• Title/Summary/Keyword: Silicon Valley

Search Result 46, Processing Time 0.023 seconds

Comparing the ICT industries of Silicon Valley and Route 128: What has law got to do with it?

  • Timberman, Alex
    • Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
    • /
    • v.4 no.1
    • /
    • pp.19-34
    • /
    • 2015
  • Silicon Valley's legal foundation in recent years has surfaced on the radar of policy planners who model Silicon Valley's information and communication technologies (ICT) industry. Precisely, the prohibition of covenants not to compete (CNCs) is linked to firm-to-firm knowledge spillovers by way of mobile workers positioned as nodes in a system of innovation. Meanwhile, traditional frameworks support enforcement of CNCs as a way to encourage R&D activities to the worker and to prevent the worker's tacit knowledge and know-how from fleeing. Amidst the battle for the restraint or release of human capital, we present an industrial approach to reconcile the ostensible strife between enforcement and prohibition frameworks. Theoretically, we contend an industrial approach can maximize the policy tools of discorded planners. Moreover, this article newly compares the ICT industries of Silicon Valley and Route 128 to argue that California's law is a unique factor in the greater success of Silicon Valley firms.

Comparing the ICT industries of Silicon Valley and Route 128: What's law got to do with it?

  • Timberman, Alex;Seol, Sung-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
    • /
    • 2014.10a
    • /
    • pp.189-203
    • /
    • 2014
  • Silicon Valley's legal foundation in recent years has surfaced on the radar of policy planners who model Silicon Valley's ICT industry. Precisely, the prohibition of covenants not to compete is linked to firm to firm knowledge spillovers by way of mobile workers positioned as nodes in a system of innovation. Meanwhile, traditional frameworks support enforcement of covenants not to compete as a way to encourage R&D into the worker and to prevent the worker's tacit knowledge and know-how from fleeing. This article examines the ICT industry in Silicon Valley and Route 128 to argue that California's unique law is a key factor in the success of Silicon Valley firms. Theoretically, we reconcile the ostensible strife between enforcement and prohibition frameworks by presenting an industrial approach. We contend that selective enforcement by industry can maximize the policy tools of discorded planners.

  • PDF

Legal Foundation of Silicon Valley: Lessons for Asian Hi-Tech Districts

  • Timberman, Alex
    • Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
    • /
    • v.3 no.1
    • /
    • pp.1-24
    • /
    • 2014
  • Policy planners in Asia readily covet high technology districts and regional systems of innovation such as Silicon Valley. We examine the law's role, by way of covenants not to compete (競業禁止條項) in the development of Silicon Valley by reviewing the literature from 1999 through 2013. The research suggests that in certain high-tech districts such as Silicon Valley, there are greater gains in the innovation of a region by prohibiting CNCs. While we emphasize CNC law as the main legal determinant to Silicon Valley's success, the application of trade secret law and the inevitable disclosure doctrine are also factors that can aid or restrict the mobility and knowledge spillover of a region. Even with much explored, perspectives are lacking from a regional innovation systems analysis, and more so in the context of Asian nations. To tackle these gaps, three analytical frameworks are presented that entails labor law, law and economics, and law and innovation. And from within the law and innovation framework, research is introduced in the hope that future discussions on Asian regional innovation systems consider the legal foundation of Silicon Valley.

또 하나의 'Birthplace os Silicon-Valley'를 꿈꾸며

  • Choe, Sam-Ha
    • 정보화사회
    • /
    • s.167
    • /
    • pp.35-39
    • /
    • 2004
  • 10년 혹은 20년이 흐른 뒤에 지금의 조그만 연구실이 커다란 기업의 모태가 되어 관광객들의 발길을 이끄는 또 하나의 'Birthplace of Silicon Valley'가 될 수 있도록 땀을 흘리며 꿈을 캐고 있다.

  • PDF

An Exploratory Study on the Success Factors of Silicon Valley Platform Business Ecosystem: Focusing on IPA Analysis and Qualitative Analysis (실리콘밸리 플랫폼 기업생태계의 성공요인에 관한 탐색적 연구: IPA 분석과 질적 분석을 중심으로)

  • Yeonsung, Jung;Seong Ho, Lee
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
    • /
    • v.18 no.1
    • /
    • pp.203-223
    • /
    • 2023
  • Recently, the platform industry is rapidly growing in the global market, and competition is intensifying at the same time. Therefore, in order for domestic platform companies to have global competitiveness in the platform market, it is necessary to study the platform business ecosystem and success factors. However, most of the recent platform-related studies have been theoretical studies on the characteristics of platform business status analysis, platform economy, and indirect network externalities of platforms. Therefore, this study comprehensively analyzed the success factors of Silicon Valley's business ecosystem proposed in previous studies, and at the same time analyzed the success factors extracted from stakeholders in the actual Silicon Valley platform business ecosystem. And based on these factors, an IPA analysis was conducted as a way to propose a success plan to stakeholders in the platform business ecosystem. As a result of the analysis, among the success factors collected through previous studies, manpower, capital, and challenge culture were identified as factors that are relatively well maintained in both importance and satisfaction in Silicon Valley. In the end, it can be seen that the creation of an environment and culture in which Silicon Valley can use it to challenge itself based on excellent human resources and abundant capital contributes the most to the success of Silicon Valley's platform business. On the other hand, although it is of high importance to Silicon Valley's platform corporate ecosystem, the factors that show relatively low satisfaction among stakeholders are 'learning and benchmarking among active companies' and 'strong ties and cooperation between members', and it is analyzed that interest and effort are needed to strengthen these factors in the future. Finally, the systems and policies necessary for market autonomous competition, 'business support service industry', 'name value', and 'spin-off start-up' were important factors in literature research, but the importance and satisfaction of these factors were lowered due to changes in the times and environment. This study has academic implications in that it comprehensively analyzes the success factors of Silicon Valley's business ecosystem proposed in previous studies, and at the same time analyzes the success factors extracted from stakeholders in the actual Silicon Valley platform business ecosystem. In addition, there is another academic implications that importance and satisfaction were simultaneously examined through IPA analysis based on these various extracted factors. As for academic implications, it is meaningful in that it contributed to the formation of the domestic platform ecosystem by providing the government and companies with concrete information on the success factors of the platform business ecosystem and the theoretical grounds for the growth of domestic platform businesses.

