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  • Silicon Valley venture capitalist confidence index q1 2019
    Social Science Research Network, 2019
    Co-Authors: Mark V Cannice
    Abstract:

    The Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index™ (Bloomberg ticker symbol: SVVCCI) is based on a recurring quarterly survey (since Q1 2004) of Silicon Valley/San Francisco Bay Area venture capitalists. The Index measures and reports the opinions of professional venture capitalists on their estimations of the high-growth venture entrepreneurial environment in the San Francisco Bay Area over the next 6 - 18 months. The Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index™ for the first quarter of 2019, based on a March 2019 survey of 26 San Francisco Bay Area venture capitalists, registered 3.63 on a 5-point scale (with 5 indicating high confidence and 1 indicating low confidence). This quarter’s Index measurement climbed significantly from the previous quarter’s Index reading of 3.20 which was the lowest level since Q1 2009.

  • Silicon Valley venture capitalist confidence index
    Social Science Research Network, 2018
    Co-Authors: Mark V Cannice
    Abstract:

    Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist confidence in the Bay Area entrepreneurial environment rose in the final quarter of 2017. The upward change in direction of sentiment was levered to increasing amounts of available funding to support entrepreneurs working to introduce breakthrough technologies that aim to transform industries and change the trajectory of business. Macroeconomic metrics, particularly those tied to recent changes in corporate tax policy, also suggest a dynamic business environment where more corporate resources may be deployed to the development and acquisition of innovation. Record public stock market valuations also provide corporations a richer share currency to acquire innovation, thus providing additional exit opportunities and incentives for entrepreneurs and their venture capital backers.

  • Silicon Valley venture capitalist confidence index research report third quarter 2017
    Social Science Research Network, 2017
    Co-Authors: Mark V Cannice
    Abstract:

    The Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index™ (Bloomberg ticker symbol: SVVCCI) is based on a recurring quarterly survey of San Francisco Bay Area/Silicon Valley venture capitalists. The Index measures and reports the opinions of professional venture capitalists on their estimations of the high-growth venture entrepreneurial environment in the San Francisco Bay Area over the next 6 - 18 months. The Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index™ for the third quarter of 2017, based on a September 2017 survey of 25 San Francisco Bay Area venture capitalists, registered 3.43 on a 5-point scale (with 5 indicating high confidence and 1 indicating low confidence). This quarter’s index measurement declined from the previous quarter’s index reading of 3.52; it is also well below the nearly 14-year average of 3.71. Please see Graph 1 for trend data.

Damon J Phillips - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • firm status and downward diversification a note on participation in family law and personal injury law in Silicon Valley 1946 1996
    Social Science Research Network, 2012
    Co-Authors: Damon J Phillips, Catherine Turco, Ezra W Zuckerman
    Abstract:

    In this research note, we reanalyze and extend Phillips and Zuckerman’s (2001) study of diversification among Silicon Valley law firms. Our goals are to bolster the evidence in Phillips, Turco, and Zuckerman (2013a) in two ways. First, we demonstrate that high-status law firm diversification is relatively common when it involves Family Law (FL) (as shown in Phillips and Zuckerman 2001) but it is rare when it involves Personal Injury Law (PIL); and that observable repercussions for downward diversification are negative for PIL but nonexistent for FL. Second, we address the possibility that this difference derives from factors associated with firms’ existing capabilities, and thereby provide evidence that the diversification pattern is systematic.

  • organizational genealogies and the persistence of gender inequality the case of Silicon Valley law firms
    Administrative Science Quarterly, 2005
    Co-Authors: Damon J Phillips
    Abstract:

    Using a study on foundings of Silicon Valley law firms, I propose and test an organizational theory on the genealogical persistence of gender inequality that emphasizes the routines (or blueprints) and experiences that founders transfer from their parent firms to their new firms. This transfer links the parent firm's gender hierarchy to women's advancement opportunities in the new firm. Founders from parent firms that historically had women in leadership positions, such that female leadership is institutionalized, are more likely to found firms that promote women into prominent positions. Conversely, founders from firms that historically had women in subordinate positions, such that female subordination is institutionalized, are less likely to promote women into prominent positions. Findings are consistent with the theory and also show that the persistence effect is stronger for founders who were previously lower-ranked employees and for founders who institute an organization of work similar to their pare...

  • a genealogical approach to organizational life chances the parent progeny transfer among Silicon Valley law firms 1946 1996
    Administrative Science Quarterly, 2002
    Co-Authors: Damon J Phillips
    Abstract:

    Data on Silicon Valley law firms over a 50-year period were used to study the genealogy of organizational populations and its consequences for organizational life chances when a member of an existi...

  • a genealogical approach to organizational life chances the parent progeny transfer among Silicon Valley law firms 1946 1996
    Administrative Science Quarterly, 2002
    Co-Authors: Damon J Phillips
    Abstract:

    Data on Silicon Valley law firms over a 50-year period were used to study the genealogy of organizational populations and its consequences for organizational life chances when a member of an existing firm leaves to found a new firm. Hypotheses and subsequent analysis suggest that the transfer of resources and routines between a parent organization and its progeny decreases life chances for the parent firm and increases life chances for the progeny. The results are contingent on the founder's previous position in the parent firm and time since the parenting event. In addition, I find that progeny have lower life chances when the parent is a failing firm, when there are multiple parents, and when the founder is a former senior partner of a large law firm.

