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 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 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
- 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 are located in nearby
Globally prominent clusters
- Silicon Valley: Originating in Stanford University, 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 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 web 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
- IT cluster Rhine-Main-Neckar, Germany: Europe's largest software cluster, is globally dominant in business software, IT security research and biopharmaceuticals
- CERN in Geneva, Switzerland is globally dominant in particle physics
- Dulles Technology Corridor is globally dominant in telecom, satellite, and defense industries
- Hsinchu Science Park: 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 Fen: 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. 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
- Silicon Wadi: An area with a high concentration of high-tech industries 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, and the Startup Village Ecosystem in the Yokneam area
List
Africa
Cameroon- Silicon Mountain: most innovative startups in Buea
- Smart Village Egypt: part of Greater Cairo
Kenya
- Konza Technology City: launched in 2013, and set to host business process outsourcing ventures, a science park, and other facilities
Morocco
- Casablanca: Casablanca Technopark
Zambia
- National Technology Business Centre : Lusaka
Americas
Brazil
- Florianópolis
- Campinas, São Paulo, São José dos Campos, São Carlos: The Silicon Valley of Brazil
- Porto Digital: Recife
- Canada's Technology Triangle with Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario: home to BlackBerry, 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
- 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
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
- Eastside: Puget Sound or Greater Seattle
- Golden Corridor: Near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport and Northwest Suburbs
- 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 Prairie: Metropolitan Dallas
- Silicon Slopes: Salt Lake City, Utah including Utah County and Summit County 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 : Richardson, suburb of Dallas, Texas
- Texas Medical Center: Houston, Texas
- 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
- Zhongguancun, Haidian District, Beijing
- Chengdu, Sichuan: Chengdu Tianfu Software Park
- Dalian, Liaoning: Dalian Hi-Tech Zone, Dalian Software Park
- Shenyang: Hunnan New Area
- Shenzhen: Shenzhen Hi-Tech Industrial Park
- Shanghai: Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park
- Cyberport: Hong Kong Island
- Hong Kong Science Park: New Territories
- Software Technology Parks of India
- Bangalore: Electronics City, International Tech Park, Bangalore, Manyata Embassy Business Park: Bangalore
- Delhi IT Park : Delhi
- 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
- Batam: Nagoya, Batam
- Pardis Technology Park in Pardis, Iran's Silicon Valley
- 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 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, and the Startup Village Ecosystem in the Yokneam area. Yehud hosts Hewlett Packard Enterprise's software campus and other IT and High Tech companies including Ticomsoft, Flame-Ware Solutions, RegiSoft, Fenavic, Bgate, and BYON IT Solutions.
- Yokneam Illit: with over 100 high-tech companies concentrated in a small area that is nicknamed "Startup Village"
- Kansai Science City, on the borders of Kyoto, Osaka and Nara Prefectures
- Tsukuba Science City, Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture
- Yokosuka Research Park, Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture
- Technology Park Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
- Multimedia Super Corridor / Cyberjaya, Selangor
- Selangor Science Park, Selangor
- Selangor Science Park 2, Selangor
- Subang Hi-Tech Industrial Park, Selangor
- FRIM-MTDC Technology Centre, Selangor
- UPM-MTDC Technology Centre, Selangor
- UKM-MTDC Technology Centre. Selangor
- UITM-MTDC Technology Centre. Selangor
- Penang
- Penang Science Park, Penang
