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Money for "Nothing" : The Rhetoric of the Silicon Valley

PWR 1GWT - Spring 2013 - Instructor: Trump, W.
Last Updated: 22-Apr-2013

A guide to resources for PWR 1GWT:  Money for "Nothing" : The Rhetoric of the Silicon Valley. Topics include connectedness between Stanford and Silicon Valley; the stories generated in and around the Silicon Valley; mission statements from the companies that typify Silicon Valley.

Background/Reference sources about Stanford and Silicon Valley

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research based argument.

Fire in the valley : the making of the personal computer / Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine.
2nd ed. New York, NY : McGraw Hill, 2000.
Green Library » Stacks » QA76.5 .F697 2000
The Internet : a historical encyclopedia / edited by Hilary W. Poole.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2005.
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » TK5105.875 .I57 I5372 2005 V.1
Fred Terman at Stanford : building a discipline, a university, and Silicon Valley / C. Stewart Gillmor.
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2004.
Green Library » Stacks » TK6545 .T47 G55 2004
Cooperative research centers and technical innovation [electronic resource] : government policies, industry strategies, and organizational dynamics / Craig Boardman, Denis O. Gray, Drew Rivers, editors.
New York, NY : Springer, c2013.
Relationship between Stanford University and Silicon Valley industry / Yuko Harayama.
Genève : Université de Genève, Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales, [1998]
Green Library » Stacks » TK210 .S73 H37 1998 F
Start-up : what we may still learn from Silicon Valley / Hervé Lebret.
[Lausanne] : Hervé Lebret, c2007.
Green Library » Stacks » HC107 .C23 H5347 2007
Raising entrepreneurial capital [electronic resource] / John B. Vinturella, Suzanne M. Erickson.
2nd ed. Burlington : Elsevier Science, 2013.
Chance and intent : managing the risks of innovation and entrepreneurship / edited by David L. Bodde and Caron H. St. John.
New York : Routledge, 2012.
Business Library » Stacks » HB615 .C527 2012
Cross-border venture capital investments [electronic resource] : why do venture capital firms invest at a distance? / Hortense Tarrade ; foreword by Dietmar Harhoff.
Wiesbaden : Springer Gabler, 2012.

Suggested Databases for Stanford and Silicon Valley Research

Try these suggested databases  and these additional:

ABI/INFORM [electronic resource].
Global ed. [Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI]
Covers over 1,600 leading business and management publications. Over 350 English-language titles from outside the U.S. Also includes articles on 60,000 companies,  and the Wall Street journal. Coverage from 1923 forward.
Web of science [electronic resource].
Philadelphia, PA : Institute for Scientific Information, c1998-
Index to scientific and technical articles and conference proceedings. Provides citations and brief abstracts to journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in science, technology and medicine and allied historical fields from prehistory to the present.  Check here for papers on current innovations by the people who are inventing.
Access world news [electronic resource] : the ultimate news archive.
Chester, Vt. : NewsBank, inc.
Full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues.
History of science, technology, and medicine [electronic resource].
[Palo Alto, Calif. : Research Libraries Information Network, 1995-
May be useful for background information.  Provides citations and some brief abstracts to journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology and medicine and allied historical fields from prehistory to the present.
America, history and life with full text [electronic resource].
Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Industries,
May be useful for background on innovation.  Provides full text coverage of the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.