  • PDF

A Study on the Development Plan for Innovation Cluster in Gyeonggi Province throughout a Case Study on Silicon Valley Innovation Cluster (캘리포니아 혁신클러스터 사례연구를 통한 경기도 혁신클러스터 발전방안 연구)

  • Kim, Myung Jin;Jung, Eui-Jeong;Lee, Yeonhee
    • Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
    • /
    • v.16 no.2
    • /
    • pp.293-309
    • /
    • 2013
  • Innovation clusters have different factors depending on different stages. Innovation clusters in Gyeonggi now are early stages, which are necessary to investigate factors so that they go into upstages. Silicon Valley is known as one of the best innovation clusters, which are now represented as the forms of related variety. The purpose of the paper is to investigate current situation of innovation clusters in Silicon Valley and suggest appropriate policies for the development of innovation clusters in Gyeonggi. In order to do this, we visit several representative institutions regarding infra, human-training, industry-academic-institution cooperation, start-up assistance and local government. Throughout the case study, we propose implications, and produce policy tasks for the development of cluster policy in Gyeonggi.

  • PDF

Electron Transport Characterization Including L Valley at High Field (실리콘의 L valley를 고려한 강한 전계에서 전자 수송의 특성)

  • Rhee, Jun-Koo;Park, Young-June;Han, Min-Koo
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
    • /
    • 1990.07a
    • /
    • pp.257-260
    • /
    • 1990
  • Monte Carlo simulations of electron impact ionization in silicon utilizing simple spherical band approximation including L valley are presented. The mean energy of electron at high electric field is lowered and the threshold energy of electron impact ionizaiotn is smeared out to $E_x$ by including L valley. This work also presents the importance of the modeling of L valley by calculating the electron population rate of it over the threshold energy of eletron impact ionization, which is higher than 10%

  • PDF

Dynamics of the Evolution of ICT Convergence : Knowledge Convergence in Silicon Valley (ICT 융합 진화과정의 동태성 : 실리콘밸리 지식 융합 사례를 중심으로)

  • Jeong, Soon-Ki;Rhee, Byung Ho
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
    • /
    • v.12 no.1
    • /
    • pp.143-161
    • /
    • 2013
  • Convergence is now the trend of knowledge information society. Information technology and knowledge transfer are main sources of convergence. There are many articles which studied outcomes of convergence while there are few articles that try to study the process of convergence. The purpose of this study is to investigate how convergence is dynamically formalized. For the analysis, we used Institutional Analysis and Development(IAD) framework from the point of convergence. IAD framework could synthetically study the origin and the process of convergence. We investigated the case of sillicon valley whether or not dynamics of ICT convergence could be explicable by IAD framework. The results shows that ICT technology and knowledge could be the enabler for the formation of convergence. ICT technology accelerates convergence and knowledge convergence from information converge different technologies and industries. This article provides a theoretical foundation for future research to analyze dynamics of ICT convergence by the IAD framework. For the future work, it is recommended that a study is to be empirically analyzed the dynamics of ICT convergence.

Creating a Silicon Valley: Lessons Learned from Taiwan (하이테크 클러스터의 경쟁력: 실리콘밸리와 대만의 사례)

  • Chang Soo-Duck
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
    • /
    • v.27 no.2
    • /
    • pp.86-92
    • /
    • 2004
  • 미국의 실리콘밸리와 대만의 신주공업단지는 종종 첨단 산업집적단지의 성공적 모델로 불리어진다. 이들 두 지역의 성공 및 경쟁력에 대한 지배적 설명은 전통적으로 경제활동의 공간적 집적이 가져다주는 경제적 이익을 제시하기 위해 사용된 "외부규모의 경제"에 이론적 기반을 두고 있다. 그러나, 외부경제란 개념만으로 이들 지역의 역동적 발전과 모방하기 힘든 경쟁력을 설명하기에는 부족함이 많았다. 본 논문은 이들 지역에서 역사적으로 전개되어진 기업과 외부 경제주체들과의 관계를 사회적 자본, 네트워크 기반 산업시스템 분석, 자원기반이론 등을 토대로 분석하여 이들 두 지역이 첨단집적단지로서의 성공요인과 경쟁우위에 대해서 살펴보고자 했다. 아울러 본 논문은 이들 두 지역에 있어서 발전적 협력관계를 분석함으로서 국내에서 이러한 첨단산업단지를 개발하고 발전시키기 위해 필요한 것이 무엇인지를 검토하고 이에 필요한 정책적 시사점을 몇 가지 제시했다.몇 가지 제시했다.