job, the protagonist serves to provide an outsider perspective on a white-collar event, and to illustrate how this disparity of status can breed insecurity within a relationship, limiting its ability to function. As a café employee, she finds it particularly difficult to navigate the vague norms and boundaries of modern-day dating from a position of lower occupational status.
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Grondeau, Alexandre. "Contribution à une géographie critique des territoires de haute technologie." Paris 10, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA100166.
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Après un rappel théorique des enjeux de l’étude des technopôles et des cyberdistricts, cette thèse revient sur les trois principales évolutions de la géographie des territoires de haute technologie depuis quinze ans. D’abord, les territoires précurseurs possèdent désormais une histoire riche en enseignements. Ils ont notamment traversé les crises avec plus ou moins de réussite et l’étude de leur capacité à rebondir peut et doit être éclairante à plus d’un titre. L’étude théorique de la Silicon Valley permet de faire un bilan de cette histoire et de la littérature scientifique qui a trait au sujet. Ensuite, la reproduction de ces territoires précurseurs a été initiée à la fin des années 60 dans les pays développés, et à partir de la moitié des années 80 dans certains pays en voie de développement. Les succès ont été divers mais les enseignements sont nombreux, notamment en ce qui concerne la pertinence d’un modèle urbain qui semble atteindre ses limites. Les cas de Sophia-Antipolis, au Nord, et de Bangalore, au Sud, nous permettent d’évaluer cette reproduction. Enfin, l’apparition, au début des années 90, de « cyberdistricts » au cœur des grandes métropoles ou mégapoles a pris le contre-pied de ce que l’on pouvait observer jusqu’alors. Ils semblent offrir une alternative crédible à un modèle situant les technopôles en périphérie des métropoles. L’étude de la Silicon Alley à New York et du Silicon Sentier à Paris sont les deux études de cas qui permettront de vérifier cette hypothèse. La mise à jour de la géographie des territoires de haute technologie est également l’occasion de revenir sur les notions de réseaux, sur les rapports entre proximité spatiale et social, et sur les politiques publiques en faveur de l’innovationThis doctoral thesis first recalls the theoretical stakes of the study of technopols and cyberdistricts before getting back to the 3 main evolutions of high tech territories geography since 15 years. First, the seniority of precursory territories entails a history rich of lessons. Such territories have notably crossed several crisises with more of less of success and the study of their capacity to spring to life again may and must be enlightening in several respects. The theoretical study of Silicon Valley enables to draw an assessement of such history and of the scientific literature relating to the subject. Furthermore, the reproduction of the precursory territories has been initiated at the end of the 60’s in developed countries and as from the middle of the 80’s in some developing countries. The succeses have been various. However they have entailed a lot of lessons, notably regarding the relevance of the urban model which seems reaching its limits. The case of Sophia-Antipolis in North countries and of Bangalore in South countries enable to assess such reproduction. Finally, the occurrence, at the end of the 90’s, of cyberdistricts in the heart of big metropolises or megalopolises breaks with what was previously observed. Such cyberdistricts seem to offer a credible alternative to a model situating the technopols in metropolises’ periphery. The study of Silicon Alley in New York and of Silicon Sentier in Paris are the two cases which will enable to verify such hypothesis. The update of geography of high tech territories is also an occasion to get back the notions of networks, on the relations between spatial and social proximity and on public policies in favor of innovation
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Cottin, Arredondo Randall Ismael, and Enzo Garry. "The Venture Capital behavioral bias and the ecosystem investment flows : A comparative quantitative study about the relationship between Venture Capitalist's drivers and their investment behavior in Stockholm and Silicon Valley." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-137128.
