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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part V: Happy 100th Birthday Silicon Valley
- mrduncan 18y agoHere is a link to the Google Tech Talk by Steve Blank: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&oi=video_result&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DhFSPHfZQpIQ&ei=Yr7sScrqNIrCM9zmoNkF&usg=AFQjCNF3xS5pQ0n2x_j4a_FVgyfupHDE0g http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&oi=video_r...
- skmurphy 18y agoIn the slides from that talk he actually anchored the start of Silicon Valley with Hewlett Packard. I blogged last year that Federal Radio was a much better starting point, See http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2008/11/05/steve-blank-on-secret-history-of-silicon-valley-at-chm-nov-20/ http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2008/11/05/steve-blank-on-secre... based on Timothy J. Sturgeon’s "How Silicon Valley Came to Be" where he notes: The fact that the San Francisco Bay Area’s electronics industry began close to the turn of the Twentieth Century should lay to rest the notion that industrialization and urbanization on the scale of Silicon Valley can be quickly induced in other areas. Silicon Valley is nearly 100 years old. It grew out of a historically and geographically specific context that cannot be recreated. The lesson for planners and economic developers is to focus on long-term, not short-term developmental trajectories. Silicon Valley was the fastest growing region in the United States during the late 1970s and early 1980s; but that growth came out of a place, not a technology. Silicon Valley’s development is intimately entwined with the long history of industrialization and innovation in the larger San Francisco Bay Area. See http://web.mit.edu/ipc/publications/pdf/00-014.pdf http://web.mit.edu/ipc/publications/pdf/00-014.pdf
- sblank 18y agoThanks for the link to the MIT paper. Wish I had seen it _before_ I wrote the blog post! I would have been much more coherent. steve