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Making Silicon Valley

其他書名	Engineering Culture, Innovation, and Industrial Growth, 1930-1970
出版	Stanford University, 1999
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5s9EAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This dissertation traces the growth of the Silicon Valley, the electronics manufacturing complex on the San Francisco Peninsula, from humble beginnings in the 1930s to its rise to prominence by the late 1960s. It focusses especially on the electronics component sector, the Valley's very core during this period. Most accounts of Silicon Valley have viewed the region as an outgrowth of Stanford University's research and teaching programs. Instead, this dissertation argues that it should be understood as the creation of three technological and entrepreneurial groups: radio amateurs, microwave engineers, and silicon technologists. These groups were either indigenous to the area or moved to the Peninsula in the postwar period. Each group brought with it new technologies as well as a distinct culture, style of work, and political and professional ideologies. These technological and entrepreneurial communities built three mutually supportive industries: the manufacture of power grid tubes, microwave tubes, and silicon components.