- Penang Cybercity, Penang
- MSC Cyberport, Johor
- Johor Technology Park, Johor
- Nusajaya Tech Park, Johor
- UTM-MTDC Technology Centre, Technovation Park, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Johor
- Kulim Hi-Tech Park, Kedah
Pakistan
- National Science and Technology Park
- Arfa Karim Technology Park : Lahore
- IT Media City: Karachi
- National Science Park: Islamabad
- Light Industry and Science Park of the Philippines I & II, Laguna
- Light Industry and Science Park of the Philippines III, Batangas
- Light Industry and Science Park of the Philippines III, Batangas
- Light Industry and Science Park of the Philippines IV, Bataan
- Cebu Light Industry Park, Cebu
- Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija
- Calamba Premiere International Park
Saudi Arabia
- Riyadh Techno Valley, Riyadh
- Dhahran Techno-Valley, Dhahran
- King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh
- Singapore Science Park The southwestern corner of Singapore
- Daedeok Science Town, Daejeon
- Digital Media City, Seoul
- Pangyo Techno Valley, the Silicon Valley of South Korea
- Samsung Town
- New Songdo City, Incheon
- Teheran Valley, Seoul
- Gumi
- Central Taiwan Science Park: Changhua County, Nantou County, Taichung City and Yunlin County
- Southern Taiwan Science Park: Kaohsiung City and Tainan City
- Nankang Software Park: Taipei City
- Thailand Science Park, north of Bangkok
- Software Park Thailand, Bangkok
- Dubai Internet City, Dubai
- Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai
- Dubai Media City, Dubai
- Masdar City, Abu Dhabi
Austria
- Softwarepark Hagenberg: Hagenberg, Upper Austria
- VRVis Research Center: Vienna
- Belarus High Technologies Park: Minsk
- South Moravian Innovation Centre: Brno
- Vědeckotechnický park
- Otaniemi: near Helsinki
- Paris-Saclay
- GIANT: Grenoble
- Metz Science Park: Metz Technopole
- Toulouse: Toulouse Sud-Est: Agrobiopole, Labège-Innopole, Aerospace Valley
- Valbonne: Sophia Antipolis
- Villeneuve-d'Ascq: Technopôle Lille Métropole
Germany
- IT-Cluster Rhein-Main-Neckar, Frankfurt Rhine-Main and Rhine-Neckar
- Berlin: known as Silicon Allee, one of Europe's most dynamic technology, IT and startup centers
- Dresden
- Kaiserslautern
- Dortmund
- Karlsruhe
- Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: BioCon Valley for its life science and biotechnology clusters
- Munich
- Western Pomerania
- WISTA
- : Budapest
Italy
Netherlands
- Science Park Amsterdam: Amsterdam
- High Tech Campus Eindhoven: Eindhoven
- Technopolis Innovation Park Delft: Delft
- Utrecht Science Park: Utrecht
Russia
- Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk
- Skolkovo Innovation Center, Skolkovo, Moscow Oblast
- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
- Innopolis, near Kazan'
- 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
- Kosice IT Valley: Košice
Sweden
Switzerland
- Crypto Valley: Zug
- ITU Arı Technopolis:
- METU Technopolis: Ankara
- Hacettepe Technopolis: Ankara
- Oxford Science Park: Oxford
- Silicon Corridor: M4 corridor, Reading, Berkshire
- Silicon Fen: Cambridge
- Silicon Glen: in Central Scotland
- Silicon Gorge: Bristol
- Silicon Roundabout: London
- Silicon Spa: Leamington Spa
- UNIT.city: Kiev
Oceania
- Australian Technology Park, Eveleigh, Sydney, New South Wales
- Digital Harbour, Docklands, Melbourne, Victoria
- Macquarie Park, Sydney, New South Wales
- Technology Park, Bentley, Perth, Western Australia
Places with "Silicon" names
Africa
- Silicon Cape: Cape Town, South Africa
- Silicon Lagoon: Lagos, Nigeria
- Silicon Mountain: Buea, Cameroon
- Silicon Savannah: Nairobi, Kenya
Americas
Brazil
- Brazilian Silicon Valley: Campinas, Brazil
Canada
- Silicon Valley of the North: Ontario Highway 401 between Toronto and Waterloo A related area was also promoted as Canada's Technology Triangle.
- Silicon Valley North: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, though questionable since the 2009 bankruptcy of Nortel and the 2008 pull-out of Dell's call centre
- Silicon Vineyard: Okanagan Valley, Canada
Chile
- Chilecon Valley: Santiago, Chile. The name was first coined by The Economist. Santiago is home of Start-Up Chile, the most important government sponsored accelerator worldwide.
