More or less, it wasn't planned. It did have early government input. Silicon Valley was started by Stanford alumni, who got a lot of money from the DoD. The fir

More or less, it wasn't planned. It did have early government input. Silicon Valley was started by Stanford alumni, who got a lot of money from the DoD. The first tenants were defense and aerospace companies, and this transitioned to semiconductors and computers. The Silicon Valley we now know has taken 70 years to get here. Basically, almost every government wants to incubate its own startup culture. Because they now recognize how much influence they contribute to the country and internationally. But it will take decades to know if their ideas have taken root. There is no shortcut to these things and most politicians aren't so patient.