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II. Silicon Valley – The Top Research Cluster in the U.S.

II. Silicon Valley – The Top Research Cluster in the U.S. Introduction: A Valley of Silicon?. Silicon Valley, located between San Francisco and San Jose, CA

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II. Silicon Valley – The Top Research Cluster in the U.S.

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  1. II. Silicon Valley – The Top Research Cluster in the U.S.

  2. Introduction: A Valley of Silicon? • Silicon Valley, located between San Francisco and San Jose, CA • Home to many of today’s leading companies in computer, Internet and venture capital businesses including Google, HP, Oracle and Sun Microsystems • Close Proximity to Stanford University and major employer of many of its computer science, engineering and business students after they graduate • Considered to be the number one “hotbed” for technological development along with Internet entrepreneurship in the U.S.

  3. What’s so special about the San Francisco Bay Area?

  4. Great schools fuel great minds

  5. Silicon Valley

  6. Silicon Valley today: a scientific/commercial renaissance

  7. What are the top strengths of doing business in SV?

  8. The Venture Capital Capital

  9. Some of the companies founded in SV Count how many companies you’ve heard of….

  10. Highway 101 – The tech industry’s Madison Avenue

  11. The Origins

  12. The Early Years

  13. The Early Years

  14. Waves of Innovation 1950 - 2010

  15. Silicon Valley’s transistor and computer sector had a role in drawing such a large population increase

  16. The heady 90’s of high flying stocks & bonuses

  17. The dot-com bubble

  18. Cash or stock, you make the call

  19. Cash or stock, you make the call

  20. A win-win way to recruit in Silicon Valley

  21. 2011: Largest venture capital dealsGreater Bay Area

  22. 2011: Largest IPOs in the Greater Bay Area Free On-line Games Biotechnology company transforming plant-based sugars into high-value oil Professional Networking Social business software Online Music

  23. 2012: Largest venture backed companiesGreater Bay Area

  24. 2012: Largest IPOs in the Greater Bay Area

  25. SiliconValleyRanked #1 with 226 privatetechcompaniesacquired. • SiliconValleywas home to nearly as manyprivatetechcompaniesthatwereacquired as the rest of the Top 5 metro areas combined.  Source: www.privco.com

  26. Industry Make-up • Hewlett-Packard and Apple, focusing solely on computer sales, maintain a strong position • More than half represented by “Other” – (e.g. companies specializing in business software and network equipment) • Apple and HP make the most profit BUT many opportunities for specialized companies like Sun Microsystems and Oracle Source: 2006 Bay Area News Group

  27. Microsoft and Apple, Inc • Competition between Microsoft (Seattle) and Apple (Silicon Valley) • Race between the companies rooted in animosity over “who really invented the PC” • Microsoft has always been ahead of Apple. Apple been making up for this in its recent renaissance iPod, iPhone, iPad, etc… • Microsoft is still the leader in the operating systems market Video: Apple vs. PC commercials Video: Pirates of Silicon Valley trailer

  28. Internet Integration

  29. Stanford Research Park • technologyparklocatedin Palo Alto on land ownedby StanfordUniversity • Built in 1951, as StanfordIndustrial Park, it claims to be the world's first technology-focused office park. • playeda keyrole in creationof SiliconValley • Earlytenants included HP, GE and Lockheed. Still home to HP and untilrecentlyFacebook • (7 km²) 162 buildings holding 23,000 employeeswhowork for 140 differentcompanies.

  30. “Stanford University fosters a climate where collaboration with industry thrives, generating both breakthrough discoveries and the science and technology that can support continuous innovation. With a long history of vey productive relationships with corporations of all sizes, from startups to mature, successful enterprises, Stanford provides firms with education, research partnerships, consulting and connections to world class faculty and students.” • James F. Gibbons, Special Counsel to the President for Industry Relations, Stanford University

  31. “If western industry and western industrialists are to serve their own enlightened and long-range interests effectively, they must cooperate with western universities wherever possible, and strengthen them by financial and other assistance.” • Stanford Research Institute, Honors Cooperative Program, Stanford Industrial Park

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