Innovation is the force that drives job growth and economic staying power in this country, a fact embraced by Michael Dell and California Gov. Brown as they opened the Dell Silicon Valley Research and Development Center. Dell is adding thousands of new jobs throughout the United States during the upcoming year to strategically expand their technology solutions capabilities.

Both Gov. Brown and Santa Clara Mayor Jamie Matthews spoke at the opening ceremony for the new center, with the governor explaining how “California is the world capital of innovation and technology, so it’s only natural that Dell has chosen Santa Clara as the home for its newest research and development facility.” He says, “This new facility will create hundreds of cutting-edge technology jobs at a time when we need them most. Dell has made a sound investment by expanding in California, and I look forward to further expansions of Dell’s presence here in the Golden State.”

The team members and public officials gathered outside of what Michael Dell hopes will become the innovative nexus of Silicon Valley. An estimated 700 team members will be employed in the 240,000 square feet that spans the two buildings. In order to ensure its success, Michael Dell elaborates that Dell is “...making significant and thoughtful investments to develop and acquire industry-leading intellectual property” and that the location “Silicon Valley is a center of technological innovation...”

As for the individuals he hopes to gather to his banner “...we are looking to recruit from the great talent pool here for high-level jobs in network design, storage development, cloud computing and software development. The new positions we add here are part of more than 1,500 jobs we’re creating in the U.S. this year to help expand our technology solutions portfolio.”

The Santa Clara area is widely known as a center for world-class innovators, stable businesses, and talented technological labor. The Silicon Valley site, like the Dell Research and Development Center located in Ra’anana, Israel, is part of Dell’s plan to expand its technological muscle in hotbeds of innovative talent. Reaching from its headquarters in Round Rock, Texas, Dell is looking to build in city areas with similar demographics like Atlanta, Minneapolis, Nashua, Nashville, and Oklahoma City.

Michael Dell summarizes the strategic talent search behind their development by stating “our ongoing expansion in the U.S. demonstrates how American companies and communities can grow in a global, knowledge-based economy by prioritizing and investing in a highly educated, skilled workforce, a positive business environment and solid infrastructure.”