ABSTRACT
This chapter further narrows down the focus of inquiry to a regional rather than national scale. On one hand, it focuses on the origins and emergence of the technological community of semiconductor firms in Silicon Valley (SV), California, and in particular its unique horizontal and entrepreneurial structure. The latter is worth studying in its own right, but also because it has served as a model for subsequent technological communities in SV. Furthermore this chapter explores university-industry links through a network analysis of leadership in professorial entrepreneurship at the departments of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley (UCB). It therefore highlights the significance of academia in the continuing success of SV through successive generations of ICT RTD work, from semiconductors in the 1960s and 1970s to personal computers in the 1980s, and Internet-related mobile technologies in the 1990s and early 2000s.
