This is a list of technology centers throughout the world. Governmental planners and business networks like to use the name "silicon" or "valley" to describe their own areas as a result of the success of Silicon Valley in California. Nevertheless, there are a few qualitative differences between these places, and metrics may be applied to measure their dominance.
These metrics include:
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 (or both)
If mainly corporate, how much revenue and profit and which corporates 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.
Silicon Valley - originating in Stanford University (Palo Alto and Menlo Park), and spreading south towards San Jose, California and suburbs. San Francisco and other areas, especially near Berkeley and Oakland, are technically not part of Silicon Valley, nevertheless SF in particular has seen near dominance in particular higher up industries such as web development (2013-2016) and venture capital. Silicon Valley has maintained dominance for decades in core industries such as microprocessor development, and had been the dominant software development center (including web) before it lost that crown to nearby San Francisco. Peculiar to the region is an obvious lack of other industries, as technology has crowded them out.
Silicon Wadi - is 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 (Technology Park, Malha, Har Hotzvim and JVP Media Quarter in Talpiot), and the Startup Village Ecosystem in the Yokneam area.
Shenzhen Hi-Tech Industrial Park - Shenzhen, Guangdong, China Shenzhen municipality and surrounds, including Dongguan's factories had been for a decade the world's dominant peripheral hardware suppliers. More recently Shenzhen has become the dominant place worldwide for hardware startups (excluding microprocessors, chip memory, and pure-play semiconductor foundry).
Suwon, Korea or Samsung Digital City is the dominant place worldwide for chip memory and integrated system on a chip with large components of microchip memory.
Hsinchu Science Park - Hsinchu City and Hsinchu County, Taiwan is the dominant place worldwide for pure-play semiconductor foundry market.
India as a whole is globally dominant in software technology outsourcing, but not in a single technology park or city. Technopark,_Trivandrum is the Asia's largest IT Park situated at Thiruvananthapuram, India.
Thailand as a whole is globally dominant in hard disk manufacturing.
CERN in Geneva, Switzerland is globally dominant in particle physics.
Dulles Technology Corridor is globally dominant in telecom, satellite, and defense industries.
Silicon Alley or NYC is globally dominant in fintech although Shenzhen is also coming up strong in this area.
Tsukuba Science City, Japan has the largest budget of government-sponsored general research and development for any science park zone of its size.
Bolivia
Cochabamba
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, Desire2Learn, and the Canadian head office of Google; home to the Communitech HUB start-up incubator
Vancouver, British Columbia - home to Sony Pictures Imageworks, PMC-Sierra, Telus, Hootsuite, EA Canada, Vision Critical, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates, and Westport Innovations
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 - home to Mitel, DragonWave, Alcatel Lucent, and Halogen Software
Greater Toronto Area - specifically Mississauga and Brampton
Cité Multimédia, Montreal
Montréal Technoparc, Montréal
Guatemala
Guatemala City
Mexico
Guadalajara, Jalisco
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
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 - North Carolina
Route 128 - Massachusetts
Silicon Alley - New York City
Silicon Hills - Austin, Texas and its suburbs
Silicon Forest - Portland, Oregon
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
Algeria
Cyberpark de Sidi Abdellah - Algiers
Cameroon
Silicon Mountain - most innovative startups in Buea
Egypt
Smart Village Egypt - part of Greater Cairo
Ghana
Ghana Cyber City - Slated to become the leading innovation hub of West Afria.
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
South Africa
Silicon Cape, Western Cape
Technopark Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch
Zambia
National Technology Business Centre (NTBC) - Lusaka
Burma
Yadanabon Cyber City
China
Zhongguancun - Haidian District, Beijing
Chengdu Tianfu Software Park - Chengdu, Sichuan
Dalian Hi-Tech Zone & Dalian Software Park - Dalian, Liaoning
Hunnan New Area - Liaoning
Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park - Shanghai
Hong Kong
Cyberport - Hong Kong Island
Hong Kong Science Park - New Territories
India
Technopark, Trivandrum - Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala - Asia's Largest IT Park considering the built up area
Electronics City - Bangalore
International Tech Park, Bangalore
Manyata Embassy Business Park - Bangalore
Tidel Park - Chennai
Gurgaon, Haryana - near Delhi
Noida, Uttar Pradesh - near Delhi
Sricity, Andhra Pradesh - near Tirupati
HITEC City - Hyderabad
IKP-Alexandria Biotech Knowledge Park - Hyderabad
Technocity,_Thiruvananthapuram - Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
InfoPark, Kochi - Kochi
Cyberpark - Kozhikode
The Knowledge Corridor - between Pune and Mumbai
Hinjawadi, Magarpatta - Pune
Iran
Pardis (The Pardis Technology Park), (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 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 Park, Malha, Har Hotzvim and JVP Media Quarter in Talpiot), and the Startup Village Ecosystem in the Yokneam area.
