What does it take to make a Silicon Valley?It's the right people.

Stanford and Berkeley yielded Silicon Valley.

If you could get the right ten thousand people to move from Silicon Valley to Buffalo, Buffalo would become Silicon Valley.

Could you reproduce Silicon Valley elsewhere, or is there something unique about it?It wouldn't be surprising if it were hard to reproduce in other countries, because you couldn't reproduce it in most of the US either.

Could you reproduce silicon Valley elsewhere, or is there something unique about it?

If you could get the right ten thousand people to move from silicon Valley to Buffalo, Buffalo would become Silicon Valley.

In contrast, California, home of Silicon Valley, recently proposed far more restrictive rules that would require human drivers be ready to take the wheel, and ban commercial use of self-driving technology.

It has migrated from Detroit to silicon Valley, where self-driving vehicles are coming to life.

The personal computing revolution and philosophy of disruptive innovation of silicon Valley grew, in part, out of the creations of the Homebrew Computer Chub, which was founded in a garage in Menlo Park, California, in the mid-1970s.

Self-made billionaires in Beijing, tech innovators in Silicon Valley, pioneering justices in Ghana—in these and countless other areas, women are leaving their mark.

But, Kapur notes, none of us like to fail, no matter how often Silicon Valley entrepreneurs praise the beneficial effects of an idea that fails or a start-up company that crashes and burns

There aren't many jobs in science for them, so they go to Wall Street and Silicon Valley to apply their analytical skills to more practical—and rewarding—efforts.