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Established in 1931, Moffett Field in Sunnyvale/Mountain View has played a strategic role in Silicon Valley's evolution, researching and developing key technologies, first for the U.S. military and then for NASA. Today it hosts the Ames Research Center. The San Francisco Bay Area had long been a major site of United States Navy research and ...
Economic conditions in Silicon Valley have led to categorization of the region as an hourglass economy, a type of socioeconomic phenomenon that favors the disproportionate growth of the upper and lower classes with comparatively weak development of the middle class. This economy is typically a characteristic of highly developed nations and ...
Grove felt that employment growth depended on those companies' ability or willingness to scale up within the US. According to Grove, Silicon Valley's "innovation machine" over the last few decades has not been adding many jobs, although American tech companies have instead been adding jobs in Asia "like mad."
AnnaLee Saxenian is a professor and the former Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Information, known widely for her work on technology clusters and social networks in Silicon Valley. She received her BA from Williams College in 1976 and her PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989.
Historically press shy, Iconiq Growth is sharing details about its VC fund for the first time. Inside Iconiq Growth, one of Silicon Valley’s most mysterious venture capital funds that just ...
Silicon Valley, a longtime engine of human achievement, has become a significant source of human harm. Aware of the gathering backlash, its leaders have dived into the political fray to protect ...
Wednesday, April 5, 2023. Silicon Valley is kissing some of its over-the-top perks goodbye. For years one of the defining benefits of scoring a job in Silicon Valley has been the over-the-top perks.
Cluster theory is a theory of strategy. Alfred Marshall , in his book Principles of Economics , published in 1890, first characterized clusters as a "concentration of specialized industries in particular localities" that he termed industrial districts .