List of technology centers explained
This is a list some of technology centers throughout the world. Government planners and business networks often incorporate "silicon" or "valley" into place names to describe their own areas as a result of the success of Silicon Valley in California. Metrics may be applied to measure qualitative differences between these places, including:
- How much and to what extent public and/or private research and development (R&D) funds are spent in the zones
- What percentage of local employment is technology related
- If the zone is mainly government funded or is mainly corporate driven (or is it a mix of both)
- If mainly corporate, how much revenue and profit and which corporations have headquarters there
- If mainly corporate, how much venture capital has been made available to companies in the zone
- What supporting higher educational institutions (e.g., universities or colleges) are located nearby
Globally prominent clusters
- Silicon Valley: Originating in Stanford University (Palo Alto and Menlo Park), and spreading south towards San Jose, California, and suburbs. San Francisco and nearby areas including Berkeley and Oakland are technically not part of Silicon Valley but have seen growth in industries such as web development since the 90s and venture capital. Silicon Valley, home to two of the largest Big Tech companies, Apple and Google, has maintained dominance for decades in core industries such as microprocessor development as well as software and apps development[1] [2]
- Greater Seattle
one of the largest tech clusters in the world, home to two of the largest & wealthiest Big Tech companies: Microsoft and Amazon, as well as Boeing, Nintendo, and most other major tech players have significant presence and research centers in Greater Seattle. University of Washington and Puget Sound vicinity is also home to a large numbers of notable companies & startups in Life Sciences, biotechnology, medical, video/online game, aerospace, aviation, fintech, technology investment, funds, venture capital, as well as various research & technology centers
- Cambridge Cluster: The name given to the region around Cambridge, England, which is home to a large cluster of high-tech businesses focusing on software, electronics and biotechnology, among others AstraZeneca. Many of these businesses have connections with the University of Cambridge, and the area is now one of the most important technology centres in Europe
- IT cluster Rhine-Main-Neckar, Germany: Europe's largest software cluster, is globally dominant in business software, IT security research and biopharmaceuticals
- Shenzhen-Hong Kong Greater Bay Area: Asia's largest technology cluster, is globally dominant in tech manufacturing, consumer software, research, serving global and largest tech consumer market. Home to some of the largest global tech companies, such as Tencent and others
- Geneva, Switzerland is globally dominant in particle physics at CERN and various frontier scientific & technology research
- Greater Shanghai, including Hangzhou and others in Yangtze River Delta, is globally dominant technology cluster with companies such as Alibaba, Apple, Amazon and Tesla global manufacturing
- Dulles Technology Corridor is globally dominant in telecom, satellite, and defense industries
- Hsinchu Science Park: Greater Hsinchu City and Hsinchu County, Taiwan is the dominant area worldwide for pure-play semiconductor foundry market
- Silicon Alley is a portion of Manhattan, New York City, that encompasses Broadway, the Flatiron District, SoHo, and TriBeCa technology centers
- Silicon Wadi: An area with a high concentration of high-tech industries in the coastal plain in Israel.
- Eindhoven, The Netherlands is a leading area in technology, stems from Eindhoven University of Technology, ASML and Philips.
- Toronto and Waterloo Region is a globally prominent technology corridor with companies such as BlackBerry, Desire2Learn and research centers including the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and MaRS Discovery District.
List
Africa
Cameroon
Egypt
Kenya
- Konza Technology City: launched in 2013, and set to host business process outsourcing (BPO) ventures, a science park, and other facilities
Mauritius
Morocco
Nigeria
South Africa
Zambia
Middle East and North Africa
United Arab Emirates
Palestine
Iran
Americas
Bolivia
- Urubó (Santa Cruz de la Sierra)
Brazil
Canada
- Canada's Technology Triangle with Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario: home to BlackBerry (formerly Research in Motion), Open Text, Kik Messenger, Desire2Learn, and the Canadian head office of Google; home to the Communitech HUB start-up incubator
- Greater Vancouver, British Columbia: home to Sony Pictures Imageworks, PMC-Sierra, Telus, Hootsuite, EA Canada, Vision Critical, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates, Westport Innovations, Slack Technologies, Teradici and D-Wave Systems
- Silicon Valley North: the National Capital Region around Ottawa, Ontario, Bayview Yards,—home to Mitel, Shopify, DragonWave, Alcatel Lucent, and Halogen Software
- Markham, Ontario: home to the Canadian head offices of Sony, Avaya, IBM, Motorola, Toshiba, Lucent, Sun Microsystems, American Express and AMD Graphics Product Group
- Greater Toronto Area: specifically Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Markham
- Cité Multimédia, Montreal
- Technoparc Montreal
Chile
Guatemala
Mexico
United States
- Automation Alley: Metropolitan Detroit, primarily Oakland County, Michigan
- Cummings Research Park: Huntsville, Alabama
- Denver Tech Center: Denver, Colorado
- Dulles Technology Corridor: Northern Virginia near Washington Dulles Airport
- Greater Seattle
- Golden Corridor: Near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport and Northwest Suburbs
- Greater Reno, Nevada
- Illinois Technology and Research Corridor: DuPage County, Illinois
- New Mexico Technology Corridor: Los Alamos to Las Cruces, centered on Albuquerque metropolitan area
- Optics Valley: Tucson, Arizona
- Research Triangle: Raleigh–Durham–Chapel Hill, North Carolina, centered on Research Triangle Park
- Route 128: Eastern Massachusetts
- Silicon Alley: New York City
- Silicon Beach: Playa Vista in West Los Angeles
- Silicon Hills: Austin, Texas and its suburbs
- Silicon Forest: Portland, Oregon
- Silicon Slopes: Salt Lake City, Utah including Utah County (Provo, Utah) and Summit County (Park City, Utah) and surrounding areas.