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The purpose of this study is to test if there is bias in the Venture Capital investment decision-making process towards ecosystems. To guide the research and ensure the fulfillment of the study’s main purpose, we will analyze two specific ecosystems (Stockholm and Silicon Valley). This choice is motivated by their respective importance (Worldwide and Nordics reference) in the global entrepreneurial landscape. The aim is to make an empirical contribution regarding how a herding behavior from Venture Capital investments can drive irrational investment flows towards specific ecosystem such a Silicon Valley, regardless available information towards other ecosystems, in this case, Stockholm. Most researches until today have been focusing on the assessment of startup-focused factors which we believe only picture partly the attractiveness of a startup ecosystem. In our perception, environmental factors in which the ecosystem take place also play an essential role in the attractiveness of an ecosystem to invest in. Is there a behavioral bias in the investment decision processes of Venture Capital regarding startup ecosystems? To assess the presence or absence of a behavioral bias in the investment decision of Venture Capital investors, we are first going to establish an objective attractiveness score using environment-based factors. These factors are going to be combined into six main variables that picture the environmental attractiveness of both ecosystems. In a second time, we are going to submit these six variables to two populations of investors operating in each ecosystem. To do so, we will operate a quantitative study of Stockholm and Silicon Valley-localized private Venture Capital investors towards our different environmental variable. This will enable us to obtain their specific drivers toward these variables and therefore adapt our objective attractiveness scores to obtain weighted attractiveness scores. In a third time, we are going to compare our obtained weighted attractiveness scores per ecosystem with the investment flows effectuated respectively in both ecosystems in 2016. To be able to compare both settings on the same range, we are going to calculate both investment flow data: investment volumes and number of deal closed per capita. The results of this comparison will then bring us either a correlation relation between weighted attractiveness and investment flows per capita for both ecosystems, infirming our theory or a non-correlative relation, which would confirm our theory. Indeed, a non- correlative relation will show that investors do no follow a rational investment behavior based only on the attractiveness of their ecosystem.
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McLaughlin, Logan M. "Understanding Road Use and Road User Interaction: An Exploratory Ethnographic Study Toward the Design of Autonomous Vehicles." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849632/.
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This thesis contributes to research that informs the design of autonomous vehicles (AVs). It examines interactions among various types of road users, such as pedestrians and drivers, and describes how findings can contribute to the design of AVs. The work was undertaken as part of a research internship at Nissan Research Center-Silicon Valley on the Human Understanding in Design team. Methods included video ethnography “travel-alongs” which captured the experience of travel from the point of view of drivers and pedestrians, analysis of interaction patterns taken from video of intersections, and analysis of road laws. Findings address the implications of what it will mean for AVs to exist as social entities in a world of varied road contexts, and how AVs might navigate the social act of driving on roads they share with a variety of human users. This thesis contributes to an emerging body of research and application on the subject of the AV in the world.
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Eno-Adams, Inibehe. "Strategies for Improving Technology Startup Capital." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6013.
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Funding is one of the most critical resources high potential technology startup (HPTS) ventures need to achieve success. Some startup founders lack access to capital, a critical resource for HPTS founders to create value for customers and capture value for their organizations. Capital constraints can hinder business performance, endanger growth and the ability to grow and scale into the global markets. This multiple case study explored the strategies HPTS firms used to access capital to grow and scale into global markets. Mishra's venture capital investment model and Blank's customer development model served as the conceptual framework for this study. Data were collected from semistructured face-to-face interviews, direct observations, member checking, and a reflective journal. Participants were selected using a purposive sampling of 5 founders from the Silicon Valley of California, who were involved in equity finance decisions in the last 5 years. Yin's 5-step data analysis plan was used in the final data analysis. Eight themes emerged from the study: capital constraint; identification of potential investors; collaboration, guidance, and support; investment potential; investment thesis; measurement of success; passion and preparedness; and prevention of stock dilution. The findings of this study have implications for positive social change. HPTS ventures can use the study findings to gain approval of investment proposals and increase ventures that create value for customers and for the organizations.
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Piqué, Huerta Josep Miquel. "Understanding the urban development and the evolution of the Ecosystems of Innovation." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/665076.
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Aquesta tesi doctoral és un compendi de publicacions en el camp dels Ecosistemes d’Innovació. Aquests articles es basen en els marcs conceptuals del model de la Triple Helix, el paradigma del Knowledge Based Urban Development, Clusters of Innovation i el Model de Cicle de Vida d'una start-up.
