What s Next for Silicon Valley?

What's Next for Silicon Valley?

Despite regional economic slowdowns and the recent evisceration of the dot-com sector, the huge technology economic base of this region continues to expand and thrive. Silicon Valley is well positioned to continue to lead the global technology economy because of the diversity of its business sectors, its linkage to the high-tech world regions , and the ability of its economy to be flexible and adapt to the ever-changing technology trends. Silicon Valley today functions more like a technology research and development laboratory than a manufacturing region, even though many of its most powerful corporate entities such as Cisco, Intel, and Solectron are manufacturing companies. The actual manufacturing is produced with vendors and suppliers in far-flung regions of the world. This enables Silicon Valley to be the knowledge headquarters for much of the original thinking for whatever the next waves of the innovative technology global economy will be. It is in the hands of global entrepreneurs that many of the new businesses and industries will arrive . To understand how global entrepreneurs work from Silicon Valley, we now focus on the story of DSPC and its founder, Davidi Gilo.