Cover news reporter Wang Hui
From the "Silicon Valley Phenomenon" to the "Silicon Valley Miracle", for decades, Silicon Valley, a small land located in northern California, has continued to lead the world's technological innovation trends. Who created Silicon Valley? Who has shaped American technological innovation? The book "The Silicon Valley Code: How Technological Innovation Reshaped America" answers these questions for readers and tells the real behind-the-scenes stories about Silicon Valley. The book was recently published by CITIC Publishing Group.
The story of Silicon Valley is a 70-year epic. It tells the story of how a small, verdant valley created a business legend, and how the people there resisted the rumors that "Silicon Valley is dead" time and time again and continued to promote technological innovation, making many places in the world try to copy but were unable to reproduce their success. .
The Story of Silicon Valley is an exciting brief history of 70 years of technological innovation in Silicon Valley. The author uses 4 acts to divide the 4 stages of development: from the early "Brain Army" to the small town technological elite, from the business empire of the genius boy to everyone's expansion towards the endless scientific frontier, showing how scientific and technological innovation will evolve under the tide of the times. The government reaches the individual.
The story of Silicon Valley is also a revelation of technological innovation, revealing the core experience of American technological innovation. Silicon Valley innovation is a technological revolution in which everyone participates, continuing the United States' spirit of expanding its frontiers. Countless ordinary people in Silicon Valley, they are professors from famous universities, engineers, middle school teachers and students, female programmers, venture capitalists, designers, marketing geniuses… Together they have created the legend of making wealth through technology in Silicon Valley, and shaped the technology ecosystem and innovation of Silicon Valley. model, business culture, social concepts, etc.
The book "Silicon Valley Code: How Technological Innovation Reshapes America" was shortlisted for the "Lucas Award" for non-fiction writing, nominated for the "Gallery Light Business Book Award", and was selected as one of the best books of the year by the Financial Times and Publishers Weekly. "New York Magazine" called this book a good read about technological innovation in Silicon Valley.
Tan Feng, a Silicon Valley research expert and former director of the Silicon Valley Liaison Office of the Zhongguancun National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone, believes that the book aims to decode the core secrets of Silicon Valley's technological innovation. In the context of the current new round of technological competition, readers who are concerned about technological innovation and entrepreneurship can read This book provides a deeper understanding of Silicon Valley and the Silicon Valley model.
Wu Chen, executive editor of The Economist Business Review, said that the development history of Silicon Valley is the continuation and derivative of the American spirit of border expansion. First of all, Silicon Valley is at the end of the United States' westward expansion; secondly, its development is a progression from the tangible economy to the intangible economy (from chips to the Internet); thirdly, it represents the government, university research institutions, entrepreneurs and venture capital The joint efforts have created a new ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship, and its ability to "attract money", attract talents and create wealth is comparable to Wall Street on the east coast of the United States.
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