Cold War and space-race government funding helped create the postwar Silicon Valley ecosystem by supplying research funding and startup contracts.

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"Cold War and space-race government funding helped create the postwar Silicon Valley ecosystem by supplying research funding and startup contracts."

Hackford summarizes historical evidence that federal Cold War investment helped spark the postwar Valley ecosystem and gave young firms government contracts to compete for.

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Source title The Valley and the “Swamp”: Big Government in the History of Silicon Valley

Source authors Heidi Hackford

Source year 2019

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