- Tech Coast: broadly Southern California, Silicon Beach refers to emergent Santa Monica–LAX tech cluster.
- Tech Valley: The Capital District area of Albany, New York
- Telecom Corridor (an area in the Silicon Prairie): Richardson, suburb of Dallas, Texas
- Texas Medical Center: Houston, Texas
Uruguay
Asia
China
Hong Kong
India
See also: Software Technology Parks of India.
- Chennai: DLF Cyber City, Mahindra World City, Ramanujan IT City, SIPCOT IT Park, TIDEL Park, Olympia Tech Park, One Indiabulls Park, International Tech Park, Information Technology Investment Region, Ambattur Industrial Estate, Guindy Industrial Estate, EMS Corridor, SEZ Corridor, Entertainment Corridor, IT Corridor, Automotive Corridor
- Bangalore: Electronic City, International Tech Park, Manyata Embassy Business Park, Bagmane Tech Park, Global Village Tech Park
- Thiruvananthapuram: Technopark, Technocity, Thiruvananthapuram
- Kochi: Cyber City, InfoPark, SmartCity, Muthoot Technopolis
- Hyderabad: HITEC City, Genome Valley
- Pune: Cyber City Hinjawadi, Magarpatta
- Kolkata: Salt Lake Electronics Complex
- Delhi: Delhi IT Park
- Gurgaon: Cyber City
- Noida: DLF IT Park
- Lucknow: IT City
- Navi Mumbai: Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City
- Alappuzha: Infopark, Cherthala
- Kozhikode: Cyberpark
- Kollam: Technopark
- Thrissur: InfoPark
- Tirupati: Sri City
- Coimbatore: KCT Tech Park
- Tiruchirappalli: ELCOT IT Park
- Bhubaneswar: Info Valley,[5] [6] Odisha Biotech Park [7] [8]
Indonesia
Iran
Israel
- Tel Aviv/Mediterranean Coastal Region: referred to as Silicon Wadi, an area with a high concentration of high-tech industries in the coastal plain in Israel. Israel as a whole country has a strong high-tech sector. The Silicon Wadi area covers much of the country, although especially high concentrations of hi-tech industry can be found in Tel Aviv and its metropolitan area, known as Gush Dan, including small clusters around the cities of Ra'anana, Petah Tikva, Herzliya, Netanya, the academic city of Rehovot and its neighbor Rishon LeZion. In addition, hi-tech clusters can be found in Haifa and Caesarea. Jerusalem also has significant high-tech establishments (Technology Park, Malha, Har Hotzvim and JVP Media Quarter in Talpiot). Another notable high-tech park is the Startup Village in Yokneam Illit. Yehud hosts Hewlett Packard Enterprise's software campus[10] and other IT and high-tech companies.