Annalee Saxenian - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • inside out regional networks and industrial adaptation in Silicon Valley and route 128
    2018
    Co-Authors: Annalee Saxenian
    Abstract:

    The competitive advantages of regional clusters have become a focal point of scholarly and policy attention. This chapter compares California's Silicon Valley with the Route 128 beltway around Boston, Massachusetts, to suggest the limits of the concept of external economies and to propose an alternative network approach to analyzing regional economies. The common notion of external economies is based on an assumption that the firm is an atomistic unit of production with clearly defined boundaries. A network approach can be used to argue that, despite similar origins and technologies, Silicon Valley and Route 128 evolved distinct industrial systems in the postwar period. The differences in productive organization have been overlooked by economic analysts or treated simply as superficial differences between "laid-back" California and the more "buttoned-down" East Coast. The successes of the 1980s generation of startups were the most visible sign that Silicon Valley was adapting faster than Route 128, but changes within the region's largest firms were equally important.

  • the Silicon Valley hsinchu connection technical communities and industrial upgrading
    Social Science Research Network, 2008
    Co-Authors: Annalee Saxenian, Jinnyuh Hsu
    Abstract:

    Silicon Valley in California and the Hsinchu-Taipei region of Taiwan are among the most frequently cited 'miracles' of the information technology era. The dominant accounts of these successes treat them in isolation, focusing either on free markets, multinationals or the role of the state. This paper argues that the dynamism of these regional economies is attributable to their increasing interdependencies. A community of US-educated Taiwanese engineers has coordinated a decentralized process of reciprocal industrial upgrading by transferring capital, skill and know-how to Taiwan, and by facilitating collaborations between specialist producers in the two regions. This case underscores the significance of technical communities and their institutions in transferring technology and organizing production at the global as well as the local level.

  • Silicon Valley s new immigrant high growth entrepreneurs
    Economic Development Quarterly, 2002
    Co-Authors: Annalee Saxenian
    Abstract:

    This article examines the economic contributions of skilled Asian immigrants in Silicon Valley—both directly, as entrepreneurs, and indirectly, as facilitators of trade with and investment in their...

  • Silicon Valley s new immigrant high growth entrepreneurs
    Social Science Research Network, 2002
    Co-Authors: Annalee Saxenian
    Abstract:

    This study examines the economic influence of experienced Asian immigrants in Silicon Valley as entrepreneurs and indirectly as facilitators of trade with, and investment in, their countries of origin. Due to the limited availability of data, a mix of research methods and strategies were used. The decennial census is the only comprehensive data on immigrants by industry and occupation. The analysis of immigrant-run businesses is taken from a customized Dun & Bradstreet (1998) database of 11,443 high-tech firms in Silicon Valley founded between 1980 and 1998. The study demonstrates that immigrants are significant contributors to entrepreneurial enterprises and, by extension, to the economy of Silicon Valley. Policymakers should be more aware of the benefits to the economy from immigrants, their investments, their trade with their countries of origin, and to the United States' economic development.(JSD)

  • local and global networks of immigrant professionals in Silicon Valley
    2002
    Co-Authors: Iris Xiaohong Quan, Annalee Saxenian, Yasuyuki Motoyama
    Abstract:

    INTRODUCTION Entrepreneurship and globalization concern scholars and policymakers interested in economic transformation. However, researchers typically treat these phenomena in isolation. Most studies of entrepreneurship focus either on the attributes of individual entrepreneurs or on their connections to the local or regional environment. (1) Studies of globalization focus on multinational corporations and nation-states. (2) As a result, entrepreneurship and globalization are rarely linked. Recent research suggests, however, that globalization and entrepreneurship are related: Foreign-born entrepreneurs are becoming agents of globalization by investing in their native countries, and their growing mobility is in turn fueling the emergence of entrepreneurial networks in distant locations. In Silicon Valley, for example, Taiwan-born entrepreneurs have built social and professional networks to support U.S. ventures, which they use to accelerate new firm in Taiwan. (3) There is evidence of a similar process among Indian immigrant entrepreneurs, (4) and scholars have begun to document emergence of strikingly similar transnational activities among Latin-American immigrants in the United States. (5) We know little about the extent and contours of this phenomenon. In what ways are globalization and entrepreneurship linked? Do foreign-born counterparts? What role do ethnic networks play in the process of new firm formation? To what extent are first-generation immigrants creating transnational networks that link their native countries and the Unite States? What is the nature of these connections? Is the "brain-drain"-the migration of the best and brightest from poor to rich nations-accelerating, being reversed or being replaced by "brain circulation". That is, are there more complex two-way flows of skilled workers between developed and less-developed economies? (6) Policymakers, face challenges resulting from the increasingly open flows of skill, technology, and capital across national boundaries. These processes have transformed debates about trade, immigration policy, and intellectual property rights, forcing creation of new institutions and mechanisms for adjudicating conflicts. This study will help to identify significant, and often unanticipated, areas of policy concern. This study contributes to our understanding of entrepreneurship, globalization, and their interrelations by documenting findings of the first large-scale survey of foreign-born professionals in Silicon Valley. The survey explores the scope and organization of the local and transnational networks constructed by the region's immigrant engineers and scientists. It focuses on first-generation Indian and Chinese immigrants, the two largest groups of skilled immigrants in the region, and compares their participation in local and global networks to one another and to that of their U.S. born counterparts. METHODS Surveying foreign-born professionals is unusually difficult. Most daunting is developing a sampling frame because the target population (foreign-born engineers and other professionals) is difficult to identify and, once identified, difficult to reach. We have only rough estimates of the population of immigrant professionals in a region, making difficult to determine representativeness survey. Nevertheless, we have attempted to maximize the study's validity. We estimate from Current Population Survey (CPS) data that there were about 320,000 professional workers in the high-technology sectors of the San Francisco Bay Area economy in 2000, including approximately 20,700 born in Greater China (Mainland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan) and 18,400 born in India. [The estimates of the representation of foreign-born workers in the Silicon Valley workforce are based on data on place of birth and employment from the Current Population Survey 1994-2000 sample for the five-country Bay Area (San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose). …

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