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List of Technology Centers List of technology centers This is a list 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 Skyline of Silicon Valley's largest city: San Jose, California. 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 in nearby Contents Globally prominent clusters List Africa Americas Asia Europe Oceania Places with "Silicon" names Africa Americas Brazil Canada Chile Costa Rica Mexico United States Asia Europe France Germany Greece Ireland Norway Russia Switzerland United Kingdom Oceania Australia New Zealand See also Further reading References External links 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 Four tech companies, Apple and Google, has maintained dominance for decades in core industries such as microprocessor development as well as software and apps development Greater Seattle: one of the largest tech clusters in the world, home to two of the largest & wealthiest Big Fours: Microsoft and Amazon, as well as Boeing, Nintendo and most 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 Geneva, Switzerland is globally dominant in particle physics at CERN and various frontier scientific & technology research 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[1] in the coastal plain in Israel. Eindhoven, The Netherlands is a leading area in the field of semiconductor manufacturing, stemming from the Eindhoven University of Technology, ASML and Philips. List Africa Cameroon Silicon Mountain: most innovative startups in Buea Egypt Smart Village Egypt: part of Greater Cairo Maadi technology Park (https://www.itida.gov.eg/English/Pages/MaadiPark.aspx) Kenya Konza Technology City: launched in 2013, and set to host business process outsourcing (BPO) ventures, a science park, and other facilities Mauritius Ebene Cyber City Morocco Casablanca: Casablanca Technopark Nigeria Lagos: Yabacon Valley South Africa Silicon Cape, Western Cape Technopark Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch Zambia National Technology Business Centre (NTBC): Lusaka Americas Bolivia Urubó (Santa Cruz de la Sierra) Brazil Florianópolis Campinas, São Paulo, São José dos Campos, São Carlos: The Silicon Valley of Brazil Porto Digital: Recife 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 Markham, Ontario: home to the Canadian head offices of Sony, Avaya, IBM, Motorola, Toshiba, Lucent, Sun Microsystems, Apple, American Express and AMD Graphics Product Group Silicon Valley North: the National Capital Region around Ottawa, Ontario, Bayview Yards,— home to Mitel, Shopify, DragonWave, Alcatel Lucent, and Halogen Software Greater Toronto Area: specifically Mississauga and Brampton Cité Multimédia, Montreal Montréal Technoparc, Montréal Chile Parque Científico y Tecnológico Laguna Carén, Pudahuel, Santiago Parque Científico y Tecnológico Pacyt Bío Bío, Concepción Centro Antártico Internacional, Punta Arenas Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia de Valparaíso, Valparaíso Guatemala Guatemala City Mexico Guadalajara Mexico City Monterrey Queretaro Tijuana Cancun 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 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 Peach: Atlanta, Georgia Silicon Prairie: Metropolitan Dallas (primarily the northern region and its suburbs) Silicon Slopes: Salt Lake City, Utah including Utah County (Provo, Utah) and Summit County (Park City, Utah) and surrounding areas. Silicon Valley Tech Coast: broadly Southern California, Silicon Beach refers to emergent Santa Monica-LAX tech cluster. Tech Valley: The Capital District area of Albany, NY Telecom Corridor (an area in the Silicon Prairie): Richardson, suburb of Dallas, Texas Texas Medical Center: Houston, Texas Uruguay Zonamerica, Metropolitan Area of Montevideo: The Silicon Valley of Uruguay Parque de las Ciencias, Canelones, Canelones, Uruguay WTC Montevideo, Buceo, Montevideo Aguada Park, Aguada, Montevideo Asia China Jing-Jin-Ji: Beijing-Tianjin-Shijiazhuang Hi-Tech Industrial Belt Zhongguancun, Haidian District, Beijing Chengdu, Sichuan: Chengdu Tianfu Software Park[2] Dalian, Liaoning: Dalian Hi-tech Zone, Dalian Software Park Shenyang: Hunnan New Area Zhongguancun in Beijing. Shenzhen: Shenzhen Hi-Tech Industrial Park Shanghai: Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park[3] Hong Kong Cyberport: Hong Kong Island Hong Kong Science Park: New Territories India Software Technology Parks of India Bangalore: Electronics City, International Tech Park, Bangalore, Manyata Embassy Business Park: Bangalore Delhi IT Park : Delhi Sri city Business Centre Pune: Cyber City, Hinjawadi, Magarpatta HITEC City: Hyderabad Knowledge Corridor: between Pune and Mumbai Cyber City, Gurgaon, Haryana: near Delhi Noida, Uttar Pradesh: DLF IT Park Chennai: IT Corridor, Mahindra World City, New Chennai, DLF SEZ, Automotive Corridor, EMS Corridor, SEZ Corridor, Chennai ITIR, Entertainment Corridor, SIPCOT IT Park, Tidel Park, Olympia Tech Park, International Tech Park, Chennai, Ramanujan IT City, Ambattur Industrial Estate, Guindy Industrial Estate, World Trade Center, Cybervale, EPIP, Irungattukottai Industrial Park, Sriperumbudur Industrial Park, Oragadam Industrial Growth Center, Ennore SEZ Sricity, Andhra Pradesh: near Tirupati IKP-Alexandria Biotech Knowledge Park: Hyderabad IT City, Lucknow MIHAN: Nagpur Cyberabad: Hyderabad Bhubaneswar: Infovalley,[4][5] Odisha Biotech Park [6][7] InfoPark, Kochi Technopark, Trivandrum Indonesia Bandung Batam Jakarta Malang Yogyakarta Iran Pardis Technology Park[8] in Pardis, Iran's Silicon Valley Israel Tel Aviv/Mediterranean Coastal Region: referred to as Silicon Wadi, an area with a high concentration of high-tech industries[1] in the coastal plain in Israel. Israel as a whole country has strong innovation in Cyber Security, Agritech and more. The Silicon Wadi area covers much of the country, although especially high concentrations of hi-tech industry can be found in the area around Tel Aviv, including small clusters around the cities of Ra'anana, Petah Tikva, Herzliya, Netanya, the academic city of Rehovot and its neighbour Rishon Le Zion. In addition, hi-tech clusters can be found in Haifa and Caesarea. More recent hi-tech establishments have been raised in Jerusalem (Technology
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