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アメリカの地域コミュニティとキャリアデザイン風土(その2) 米国シリコンバレーにみる地域創生 : ジョイントベンチャーシリコンバレーと市民企業家

Regional Rejuvenation in Silicon Valley : JVSVN and civic entrepreneurs

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13493043

https://doi.org/10.15002/00007388

法政大学キャリアデザイン学部

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2011-03

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Silicon Valley is still producing a lot of start−ups which will be leading companies of their time. After the Leman’shock so called ”small hundred” (meaning electric vehicle venture companies) were started in one of which Toyota made an equity investment. Mark Zukckerburg of Facebook moved from Boston to Silicon Valley, Mike Andreessen, co−author of Mosaic (the first widely−used web browser) from Champaign, Illinois, Linus Torvalds, an open source innovator of Linux from Finland. They got together in Silicon Valley. On the academic side, Silicon Valley gives us a place to study not only industrial clusters, innovation, equity finance, but also career studies. Good examples of Boundariless career and career imprints are found in Silicon Valley. A professor of Psychology at Stanford, Krumboltz, developed his famous Career Choice Theory in Silicon Valley. But few know Silicon Valley recovered from a serious economic crisis through the efforts of its communities. In the 1980’s Silicon Valley suffered severely from an assault by Japanese semiconductor makers. Factories were closed, unemployment rate soared. Young people fled from the Valley. On that occasion the people in Silicon Valley got together to discuss how to rejuvenate the Valley. They eventually decided to prepare to ride on the next industrial wave and create an infrastructure for the future. The purpose of this paper is to record the short history of the newly established NPO JVSVN. How the people in the Valley shared the sense of crisis and how they organized people of different interest groups. How they formed several NPOs, chose people as leaders and fostered them to implement the projects. They were proud of accumulating social capital in Silicon Valley. They created the word “civic entrepreneur”. One of the NPOs is Smart valley Inc. headed by John Young, the former chairman of HP as well as the chairman of US Government Committee on competitiveness(whose report was called “Young Report”). Smart valley Inc. turned out to be the test bed for the internet arena. It gave birth to many ICT−related ideas such as e−commerce, e−government, e−democracy, net−day etc. The purpose of this paper is to be a case study for students to discuss. This case study helps students to understand Anglo−American people’s mind and their behavior, and presents a framework for regional governance.

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