2009 Index of Silicon Valley
Our principal analytical tool at Joint Venture is the Silicon Valley Index, a nationally recognized publication that has been telling the Silicon Valley Story since 1995. The indicators measure the strength of our economy and the health of our community, highlighting challenges and providing an analytical foundation for leadership and decision making.
2009 Special Analysis: Economic Restructuring and Workforce Transitions
As in years past, the Special Analysis is a core piece of the Index of Silicon Valley, and this year, it exists also as a stand-alone
document.
Climate Prosperity: A Greenprint for Silicon Valley
THE CHALLENGE: Protecting the Climate and Growing the Economy.
What if we could turn the climate change crisis into an opportunity to build a better world?
That is the promise of Climate Prosperity—creating a better, more sustainable world for
our children and grandchildren—and what this Greenprint for Silicon Valley is all about.
Smart Valley and Smart Health: A Final Report to the Community
Joint Venture’s Smart Health Task Force has worked for more than two years to introduce new efficiencies to the region’s health care sector by using information technology more effectively. The process has involved hundreds of leaders from the Valley’s health care providers, insurers, employers,and the broader community.
Cell Phone Coverage Primer (08/2008)
Cell phone service is no longer a matter of mere convenience for Silicon Valley companies, nor just a luxury for consumers. In today’s world most people can’t imagine getting through the day without it. A rapidly growing population has disconnected its landlines altogether. The cell phone–based E911 service is saving lives by automatically directing emergency workers to the scene of an accident, heart attack, or crime. Established businesses, entrepreneurial start-ups, and residential consumers are choosing locations by the quality of cell phone service.
A Vision of a Wireless Silicon Valley (11/2005)
The vision of our Wireless Silicon Valley project is to provide a low-cost, high-speed, outdoor, wireless infrastructure that will be available for a variety of purposes---on streets and highways, in parks and plazas, at construction sites, in recreational areas and business parks, and on buses and trains.
Main Street Silicon Valley: Shared Issues, Snapshots of Success and Models for Moving Forward (07/2004)
Including analytical models and regional solutions.
The Future of Bay Area Jobs (07/2004)
Study Finds Offshoring Less Important Than Other Factors to Job Creation and Destruction in Bay Area
Statement of Principles: California Budget and Tax Reform Initiative (02/2004)
Currently California faces an unprecedented budget shortfall. While fiscal deficits have faced many states, few have compared to California's, whose current deficit is larger than the budget shortfalls of all other states, combined.
Building the Next Silicon Valley: Strategy and ActionsBuilding the Next Silicon Valley: Strategy and Actions (09/2003)
Outlines four action-based initiatives to rebuild Silicon Valley's economy, create more jobs, and improve the region's quality of life. Read more about The Next Silicon Valley.
Silicon Valley 2010: A Regional Framework for Growing Together (1998)
Describes who and where we want to be in 2010; it is not a detailed plan for getting us there. Instead, by providing a vision with clear goals and specific progress measures, a framework . . . Read More
An Economy at RiskAn Economy at Risk (06/1992)
The 1990s will be a decade of opportunity for globally competitive regions. In the past, Silicon Valley set the pace as the world's leading technology region. Will Silicon Valley gain a growing share of the world's technology market in the future? Is Silicon Valley prepared to meet the challenge?