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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 4- Semiconductors

Steve Blank

This “whole of government approach” is known by the acronym DIME -FIL. Class 4 Required Readings: Silicon Valley, the Military, and the Journey to the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Steve Blank, “ The Secret History of Silicon Valley ” Steve Blank , November 20, 2008. Oppenheimer , Dec. Semiconductor Case Study.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

Not just in the military, but also in Silicon Valley, where it dooms otherwise successful companies. Over this course you’ve heard from the leading voices across the military, government, and industry issue a call to action. Taiwan announces its intention to comply with the U.S. If you can’t see the video click here.

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China – The Sleeper Awakens (Part 1 of 5)

Steve Blank

Summary: I’ve lived in Silicon Valley for 35 years, I’ve taught in entrepreneurial clusters in New York, Boston, Helsinki, Santiago Chile, St. Each of these clusters has wondered how to become the next Silicon Valley. Beijing is already there. ———-. bases in Guam and Okinawa. Lessons Learned.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

If you read only one previous post, read this one (or this one.) ————- The Birth of Entrepreneurship in The Hot Cold War Silicon Valley entrepreneurship was born in the middle of a secret war with the Soviet Union. military, the CIA and the National Security Agency. Meanwhile the U.S.

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China – The Sleeper Awakens (Part 1 of 5)

Steve Blank

Summary: I’ve lived in Silicon Valley for 35 years, I’ve taught in entrepreneurial clusters in New York, Boston, Helsinki, Santiago Chile, St. Each of these clusters has wondered how to become the next Silicon Valley. Beijing is already there. ———-. bases in Guam and Okinawa. Lessons Learned.

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America’s Entrepreneurial Innovation Needs Help

Startup Professionals Musings

Both China and Taiwan now provide a 5 year, zero-tax holiday, for semiconductor manufacturers, followed by 5 years at rates as low as 5%. In fact, between 1995 and 2005, these same immigrants founded over 50 percent of the venture-backed technology companies in Silicon Valley, and are some of the key venture capitalists there as well.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 6 – Unmanned Systems and Autonomy

Steve Blank

These instruments of national power employed in a “whole of government approach” to advance a state’s interests are known by the acronym DIME -FIL. dependence on TSMC in Taiwan, for its most advanced logic chips. This is problematic as China claims Taiwan is a province of China. Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s