1. The birth of Silicon Valley is inseparable from the overall environment of the United States. Taken together, education in the United States is very developed and can provide enough new technologies and a steady stream of R&D talents for innovation; the country has a sound legal system and attaches great importance to intellectual property protection. Innovative small companies do not have to worry about their patents and models being used by large companies. Plagiarism; There is a strong hero complex in American culture. People dare to release their dreams and believe that this system can allow ordinary people to succeed without too many worries; the United States is a country of immigrants, which makes its culture highly diversified and inclusive. Very strong, people are not afraid of failure, society tolerates failure. These are the environmental conditions and humanistic qualities necessary for innovation and entrepreneurship.
2. The United States has a very developed air transportation network and a low-cost road transportation network, which allows the factors required for economic development to flow freely and fully throughout the United States. Such an environment enables the United States to form a reasonable industrial division of labor across the country and create sufficient industrial agglomeration effects in local areas. For example, across the United States, there is the undisputed financial center of New York, the agglomeration of the biological industry in the Boston area, the agglomeration of electrical appliances and petroleum equipment manufacturing industries in Texas, the agglomeration of IT and TMT industries in the Silicon Valley area, and the star-studded culture and entertainment in Los Angeles. Industrial agglomeration. Silicon Valley is an industrial area with sufficient agglomeration effect when viewed alone, and it is an organic link in the overall economic environment of the United States when viewed as a whole.
3. We also have to consider the personality factors of Silicon Valley as a region. The initial development of Silicon Valley was due to the university Stanford, and Stanford is one of the best universities integrating industry, education and research. In fact, the reason why Stanford did such a good job in industry, academia, and research was because the school was short of funds at that time, and its founder, Mr. Stanford, stipulated in his will that "the school land is never allowed to be sold," which forced the management to have no choice but to desperately build the school. Use your brains on technology transformation and land leasing. This formed the initial development model of “university industrial park + university technology transformation” and formed the prototype of Silicon Valley. This development method has enabled Silicon Valley to lead in technological innovation from the beginning and continue to lead, establishing a strong brand and attractiveness. Now it has formed a strong Matthew Effect, and other regions will not be able to match it in a short period of time.
4. Another striking feature is that the population is "immigrated". Initially, the gold rush in the western United States attracted a group of the most adventurous Americans from the east to San Francisco. Although most of these people failed, their adventurous spirit and pioneering courage were passed down. With the passage of time, the west has become the main destination and gathering place for a large number of immigrants from Eastern Europe, China, and India. The arrival of these people has brought a diligent temperament and a more diverse and inclusive cultural atmosphere to Silicon Valley. These unique ethos make Silicon Valley a natural place for innovation and entrepreneurship.
5. Silicon Valley is very lucky that it has caught up with the technological revolution since the 1970s. With the development of microprocessing in the 1970s, the size of computers was greatly reduced. This technology brought the world into the "Internet Age." At that time, Silicon Valley went all out to develop towards this path in terms of R&D capability reserves and technology path selection. It can be said that Stanford's technology and Silicon Valley's industry are leading this era, or it can be said that this new era has made Silicon Valley's glory! The development of microcomputer technology and the arrival of the Internet era are inevitable in human history, but the formation of cluster industries in Silicon Valley by this technology is still somewhat accidental. This has an important relationship with the hardware conditions of Silicon Valley, but to a large extent it is also Silicon Valley’s own good fortune.