List of technology centers

Xerox Parc in 1977, an important technology lab in California's Silicon Valley

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[3] 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 Cameroon

Egypt Egypt

Kenya Kenya

  • Konza Technology City: launched in 2013, and set to host business process outsourcing (BPO) ventures, a science park, and other facilities

Mauritius Mauritius

Morocco Morocco

Nigeria Nigeria

South Africa South Africa

Zambia Zambia

Middle East and North Africa

United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates

State of Palestine Palestine

Iran Iran

Americas

Bolivia Bolivia

  • Urubó (Santa Cruz de la Sierra)

Brazil Brazil

Canada Canada

Chile Chile

Guatemala Guatemala

Mexico Mexico

United States United States

Uruguay Uruguay

Asia

Zhongguancun in Beijing.
Sri city Business Centre

China China

Hong Kong Hong Kong

India India

Indonesia Indonesia

Iran Iran

Israel Israel

Japan Japan

Malaysia Malaysia

Myanmar Myanmar

Pakistan Pakistan

Philippines Philippines

  • Light Industry and Science Park of the Philippines I & II, Laguna[31]
  • Light Industry and Science Park of the Philippines III, Batangas[31]
  • Light Industry and Science Park of the Philippines III, Batangas[31]
  • Light Industry and Science Park of the Philippines IV, Bataan[31]
  • Cebu Light Industry Park, Cebu[31]
  • Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija
  • Calamba Premiere International Park

Qatar Qatar

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia

Singapore Singapore

South Korea South Korea

Taiwan Taiwan

Southern Taiwan Science Park

Thailand Thailand

United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates

Uzbekistan Uzbekistan

Vietnam Vietnam

Europe

Austria Austria

Belarus Belarus

Belgium Belgium

  • BioWin: The Health Cluster of Wallonia

Bulgaria Bulgaria

One of the South Moravian Innovation Centre buildings: biotechnology incubator JIC INBIT in university campus in Brno, (Czech Republic)

Czech Republic Czech Republic

Finland Finland

France France

WISTA in Berlin (Silicon Allee)

Germany Germany

Hungary Hungary

Republic of Ireland Ireland

  • Dublin (known as "Silicon Docks" or "The European Silicon Valley", due to its high number of technological EMEA centres)

Italy Italy

Netherlands Netherlands

Portugal Portugal

Russia Russia

Romania 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 Serbia

  • Science Technology Park Belgrade
  • NTP Novi Sad

Slovakia Slovakia

Spain Spain

Sweden Sweden

Switzerland Switzerland

Turkey Turkey

United Kingdom United Kingdom

Ukraine Ukraine

Uzbekistan Uzbekistan

Oceania

Australia Australia

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

Americas

Brazil

Canada

Chile

Costa Rica

  • Silicon Paradise: Southern Nicoya Peninsula: Santa Teresa de Cobano, Delicias, Montezuma.

Mexico

United States

Asia

Europe

France

Germany

Greece

Ireland

Norway

  • SiliconFjord: Oslofjord region[52]

Russia

Switzerland

  • Ticino Valley: Technology cluster in the Lugano area

United Kingdom

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

References

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  52. ^ SiliconFjord
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  54. ^ "Silicon Spa". Archived from the original on 2014-03-01. Retrieved 2014-06-10.

Further reading

  • Kerr, William R., and Frederic Robert-Nicoud. 2020. "Tech Clusters." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 34 (3): 50–76.

External links

  • Comprehensive list of "Silicon" names
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