Where is the real Silicon Valley?

Abstract: There have been a lot of research on Silicon Valley technology companies, but often only from the number of companies to study, rarely from the company's quality of development research. Recently, MIT's teaching Jorge Guzman and Scott Stern have done a research on the quality of the technology company's development.

There has been a lot of research on Silicon Valley technology companies, but often only from the number of companies to study, rarely from the company's quality of development research. Recently, MIT's Jorge Guzman and Scott Stern have done research on the quality of such a technology company, and the results have just been published in Science.

They selected all the 2001-2011 New Economy companies headquartered in California, then selected 70% of the companies as research subjects, studied the company's development process, established a set of factors affecting the development of the company model, and the remaining 30% of the company validated the model, Uncover the real secrets that affect the development of technology companies, and sketch out the real map of Silicon Valley.

Let's start by saying something particularly interesting:

Company name and technology linked generally better development. Companies that are not named after their founders generally develop better. Registered companies generally develop five times times better than unregistered companies. A registered patent company is generally four times times better than a company without a patent.

Let's talk about where the real Silicon Valley is.

Above is a new map of Silicon Valley, showing the difference in quality of development of Silicon Valley companies, the deeper the color, the better the company develops.

In addition, two professors also found that there are often sporadic distribution of high quality technology companies around the university. (see above)

Two professors also studied urban factors. The picture above shows the development of technology companies in six California regions, each representing a city, and the size of the circle represents the population of the city, and the more to the right of the image, the better the company develops. By contrast, Silicon Valley is significantly better than other parts of California.

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It is said that the next two professors will study other factors, such as the impact of wind and public financing on the development of technology companies, and will extend the scope of research beyond the Silicon Valley.