Aquesta tesi pretén contribuir a la comprensió dels projectes de revitalització de les àrees metropolitanes i l'evolució dels Ecosistemes d’Innovació. Mitjançant un enfocament del mètode del cas, aquest treball ha explorat quatre revitalitzacions urbanes brasileres, l'evolució del Districte d'Innovació 22@Barcelona i l'evolució de l'ecosistema San Francisco-Silicon Valley. A partir d'aquests casos, es poden extreure diverses implicacions. Des del punt de vista acadèmic, el model Quintuple Helix i la teoria del Knowledge Based Urban Development (KBUD) proporcionen un marc adequat per descriure els processos de revitalització que s'han analitzat. Des de la perspectiva dels responsables polítics en la revitalització urbana, aquest treball pot inspirar a altres ciutats que vulguin transformar àrees industrials antigues (transformació de brownfields) en nuclis econòmics, socialment conscients, creatius i basats en el coneixement. Aquest estudi suggereix proposar una perspectiva holística del paper de les Universitats, la Indústria i el Govern que inclou les especificitats locals en els processos de revitalització en la dimensió urbana, econòmica, social i de govern, i una nova perspectiva per a teoritzar l'evolució de les Àrees d'Innovació (AOI) des de l’inici fins a la maduresa.Esta tesis de doctorado es un compendio de publicaciones en el campo de los Ecosistemas de Innovación. Estos artículos se basan en los marcos conceptuales del modelo de Triple Helix, el paradigma Knowledge Based Urban Development, Clusters of Innovation y el Modelo del Ciclo de Vida de una start-up. Esta tesis pretende contribuir a la comprensión de los proyectos de revitalización de áreas metropolitanas y la evolución de los Ecosistemas de Innovación. Utilizando un enfoque de método de caso, este trabajo ha explorado cuatro revitalizaciones urbanas brasileñas, la evolución del Distrito de la Innovación 22@Barcelona y la evolución del ecosistema San Francisco-Silicon Valley. De estos casos, pueden extraerse varias implicaciones. Desde el punto de vista académico, el modelo Quintuple Helix y la teoría Knowledge Based Urban Development (KBUD) proporcionan un marco apropiado para describir los procesos de revitalización que se han analizado. Desde la perspectiva de los responsables políticos en la revitalización urbana, este trabajo puede inspirar a otras ciudades que desean transformar las áreas industriales antiguas (transformación de brownfields) en centros de economía socialmente conscientes, creativos y basados en el conocimiento. Este estudio sugiere proponer una perspectiva holística del rol de las Universidades, la Industria y el Gobierno que incluya las especificidades locales en los procesos de revitalización en la dimensión urbana, económica, social y de gobernanza y una nueva perspectiva para teorizar la evolución de las Áreas de Innovación (AOI) desde el inicio hasta la madurez.
This PhD dissertation is a compendium of publications in the field of Ecosystems of Innovation. These articles are based on the conceptual frameworks of the Triple Helix model, Knowledge Based Urban Development paradigm, Clusters of Innovation and the Lifecycle Model of a New Venture. This thesis aims to contribute to the understanding of the revitalization projects of metropolitan areas and the evolution of the Ecosystems of Innovation. Using a case method approach, this work has explored four Brazilian urban revitalizations, the evolution of 22@Barcelona Innovation District and the evolution of San Francisco-Silicon Valley Ecosystem. From these cases, several implications can be drawn. From the academic point of view, the Quintuple Helix model and the Knowledge Based Urban Development (KBUD) theory provide an appropriate framework to describe the revitalization processes that have been analysed. From the perspective of policy makers in urban revitalization, this work can inspire other cities that want to transform old industrial areas (brownfield transformation) into socially conscious, creative and knowledge based economy hubs. This study suggests proposing a holistic perspective of the role of the Universities, Industry and Government that includes local specificities in the revitalization processes in the urban, economic, social and governance dimension and a new perspective for theorizing the evolution of Areas of Innovation (AOIs) from inception to maturity.
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Ferreira, Gabriela Ribeiro de Sena. "Arsenic Mobilization from Silicic Volcanic Rocks in the Southern Willamette Valley." PDXScholar, 2016. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2752.
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Volcanic tuffs and tuffaceous sediments are frequently associated with elevated As groundwater concentrations even though their bulk As contents (~ 5 mg kg-1; Savoie, 2013) are only marginally greater than the average crustal abundance of 4.8 mg g-1 (Rudnick & Gao, 2003). Thus, As mobilization must be facilitated by conditions particular to these rocks. Alkaline desorption, anionic competition, reactive glass dissolution, and reductive dissolution of iron oxides are proposed processes of As release from volcanic rocks. Geogenic As contamination of groundwater in the southern Willamette Valley in western Oregon has been well-documented since the early 1960s, and previous studies have identified the Little Butte Volcanics Series and Fisher and Eugene Formations as the source of As contamination.
This study examines 19 samples from 10 units of ash flow tuffs and tuffaceous sediments within the Fisher Formation and Little Butte Volcanics Series, representing a range of weathering and devitrification, to determine conditions of mobilization and mineralogical constraints that control As release into solution. Leachate studies were conducted over a range of pH from 7 to 11, phosphate concentrations from 10 μM to 100 mM, and in time series from 4 to 196 hours. Results demonstrate that silicic volcanic tuffs are capable of mobilizing As in concentrations above regulatory limits at pH conditions produced naturally by the tuffs (pH 8-9) or with moderate concentrations of P (10-100 μM). Alteration products, e.g. zeolites and clays, appear to be the primary host phases for mobile As. Samples that do not contain these alteration products tend to produce concentrations of As well below regulatory limits and often below the instrument detection limits of this study. The type of alteration may influence As mobilization: tuffs containing more clays tend to mobilize As through surficial desorption, and tuffs containing more zeolites tend to mobilize As by dissolution or formation of colloids. Additionally, one volcaniclastic sample demonstrates that extremely elevated concentrations of As, up to 1000 μg/L are possible as a result of oxidative dissolution of As-bearing sulfide phases.
