The reasons for the formation of Silicon Valley in the United States

1. The birth of Silicon Valley is inseparable from the overall environment of the United States. Generally speaking, American education is very developed, which can provide enough new technologies and a steady stream of R&D innovative talents. The country has a sound legal system and attaches importance to intellectual property protection. Innovative small companies don't have to worry about their patents and models being copied by big companies. There is a heavy heroic complex in American culture, and people dare to fly their dreams. I believe this system can make ordinary people succeed without too much concern. The United States is an immigrant country, which makes its culture highly diversified and inclusive. People are not afraid of failure, and society embraces failure. These are the environmental conditions and humanistic qualities that innovation and entrepreneurship must require.

2. The United States has a very developed air traffic network and a low-cost road traffic network, which enables the elements needed 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 form sufficient industrial agglomeration effects in local areas. For example, there are undisputed financial centers in new york, biological industries in Boston, electrical appliances and petroleum equipment manufacturing in Texas, IT and TMT industries in Silicon Valley, and cultural and entertainment industries in Starlight Glimmer. Silicon Valley is an industrial zone with sufficient agglomeration effect, and looking at the whole United States is an organic part of the overall economic environment of the United States.

Also consider the personality factors of Silicon Valley. The initial development of Silicon Valley is attributed to Stanford, which is one of the best universities in Industry-University-Research. In fact, Stanford did a good job in Industry-University-Research because the school was short of funds. The will of its founder, Mr. Stanford, stipulated that "the land of the school can never be sold", forcing the management to think hard about the technical transformation and land lease of the school. This has formed the initial development model of "university industrial park+technological transformation of universities" and formed the embryonic form of Silicon Valley. This way of development has enabled Silicon Valley to take the lead in technological innovation from the beginning, and established a strong brand and attraction. Now it has formed a powerful Matthew effect, which can't be compared with other regions in a short time.

Another notable feature is that the population is all "immigrants". Initially, the gold rush in the western United States attracted a group of the most adventurous Americans in 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 spiritual qualities make Silicon Valley a natural paradise for innovation and entrepreneurship.

Fortunately for Silicon Valley itself, it just happened to catch up with the "window" of technological revolution since 1970s. With the development of microprocessors in the 1970s, the size of computers has been greatly reduced, and this technology has brought the world into the "network age". At that time, Silicon Valley went all out to develop this road in terms of R&D capacity reserve and technology path selection. It can be said that Stanford's technology and Silicon Valley's industry have led this era, and it can also be said that this brand-new era has made Silicon Valley brilliant! The development of microcomputer technology and the arrival of network era are inevitable in human history, but it is accidental that this technology forms a cluster industry in Silicon Valley, which has an important relationship with the hardware conditions in Silicon Valley, but it is also the luck of Silicon Valley itself to a great extent.