... performance of Shenzhen, this article used a bibliometric method to compare its academic performance with that of Silicon Valley. Freeman (1987) defined an innovation system as ‘the network of institutions in the public and private sectors whose activities and interactions initiate, import, modify...

... the development of an active venture capital market. Bubbles notwithstanding, the maturation and dynamism of the venture capital market in the 1990s was one of the signal economic successes of the US in recent years. Not surprisingly, Japan has looked enviously at Silicon Valley. The search for an institutional...

... of democracy and authoritarianism in cyberspace. It argues that cyberspace has become the true home of those Indians in North America who imagine themselves as the authentic Aryans. It looks at the predominance of Indians in Silicon Valley, and suggests that Hinduism and the Internet were made for each other...

...This chapter examines a pattern of aspiration among first- and second-generation, low-income Latino youth participating in a public school biotechnology academy with corporate connections to Silicon Valley industry. In particular, it considers these Latino youth's desire to “give back...

...This chapter examines the education and training of Latino youth within the local and national context, with particular emphasis on the emergent civic agenda around the digital divide in Silicon Valley. It considers the political implications and historical context of this regional “civilizing...

... rivaling the old downtowns of middle-sized cities. Suburban industrial parks and office parks with low-rise buildings are also the incubators of knowledge suburbs such as Silicon Valley and Tsukuba Science City with economies based on research and technological innovation. Allen Paul Bellevue Washington...

... the Fremont suburb's rapid growth and development were prefaced on the valley's booming innovation economy and Asian Americans' own suburban dreams. Chans David and Elaine Heidegger Martin on dwelling Mission San Jose Chans David education Silicon Valley Silicon Valley suburbia American Dream New Gold...

... and Naturalization Act Hart Celler 1965 Microsoft Telsa immigration debates Donald Trump diversity inclusion privileged spaces hate crimes Silicon Valley minorities In January 2017 as I pored over the final edits to this book, my attention was continuously drawn to the immigration debates that were rocking...

...Chapter One introduces the study’s area of investigation: the diffusion of the Silicon Valley venture capital (VC) policy model. It presents the global policy diffusion trend by introducing the findings of the study’s dataset of forty-five countries’ VC policy choices. After presenting the core...

...This concluding chapter argues that regional newspaper stories in Silicon Valley, California, create the appearance of a raceless society, strengthening legislative efforts in California to eliminate affirmative action, multiculturalism, and other racialized policies...

...1 Corporate Elites and American Politics Silicon Valley may not dominate our lives, but we can be forgiven for thinking it does. A CNBC survey conducted at the end of 2017 revealed that 64% of Americans owned at least one Apple product, and the average American owned 2.6 such products (Liesman 2017...

.... Silicon Valley was emblematic of the changing business landscape, creating small, nimble companies and cult figures such as Steve Jobs. The personal computer, eventually taking the form of the smartphone, was one of the most disruptive inventions of the time. The early 2000s were characterized...

...This chapter considers the changes in work and health that have taken place in the United States, California, and the Silicon Valley region. It begins by identifying the five recurrent themes that emerge from an examination of the stories of embodied lives in Silicon Valley. These are Silicon...

... Joaquin Valley telegraphs time–space compression robots farm worker futurity neoliberalism queer social media television commodity fetishism Dominguez Ricardo Royal Chicano Air Force gender University of Southern California computers Silicon Valley Carrasco Barbara Cold War pesticides...

...This chapter discusses the impact of different types of learning on the success and failure of the transfer of the famous Silicon Valley Model (SVM) of innovation. Working with the idea of ‘adaptive learning’, it underlines the importance of understanding the learning process, and critically...

... generalization Internal and external validity uncertainty Woolcock Michael economics futures global clinical trials Ravallion Martin Experimentation Global South Randomistas Randomized Controlled Trials Development Economics Economism GiveDirectly Silicon Valley J-PAL On the north-eastern banks...

... Crypto AG Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency US democratic societies liberal democracy Mueller Milton national security open systems of data sovereignty Outer Space Treaty paradox of tolerance Popper Karl Silicon Valley techno libertarianism USA Patriot Act and concept of data...

... Netflix Oracle Schmidt Eric Silicon Valley Twitter Zuckerberg Mark Hennessy John Intel Jacobs Paul Mundie Craig Otellini Paul Qualcomm Stanford University Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement TPP Trump Donald Prashad Vijay Sacks Samm Alibaba China artificial intelligence and Ericsson...

... of the Year award to its inventor Andrew Grove ( Isaacson, 1997 , p. 48). The Fujitsu advertisement is taken from “Fujitsu. A Survey of Telecommunications” 1987 . There is ample scientific literature on the culture and history of Silicon Valley with which Section 4.5 opens. A “classic” is the work of 130...

...), the chapter frames a pervasive heavenly lithic materiality conjoined with a Protestant, geologic election. It concludes by following a continuum from the Christian New Jerusalem to twenty-first century after-earth, posthuman, and transhuman H+ futures as envisioned by elite Silicon Valley techno prophets...