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Cehrs, David 1948. "Anomalous concentrations of silica in ground water of the eastern San Joaquin Valley, California." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/191167.
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Anomalous concentrations of silica in ground water of the eastern San Joaquin Valley originate from several diverse sources and are subsequently modified by recharge or diagenesis. Statistics, geochemical models, and column studies identified potential sources of silica in ground water and those parameters most important in influencing its distribution. Principal components analysis indicated inverse time and potassium as the parameters which best relate to silica. Inverse time relates to ground-water recharge while potassium relates to either the rhyolitic Friant Pumice, the hardpans of the eastern San Joaquin Valley, or diagenetic losses. A lumped parameter model suggests that recharge is responsible for the drop in silica concentrations beneath Fresno since 1971. The Madera County model indicates higher silica concentrations associated with the Friant Pumice, older geologic units with hardpans, finer grained sediments, and areas of ground-water discharge. Lower silica concentrations are associated with unweathered sediments, areas receiving recharge, and areas underlain by the Corcoran Clay. Column leaching studies produced silica concentrations from the Friant Pumice of up to 90 mg/1, Turlock Lake and Riverbank Formation hardpans from 40-50 mg/1, and younger Modesto Formation sediments from 10-40 mg/l. Spatially, volcanogenic sediments impart the highest silica concentrations to the ground water, 70-95 mg/1, and occur along the eastern margin of the valley, north of the San Joaquin River, or in San Joaquin River fluvial deposits. Iron-silica hardpans, found at various depths along the east side of the valley, are associated with silica concentrations of 40-70 mg/l. The typical arkosic sediments of the eastern valley have silica concentrations of 20-40 mg/l. Silica concentrations in ground water are modified by recharge and diagenetic processes. Either natural or artificial recharge having 4-16 mg/1 silica may lower ambient silica concentrations in ground water. Recharge occurs beneath some rivers and in transmissive paleochannel deposits; artificial sources include agricultural overirrigation and basin recharge. The down-gradient loss of silica to the sedimentary column, more prevalent at depth, apparently is by the sorption of silica on clays, the formation of clays, or deposition of amorphous silica.
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Marshall, A. Saskia. "High-silical peralkaline magmatism of the Greater Olkaria Volcanic Complex, Kenya Rift Valley." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310585.
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Ajose, Lande U. "No ties that bind : low skill workers, social networks and job search in the Silicon Valley's new economy." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8523.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2002.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 237-244).
This dissertation is concerned with the relationship between economic growth and social and economic equity. Equity is defined as the economic growth that enables lesser skilled workers to access employment opportunities that provide them some measure of upward mobility. The thesis considers whether personal networks - a key means of searching for work - are likely to provide any upward mobility for low-skill workers. This thesis examines the role social networks play in providing access to employment opportunities and upward mobility in light of the new economy. In the old economy, lesser skilled workers used friends and family to gain access to entry-level jobs. Because these jobs were largely unskilled, employers looked primarily to these contacts as references for employment. Once hired, the social contract between the worker and the firm meant workers could depend on those jobs for lifelong employment. In the new economy, flexible work systems and new forms of work have created a more fluid labor market with significantly more job changing. As lesser skilled workers negotiate this new terrain, they must determine how to use their networks to identify employment opportunities that offer wage mobility. This study measures the personal contacts of a small sample of 44 lesser skilled workers against the fastest growing occupations and industries in the regional economy of the Silicon Valley.
(cont.) Methods include survey research, quantitative analysis and in-depth interviews. The data reveal that while the majority of personal contacts were to people in low status jobs, respondents also possessed contacts that were higher status workers with better labor market information about employment opportunities. However, most low-skill workers were hesitant to activate these well-placed networks. This thesis explores the reticence to activate networks and discusses the public policy implications of network use for upward mobility. It finds that networks are necessary for job search, but not sufficient for upward mobility absent a significant increase in skill. The policy recommendations argue for regional institutions as the point of intervention for policy implementation and labor market reform.
by Lande U. Ajose.
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