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

List

Africa

Cameroon

Smart Village 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

  • Cape Town is widely considered to be Africa's tech hub, and is referred to as the "Startup Capital of Africa". Home to hundreds of tech firms, the city is popular among digital nomads, and is the most economically attractive metro in South Africa for local and foreign investors.
  • Silicon Cape, Western Cape
  • Technopark Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch

Zambia

Middle East

Egypt

Iran

Israel

Palestine

Qatar

Saudi Arabia

United Arab Emirates

Americas

Bolivia

  • Urubó (Santa Cruz de la Sierra)

Brazil

Canada

Chile

Guatemala

Mexico

United States

Uruguay

Asia

Zhongguancun in Beijing
Sri City Business Centre

China

India

Indonesia

Japan

Malaysia

Myanmar

Pakistan

Philippines

Singapore Science Park

Singapore

South Korea

Taiwan

Southern Taiwan Science Park

Thailand

Uzbekistan

Vietnam

Europe

Austria

Belarus

Belgium

  • BioWin: The Health Cluster of Wallonia

Bulgaria

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

Czech Republic

Finland

France

WISTA in Berlin (Silicon Allee)

Germany

Hungary

Google EMEA Headquarters in Dublin

Ireland

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

Italy

AMOLF at the Amsterdam Science Park

Netherlands

Congress Center of Taguspark

Portugal

Russia

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 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 Dacia automotive park

Serbia

  • Science Technology Park Belgrade
  • NTP Novi Sad

Slovakia

Building 3.CUE University Enterprise Centre of the University of Valencia Science Park business area

Spain

Aerial overview of central Kista. Foto: JM AB. Fotograf: Gustav Kaiser
Aerial overview of central Kista

Sweden

Switzerland

Turkey

United Kingdom

Ukraine

Uzbekistan

Oceania

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

Technion Computer Science Faculty, in Haifa, part of Silicon Wadi, Israel

Middle East

Israel

United Arab Emirates

The Dubai Silicon Oasis Headquarters

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

Italy

  • Silicon Moda: Milan, Italy.

Norway

  • SiliconFjord: Oslofjord region
  • Silicon Harbor: Trondheim, Norway.

Russia

Skolkovo Innovation Center.

Switzerland

  • Ticino Valley: Technology cluster in the Lugano area

United Kingdom

Cambridge Science Park

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)[citation needed]
  • 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. "" Journal of Economic Perspectives, 34 (3): 50–76.

External links