Japan
Malaysia
- Technology Park Malaysia (TPM), Kuala Lumpur[14]
- Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) / Cyberjaya, Selangor
- Selangor Science Park, Selangor
- Selangor Science Park 2, Selangor[15]
- Subang Hi-Tech Industrial Park, Selangor
- FRIM-MTDC Technology Centre, Selangor[16]
- UPM-MTDC Technology Centre, Selangor[17]
- UKM-MTDC Technology Centre. Selangor[18]
- UITM-MTDC Technology Centre. Selangor[19]
- Penang (Known as "Silicon Valley of the East") [20] [21] [22] [23]
- Penang Science Park, Penang
- Penang Cybercity, Penang[24]
- MSC Cyberport, Johor[25]
- Johor Technology Park, Johor
- Nusajaya Tech Park, Johor[26]
- UTM-MTDC Technology Centre, Technovation Park, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Johor[27]
- Kulim Hi-Tech Park (KHTP), Kedah[28]
Myanmar
Pakistan
Philippines
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
South Korea
- Daedeok Science Town, Daejeon
- Digital Media City, Seoul
- LG Science Park, Seoul
- Pangyo Techno Valley, Gyeonggi[32]
- Samsung Town, Seoul
- Gumi Technology Industrial Park, Gumi, North Gyeongsang
- Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, North Gyeongsang
- Changwon Industrial Park, South Gyeongsang
- Ulsan technological park, South Gyeongsang
- Songdo, Incheon, Gyeonggi-do
- Teheran Valley, Seoul
Taiwan
Thailand
United Arab Emirates
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
Europe
Austria
Belarus
Belgium
- BioWin: The Health Cluster of Wallonia
Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Finland
France
Germany
Hungary
Ireland
- Dublin (known as "Silicon Docks" or "The European Silicon Valley", due to its high number of technological EMEA centres)
Italy
Netherlands
Portugal
Russian naukograds
- Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk
- Skolkovo Innovation Center, Skolkovo, Moscow Oblast
- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
- Biysk, Altai region
- Dubna, Zhukovsky, Korolev, Protvino, Pushchino, Reutov, Troitsk, Fryazino, Chernogolovka, Skolkovo in Moscow region
- Koltsovo, Novosibirsk region
- Michurinsk, Tambov region
- Obninsk, Kaluga region
- Petergof near St. Petersburg
- Sirius near Sochi[38]
- Innopolis, near Kazan'[39]
Romania
- Bucharest
- Grozăvești including Politehnica Campus, Regie Campus, Sema Park, Afi Park and Orhideea Offices
- Pipera including Pipera Park, Aviației Offices and Piața Pipera Offices
- Măgurele including the European laser technology institute
- Romexpo including Expozitiei Offices, Tipografiei Offices and Jiului Offices
- Militari including West Gate Offices
- Cluj-Napoca[40]
- Între Lacuri start-up offices
- Jucu technology park
- Iași
- Palas-Sfântul Andrei Offices
- Craiova
- S200 technology park including Universitatea Campus
- Ford automotive park
- Timișoara
- Openville
- Vox Technology Park
- Pitești
Serbia
- Science Technology Park Belgrade
- NTP Novi Sad
Slovakia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
United Kingdom
Ukraine
Uzbekistan
Oceania
Australia
- South Eveleigh, Sydney, New South Wales
- Digital Harbour, Docklands, Melbourne, Victoria
- Macquarie Park, Sydney, New South Wales (including the Research Park, Macquarie University)
- Technology Park Bentley, Perth, Western Australia (adjacent to Curtin University)
Places with "Silicon" names
The following list contains places with "Silicon" names, that is, places with nicknames inspired by the Silicon Valley nickname given to part of the San Francisco Bay Area:
Africa
Middle East and North Africa
Israel
UAE
Americas
Brazil
Canada
Chile
Costa Rica
- Silicon Paradise: Santa Teresa de Cobano, Delicias, Montezuma.
Mexico
United States
- Philicon Valley (also known as "Silicon Valley Forge"): Area close to Philadelphia, in the suburbs of Valley Forge and Wayne[45]
- Research Forest: The Woodlands, Texas
- Silicon Alley: Originally a portion of Manhattan in New York City, specifically Broadway, the Flatiron District, SoHo, and TriBeCa. Now encompasses the general NYC tech sphere.
- Silicon Anchor: Norfolk–Virginia Beach metropolitan area
- Silicon Basin: Columbus, Ohio Silicon Bayou: New Orleans, Louisiana
- Silicon Beach: Santa Monica, California and the Westside area of the Los Angeles metro, more specifically Culver City, Venice Beach, Westwood, Manhattan Beach, Malibu, Playa del Rey, and Marina del Rey; also used to refer to the San Diego area in the name of the 1980s software developer Silicon Beach Software. There is also Silicon Beach in South Florida in the Miami area.[46] [47] [48]
- Silicon Coast: Orange County, California
- Silicon Desert: Chandler, Arizona[49]
- Silicon Forest: Portland, Oregon
- Silicon Harbor: Charleston, South Carolina
- Silicon Hill: Washington, D.C.
