The Evolution of Silicon Valley’s Innovation Ecosystem: From 2006 to 2016.

Silicon Valley Innovation Ecosystem keeps finding ways to improve and become more efficient. We aim to understand how and why Silicon Valley evolves by identifying changes on the role played by the Triple Helix Agents (Universities, Government and Industry) from to 2006 to 2016. We also aim to identify if changes in one of the agents trigger evolution of the others. From the startup perspective, we identify — applying case-study methodologies — how

the role of Triple Helix Agents affects each stage of the startup development process. A qualitative study is based on key interviews and a quantitative study is included in order to validate the findings from the interviews. By identifying the changes, we conclude that the role of the Triple Helix agents evolves over time and therefore the Innovative Ecosystem also evolves over time.