The origins of the electronics industry on the pacific coast

Norberg, Arthur L.

doi:10.1109/proc.1976.10321

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“…The flow of students went in both directions – towards industry and basic research disciplines, notably physics (Williams, 1998; Lecuyer, 2007). Stanford professors and their former students, in nearby firms and in the university, made a series of inventions in the late 1930s that took the local electronics industry to a new level (Norberg, 1976). Encouraging spin-offs was also a key part of Stanford’s academic development strategy.…”

Section: Stanford University’s Founding Imprint and Development Phasesmentioning

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Entrepreneurial university icon: Stanford and Silicon Valley as innovation and natural ecosystem

Etzkowitz

2022

Industry and Higher Education

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The author explicates the cultural DNA and take-off trajectory of an exemplary entrepreneurial university and its emerging focus on sustainability. Entrepreneurial initiatives, emanating from the engineering school in the late 19th century, spread to the physical sciences in the 1930s and to the biological sciences and medicine by the 1970s. A concerted and compressed academic development strategy sought researchers with related interests across disciplines, assuming that teaching could be diversified from these critical cores. A multi-pronged financial strategy included attracting federal research funds, leasing university land, technology transfer income and endowment from gifts and equity in university-originated firms in varying past and future proportions. Bottom-up initiatives proliferated, filling technology transfer and start-up support gaps in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Recently, some innovation initiatives have been shuttered as the Administration has tacked towards addressing climate change though a microscopic initiative. Given an institutionalized and legitimated culture and infrastructure of entrepreneurship and innovation, these dual institutional logics operate in tandem symbiosis, mutually fructifying each other.

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Section: Stanford University’s Founding Imprint and Development Phasesmentioning

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Entrepreneurial university icon: Stanford and Silicon Valley as innovation and natural ecosystem

Etzkowitz

2022

Industry and Higher Education

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“…The flow of students went in both directions – towards industry and towards basic research disciplines, notably physics (Lecuyer, 2003; Williams, 1998). Stanford professors and their former students, in nearby firms and in the university, made a series of inventions in the late 1930s that took the local electronics industry to a new level (Norberg, 1976).…”

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Is Silicon Valley a global model or unique anomaly?

Etzkowitz

2019

Industry and Higher Education

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A boundary-spanning regional innovation model of permeability among university, industry and government is abstracted from Boston, Silicon Valley and Research Triangle and used to assess Newcastle Science City. Early history may provide a better guide for aspiring regions than abstracting elements from the contemporary Silicon Valley ecosystem with its multiple interactive technology and business paradigms. Inducing permeability in academic boundaries is a first step to creating an entrepreneurial university, the motive force of the most successful regional innovation clusters. After a high-tech cluster is achieved, the generative source of its firms is often forgotten, their origins obscured by highly visible artefacts and symbols, like science parks or branding. The increasing dependence of Silicon Valley on external sources of human capital and innovation is a potential Achilles heel, if competitive regions achieve ‘stickiness’ and retain their assets. Paradoxically, Silicon Valley is both unique and replicable.

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“…Frequently, the lack of venture capital funding and the lack of adequate technical talent are cited as some of the main hurdles to business incubation and startup activity in Los Angeles. While Los Angeles started out as the main destination for venture capital in the late 1940s and 1950s due to its strong defense-related computing industry, it has consistently fallen short of Silicon Valley since the 1960s (Norberg 1976). However, since the early 2000s, Los Angeles has experienced a substantial increase in startup activity as well as venture capital investment, particularly in the digital media space (CB Insights 2013).…”

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Exploring Sources of Innovation in the Knowledge-Based Economy: The Case of Los Angeles

Graf¹

2016

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The origins of the electronics industry on the pacific coast

Cited by 28 publications

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Entrepreneurial university icon: Stanford and Silicon Valley as innovation and natural ecosystem

Entrepreneurial university icon: Stanford and Silicon Valley as innovation and natural ecosystem

Is Silicon Valley a global model or unique anomaly?

Exploring Sources of Innovation in the Knowledge-Based Economy: The Case of Los Angeles

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