Yehud - Hosts primarily Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Software campus (http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Careers-at-HP/A-tour-at-HP-Software-campus-in-Yehud-Israel/ba-p/184796), but is the home of more IT and High Tech companies such as Ticomsoft, Flame-Ware Solutions, RegiSoft, Fenavic, Bgate, BYON IT Solutions and others.
Yokneam Illit - with over 100 high-tech companies concentrated in a small area that is nicknamed "Startup Village"
Japan
Kansai Science City, on the borders of Kyoto, Osaka and Nara Prefectures
Tsukuba Science City, Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture
Yokosuka Research Park (YRP), Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture
Malaysia
Technology Park Malaysia (TPM), Kuala Lumpur
Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) / 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 (Known as "Silicon Valley of the East")
Penang Science Park, Penang
Penang Cybercity, Penang
MSC Cyberport, Johor
Johor Technology Park, Johor
Nusajaya Tech Park, Johor
UTM-MTDC Technology Centre. Selangor
Kulim Hi-Tech Park (kHTP), Kedah
Pakistan
Arfa Karim Technology Park (former Software Technology Park) - Lahore
IT Media City - Karachi
Philippines
Silicon Gulf - Davao City (The Silicon Valley of the Philippines)
Light Industry and Science Park of the Philippines II, Laguna
Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija
Calamba Premiere International Park
Qatar
Qatar Science & Technology Park, Ar Rayyan
Saudi Arabia
Riyadh Techno Valley, Riyadh
Dhahran Techno-Valley, Dhahran
King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh
Singapore
Singapore Science Park The southwestern corner of Singapore
South Korea
Digital Media City, Seoul
Samsung Town
Teheran Valley, Seoul
Songdo Science Village, Songdo International City, Incheon
Daedeok Science Town, Daejeon
Taiwan
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
Thailand Science Park, north of Bangkok
Software Park Thailand, Bangkok
United Arab Emirates
Dubai Internet City, Dubai
Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai
Dubai Media City, Dubai
Masdar City, Abu Dhabi
Vietnam
Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park, Hanoi
Saigon Hi-Tech Park
Danang Hi-tech Park
Australian Technology Park, Eveleigh, Sydney
Digital Harbour, Docklands, Melbourne
Macquarie Park, Sydney, NSW (including the Research Park - Macquarie University)
Technology Park, Bentley, Western Australia (adjacent to Curtin University of Technology)
Austria
Softwarepark Hagenberg - Hagenberg, Upper Austria
VRVis Research Center - Vienna
Belarus
Belarus High Technologies Park - Minsk
Czech Republic
South Moravian Innovation Centre - Brno
Finland
Otaniemi - near Helsinki
France
Paris-Saclay
GIANT : Grenoble (nanotechnology, particle physics, bioscience and renewable energy)
Metz Science Park : Metz Technopole
Toulouse : Toulouse Sud-Est : Agrobiopole, Labège-Innopole, Aerospace Valley
Valbonne : Sophia Antipolis
Villeneuve-d'Ascq : Technopôle Lille Métropole
Germany
Berlin - known as Silicon Allee, one of Europe's most dynamic technology, IT and startup centers
Dresden (Silicon Saxony)
Kaiserslautern (Silicon Woods)
Karlsruhe
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania - BioCon Valley for its life science and biotechnology clusters
Munich (Isar Valley)
Western Pomerania (IT Lagoon)
WISTA (Science and Technology Park in Berlin-Adlershof)
Hungary
Infopark - Budapest
Ireland
Dublin (known as "Silicon Docks" or "The European Silicon Valley", due to its high number of technological EMEA centres)
Italy
Milan ("FabriQ")
Netherlands
Science Park Amsterdam - Amsterdam
High Tech Campus Eindhoven - Eindhoven
Technopolis Innovation Park Delft - Delft
Utrecht Science Park - Utrecht