Costa Rica
- Silicon Paradise: Southern Nicoya Peninsula: Santa Teresa de Cobano, Delicias, Montezuma.
Mexico
- Mexican Silicon Valley/Silicon Valley South: Jalisco, Mexico
- Silicon Border: Mexicali, Mexico
Peru
- Lima Valley: Lima, Peru
United States
- New Mexico Technology Corridor: The Rio Grande Valley from Santa Fe to Las Cruces that includes multiple small and large high-tech companies, defense contractors, military installations, and national laboratories.
- Philicon Valley : Area close to Philadelphia, in the suburbs of Valley Forge and Wayne
- Research Forest: The Woodlands, TX
- 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, Va–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
- Silicon Canal: The area of Seattle, Washington along the Fremont Cut.
- Silicon Coast: Orange County, California
- Silicon Desert: Chandler, Arizona
- Silicon Forest: Portland, Oregon
- Silicon Harbor: Charleston, South Carolina; Stamford, Connecticut
- Silicon Hill: Washington, D.C.
- Silicon Hills: Austin, Texas
- Silicon Hollar: Boone, North Carolina
- Silicon Mountain: Front Range Urban Corridor, Colorado
- Silicon Peach: Atlanta, Georgia home to Georgia Institute of Technology as well as VMware Airwatch, Google ATL, Kabbage, Pindrop, and many venture capital firms
- Silicon Prairie
- * Dallas-Fort Worth Silicon Prairie: Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Texas
- * Illinois Silicon Prairie: Chicago and Urbana-Champaign
- * Midwest Silicon Prairie: Omaha, St. Louis, Des Moines, Kansas City
- * Wyoming Silicon Prairie, also called the "Silicon Range": Jackson Hole
- 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
- Silicon Valley of the Sierras: Nevada County, California
- Silicotton Valley: Huntsville, Alabama
- Silicon Spuds: Idaho Falls, Idaho
Asia
- Silicon Island: Kyushu, Japan
- Silicon Peninsula: Dalian, China
- China's Silicon Valley: Shenzhen or Zhongguancun, Haidian District, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
- Silicon Valley of India : Bangalore
- Silicon Valley of Taiwan: Hsinchu, Taiwan
- Silicon Valley of Hong Kong: Cyberport and Hong Kong Science Park
- Dubai Silicon Oasis
- 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
- Silicon Sentier: Paris, France
Germany
- BioCon Valley: Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania
- Isar Valley: Munich, Bavaria
- Medical Valley: Erlangen, Bavaria
- Silicon Allee : Berlin
- Silicon Saxony: Dresden, Saxony, Elbe river valley around the city
- Silicon Woods: Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate
Greece
- Silicon Islands: Patras with past and present companies like Atmel, Samsung, Citrix, Dialog Semiconductor, Think Silicon and Intel
Ireland
- Silicon Docks: Dublin, Ireland. Contains the European headquarters of companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, and many others.
Norway
- SiliconFjord: Oslofjord region
Russia
- Russian Silicon Valley:
- * Skolkovo innovation center
- * Zelenograd, Moscow
- Silicon Sloboda: Moscow, Russia
- Silicon Taiga: Akademgorodok, Russia
Switzerland
- Ticino Valley: Technology cluster in the Lugano area
United Kingdom
- Cwm Silicon
- Silicon Alley
- Silicon Beach
- Silicon Canal : the area along the Digbeth Branch Canal from Aston Science Park, through Millennium Point to Digbeth.
- Silicon Corridor
- Silicon Dock
- Silicon Fen
- Silicon Forest : Silicon Forest consists of various businesses from in and around the Newark and Sherwood area that specialise in technology and innovation.
- Silicon Glen
- Silicon Gorge
- Silicon Mall : the area between Pall Mall and Victoria in London
- Silicon Pier
- Silicon Roundabout: the area around Old Street Roundabout in London
- Silicon Shipyard
- Silicon Spa
- Silicon Walk
Oceania
Australia
- Silicon Mallee
- 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
- Silicon Welly