- Silicon Hills: Austin, Texas
- Silicon Hollar: Boone, North Carolina[50]
- Silicon Mountain: Front Range Urban Corridor, Colorado (Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins, Colorado Springs)
- Silicon Peach: Atlanta home to Georgia Institute of Technology as well as VMware Airwatch, Google ATL, Kabbage, Pindrop Security, and many venture capital firms
- Silicon Prairie
- Silicon Sandbar: Cape Cod, Massachusetts
- Silicon Shire: Eugene, Oregon
- Silicon Shore: Santa Barbara, California
- Silicon Slopes: Utah County and southern Salt Lake County, Utah
- Silicon Surf: Santa Cruz, California
- Silicon Valley
San Jose, California (the original "Silicon" namesake)
Asia
- Silicon Harbor: Hong Kong, China
- Silicon Island: Kyushu, Japan
- Silicon Peninsula: Dalian, China
- Silcion Valley of Korea: Gumi, Gyeongbuk
- China's Silicon Valley: Shenzhen or Zhongguancun, Haidian District, Beijing, People's Republic of China (PRC).[51]
- Silicon Valley of India (sometimes referred to as Silicon Plateau): Bangalore
- Silicon Valley of Taiwan: Hsinchu, Taiwan
- Silicon Valley of Hong Kong: Cyberport and Hong Kong Science Park
- Silicon Valley of the East: Bayan Lepas Free Industrial Zone, Penang, Malaysia
- Silicon Wadi: The coastal plain of Israel, stretching from Haifa to Tel Aviv and Rehovot and expanding inland to Jerusalem
- Teheran Valley: Gangnam District, Seoul, South Korea
Europe
France
Germany
Greece
Ireland
Italy
- Silicon Moda: Milan,Italy
Norway
- SiliconFjord: Oslofjord region[52]
Russia
Switzerland
- Ticino Valley: Technology cluster in the Lugano area
United Kingdom
- Cwm Silicon (Newport, Wales)
- Silicon Alley (Pink Lane, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England)
- Silicon Beach (Bournemouth, England)
- Silicon Canal (Birmingham, England): the area along the Digbeth Branch Canal from Aston Science Park, through Millennium Point to Digbeth.
- Silicon Corridor (the M4 corridor)
- Silicon Dock (Belfast)
- Silicon Fen (Cambridge, England[53])
- Silicon Forest (Newark, Nottinghamshire): Silicon Forest consists of various businesses from in and around the Newark and Sherwood area that specialise in technology and innovation.
- Silicon Glen (Central Belt, Scotland)
- Silicon Gorge (Bristol, England)
- Silicon Mall (London, England): the area between Pall Mall and Victoria in London
- Silicon Pier (Brighton, England)
- Silicon Roundabout: the area around Old Street Roundabout in London (East London Tech City)
- Silicon Shipyard (Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, Middlesbrough)
- Silicon Spa (Leamington Spa, Warwickshire):[54] Notable for a relatively high concentration of video game developers.
- Silicon Walk (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Oceania
Australia
- Silicon Mallee (Adelaide, Australia; Mallee, an Australian aboriginal word for the land area around Adelaide covered by low, scrubby dwarf eucalyptus "mallee" vegetation)
- Silicon St, Sydney" An inner city colloquial district including Ultimo/Pyrmont along Harris St spanning 10 km2 from UTS to Google including Fishburners
- Silicon Beach: A term used by those in the Australian startup community to refer to the startup ecosystem within Australian cities, in particular by Meetup groups like Silicon Beach Sydney and Silicon Beach Adelaide
New Zealand
See also
Further reading
- Kerr, William R., and Frederic Robert-Nicoud. 2020. "Tech Clusters." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 34 (3): 50–76.
External links
Notes and References
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- http://techpark.ir/?/frontpage_en/lang=en Pardis Tech Park
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- Web site: Tsukuba Science City . 30 October 2020.
- Web site: Yokosuka Research Park . 30 October 2020.
- Web site: Technology Park Malaysia. 4 January 2017.
- Web site: Selangor Science Park 2 Moving At Snail's Pace. 4 January 2017.
- Web site: FRIM-MTDC – Malaysian Technology Development Corporation. 4 January 2017.
- Web site: UPM-MTDC – Malaysian Technology Development Corporation. 4 January 2017.
- Web site: UKM-MTDC – Malaysian Technology Development Corporation. 4 January 2017.
- Web site: UITM-MTDC – Malaysian Technology Development Corporation. 4 January 2017.
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- Web site: Nusajaya Tech Park. 4 January 2017.
- Web site: UTM-MTDC – Malaysian Technology Development Corporation. 4 January 2017.
- Web site: Kulim Hi-Tech Park. 4 January 2017.
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- http://www.nksp.org.tw Nankang Software Park
- http://www.giant-grenoble.org/en/ GIANT Campus
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- Web site: How Florianópolis became "Brazil's Silicon Valley" . 23 August 2019 . 2 February 2024.
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- Web site: Zhongguancun, China's Silicon Valley.
- http://SiliconFjord.no SiliconFjord
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