This opinion piece titled “’Hacker’ Ethos Comes to the Factory Floor ” by Mark Muro and Kelly Kline was published by the San Francisco Chronicle on February 19, 2016. The piece highlights the workforce implications of the manufacturing sector becoming more digitized, one of several compelling trends discussed at a recent Advanced Industries symposium held […]
Like weather predictions, economic forecasts are more accurate in the short run than in the long run. And, the economic forecast for 2016 continues to shine brightly in the immediate future, with some haze rolling in as we look further out. In Part 2 of our forecast blogs, we would like to share the key […]
Part 1: Joint Venture Silicon Valley’s State of the Valley Conference The 2016 “Forecast” season is in full swing. We’ve been making the rounds to hear what’s in store and will report on our findings in a two-part series. We start off with Joint Venture Silicon Valley’s (JVSV) annual State of the Valley Conference and […]
The City of Fremont has moved into the spotlight as an extraordinary location for advanced manufacturing, life sciences, and clean technology where some of the best of the best in innovation is coalescing. Thus it is not surprising that the City participates in social innovations that create new public-private partnerships, strengthen opportunities for struggling families, […]
The highly anticipated arrival of the new Warm Springs/South Fremont BART Station finally provides the 30,000 employees working in Fremont’s Innovation District with an alternate mode of transportation for their daily commute. This will help move cars off the roads and alleviate congestion along the 880 and 680 highway corridors during rush hour. But, in […]
In the spirit of Super Bowl 50, what better way to celebrate than with an evening of great food, entertainment, and the opportunity to mingle with a few football greats? And that’s exactly what nearly 120 guests did on the evening of Friday, February 5, at Legends of the Bay. This event celebrated the Fremont […]
This piece titled “Software eats manufacturing (and manufacturing gains)” by Mark Muro, Kelly Kline and Bruce Katz was posted on the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program website on February 5, 2016. It’s been five years since the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen quipped that “software is eating the world,” meaning that all of the digital tools and […]
At the first Startup Grind event of the New Year on January 19th, Preetish Nijhawan, Managing Director of Cervin Ventures talked about his experiences as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Nijhawan shared many of his funny, painful, and interesting personal stories about funding startups. At the end, he provided three lessons that entrepreneurs across all […]
To help kick-off the New Year, we recently sat down with Dr. Ray Stewart, founder and managing principal of Bay Materials, LLC, a leader in polymer R&D and product development, that serves companies within the medical device, orthodontic, food packaging, and consumer-product industries, among others. Here’s his take on where the biomed industry is headed, […]