Essays about: "Silicon Valley"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 28 essays containing the words Silicon Valley.

  1. 1. Different regulatory regimes and banking crises - The role of moral hazard

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Felix Olsson-Lejon; [2023]
    Keywords : Moral hazard; Bonus regulations; Liquidity regulations; Silicon Valley Bank; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Since 1988 there have been international attempts to regulate banks with the Basel Rules; despite these international efforts to regulate banks within the Basel Rules, the rules have been insufficient. The financial crisis of 2008 highlighted the importance of regulatory oversight in the banking sector. READ MORE

  3. 2. Imagining the Metaverse Worlds : The Perspectives of Meta and Indonesians

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

    Author : Hamzah Dzikri Fadliansyah; [2022]
    Keywords : actor-network theory; civic imagination; digital technology; Indonesia Indonesian tech workers; mediatization; Meta; metaverse; postdigital; science and technology studies; sociotechnical imaginaries; technological convergence; transmedia; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : On October 28, 2021, Mark Zuckerberg announced the rebranding of Facebook to Meta through a keynote video uploaded on Meta’s official YouTube channel. The keynote video contains Meta’s new vision to build an immersive extended reality world called metaverse. However, the idea of the metaverse is contested. READ MORE

  4. 3. Digital Disconnection in Swedish News Media. A critical discourse analysis.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation

    Author : Hörstadius Lundblad Maia; [2021-07-27]
    Keywords : Digital disconnection; media representations; critical discourse analysis; political consumerism; social media;

    Abstract : The use of new information- and communication technologies, and social media platforms in particular, has rapidly increased from 2010-2012, when social media ‘boomed’ in Sweden. Thereafter, these platforms have become integrated in all aspects of everyday life – in the social as well as the functional, e.g. READ MORE

  5. 4. Citizens resisting Smart Cities’ initiatives : The case of Concepción (Chile) and the R+D PACYT project.

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Natalia Belén Sandoval Quezada; [2021]
    Keywords : Smart cities; urban social conflict; right to the city; flagship projects; corporate storytelling; placebo interventions.;

    Abstract : Parque Científico y Tecnológico (PACYT, Science and Technology Park) is a large-scale R+D project that seems to be framed in a Smart City plan for Concepción, Chile, which the media has presented as “the Chilean Silicon Valley” (Araus, 2015; Tele13, 2019) and promises to bring not only research and development opportunities for the city but also thousands of direct and indirect jobs (Estudio Interdiseño, 2018; la Tercera, 2015) carried out by PACYT Corporation. Nonetheless, voices have raised to question the construction of the 91 hectares initiative, and some of them have even organized in citizen groups targeting the creation of the urban complex, which actively share information contesting the PACYT through social media, and coordinate activities to protest and spread the word. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Effects of Non-Compete Agreements Enforceability on Entrepreneurship in the United States, 1995-2011

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Yotam Sofer; [2020]
    Keywords : Non-compete agreements; NCA; current population survey; CPS; business dynamics statistics; DBS; Firms starts; start-ups; Silicon-Valley; Route 128; knowledge spillovers; state-year variation; Difference-in-difference; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Restrictions of future employment in the form of non-compete agreements (agreements that restrict an employee from joining, forming, associating, or starting a competing firm) are commonly used in the American labor market. Yet their effects on entrepreneurship is not fully understood. READ MORE