Silicon+Valley

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=**Agenda:**=
 * **Part** || **Duration** || **Referee** || **Short description** (for more detailed outlines please scroll down) ||
 * 1. History || 6 minutes || Christina ||  ||
 * 2 . Present situations || --- ||  ||   ||
 * 2.1. General facts || 2 minutes || Hauke || 1,500 sq miles, with 2.44 million inhabitants in 27 cities from many different countries, which are highly educated are the base for innovation and productivity. With increasing education and to be interesting for immigration the wages increase as well and costs become exorbitant. ||
 * 2.2. Influences || --- ||  ||   ||
 * 2.2.1. Industry || 4 minutes || Hauke || Seven Universities and a large number of companies attract workforce important for innovation and therby improvements and productivity. The high venture capital investment grants innovations, seen in the total number of patents and value added per worker, and a good return on investment. ||
 * 2.2.2. Politics || 4 minutes || Hauke ||  ||
 * 2.2.3. Culuture of Innovation || 4 minutes || JP || Ethnical composition is the base for Silicon's culture of innovation and therefore its prosperity. But latest developments have shown that resource supply for innovations is endangered and an accumulation of geeks has also downwards to the social environment and the children who grow up in it. ||
 * 2.2.4. Education || 4 minutes || JP || Education creating a resource pool for talented stuff is heavily depended on immigration in the Valley. As rising stars like Bangalore cap a part the incoming workforce flow, supply is decreased and salary price spirals lower Silicon's competitive advantage. ||
 * 2.2.5. Environment || 2 minutes || JP || A solution for the Valley might be its diversification in clean technologies. Investments in this field just rocketed. ||
 * 3. Future - Chances and Risks || 6 minutes || Sebastian T. || Approaches to forecast the future for the land of boom and bust ||
 * 4. Imitations/Competitors || 4 minutes || Sebastian T. || "New Silicon Valleys" arise all over the world. A brief description of their potential to survive and to be a danger for Silicon Valley ||
 * 5. Conclusion - SWOT || 4 minutes || Christina ||  ||
 * || **40 minutes** ||  ||   ||

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=Notes:=

1. History (Christina - 6 minutes / 8 slides)
Introduction + Agenda

5. Conclusion - SWOT (Christina - 4 Minutes / 2 slides)

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