2008 Index of Silicon Valley

2008 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.

 

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.

 

A Vision of a Wireless Silicon Valley (11/2005)

A Vision of a Wireless Silicon Valley

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)

Main Street Silicon Valley

Including analytical models and regional solutions.

 

 

The Future of Bay Area Jobs (07/2004)

The Future of Bay Area Jobs

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)

Statement of Principles

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)

Building the Next Silicon ValleyOutlines 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)

Silicon Valley 2010Describes 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)

An Economy at RiskThe 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?