3. Did California's Noncompete Ban Fuel Silicon Valley Innovation?
UnCommon Law
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The History of Fairchild Semiconductors
Evan Star: Fairchild semiconductor was founded in late 1957, a serendipitous time to form a semiconductor company. He says the engineers who left Shockley to form Fairchild didn't stop there; some of those employees left to form new companies. In California, non-compete agreements are simply unenforceable, he says. Evan Star: What developed in Silicon Valley was a culture of being able to move.
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