Portugal
Taguspark
Instituto Pedro Nunes - Coimbra
Russia
Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk
Skolkovo Innovation Center, Skolkovo, Moscow Oblast
Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
Innopolis, near Kazan'
Romania
Cluj Napoca)
Spain
Andalusia Technology Park - Málaga
Cartuja 93 - Seville
Sweden
Kista - Stockholm
IDEON - Lund, Greater Copenhagen Area
Turkey
ITU Arı Technopolis, (Istanbul)
METU Technopolis - Ankara
United Kingdom
Oxford Science Park - Oxford
Silicon Corridor - M4 corridor, Reading, Berkshire
Silicon Fen - Cambridge
Silicon Glen - in Central Scotland
Silicon Gorge - Bristol
Silicon Roundabout - London
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:
Silicon Cape — Cape Town, South Africa
Silicon Lagoon — Lagos, Nigeria
Silicon Mountain — Buea, Cameroon
Silicon Savannah — Nairobi, Kenya
Silicon Gulf — Davao City, Philippines
Silicon Island — Kyushu, Japan
Silicon Peninsula — Dalian, China
Silicon Valley of China — Zhongguancun, Haidian District, Beijing, People's Republic of China (PRC)
Silicon Valley of India (sometimes referred to as Silicon Plateau) — Bangalore
Silicon Valley of Indonesia — Bandung, Indonesia
Silicon Valley of South Korea — New Songdo City, Incheon
Silicon Valley of Taiwan — Hsinchu, Taiwan
Silicon Valley of Hong Kong — Cyberport and Hong Kong Science Park
Silicon Sentier — Paris, France
BioCon Valley - Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania
CFK Valley – Stade, Lower Saxony
Isar Valley - Munich, Bavaria
Measurement Valley – Göttingen, Lower Saxony
Medical Valley – Erlangen region, Bavaria
Silicon Allee (English: Silicon Avenue) — Berlin (incl. WISTA)
Silicon Saxony — Dresden, Saxony, Elbe river valley around the city
Silicon Woods – Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate
Solar Valley – Thalheim, Saxony-Anhalt
Ireland
Silicon Docks — Dublin, Ireland. Contains the European headquarters of companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, and many others.
Etna Valley – Catania, Italy
Motor Valley – Bologna, Modena, Italy
The Netherlands
Food Valley — The Netherlands
Health Valley — The Netherlands
SiliconFjord - Oslofjord-region
Switzerland
Ticino Valley - Switzerland, technology cluster in the Lugano Area
Russian Silicon Valley:
Skolkovo innovation center
Zelenograd, Moscow
Silicon Sloboda — Moscow, Russia
Silicon Taiga — Akademgorodok, Russia
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
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
Silicon Shipyard — Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, Middlesbrough
Silicon Spa — Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
Silicon Walk — Edinburgh, Scotland
Dubai Silicon Oasis — Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Silicon Wadi — The coastal plain of Israel, stretching from Haifa to Tel Aviv and Rehovot and expanding inland to Jerusalem
Silicon Valley of the North - Ontario Highway 401 between Toronto and Waterloo
Silicon Valley North — Ottawa, Canada, though questionable since the 2009 bankruptcy of Nortel and the 2008 pull-out of Dell's call centre
Silicon Vineyard — Okanagan Valley, Canada
Mexican Silicon Valley/Silicon Valley South — Jalisco, Mexico
Silicon Border — Mexicali, Mexico
Philicon Valley (also known as "Silicon Valley Forge") — Area close to Philadelphia, in the suburbs of Valley Forge and Wayne
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 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, DC
Silicon Hills — Austin, Texas
Silicon Mountain — Front Range Urban Corridor, Colorado (Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins, Colorado Springs)
Silicon Prairie
Dallas-Fort Worth Silicon Prairie — Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Texas
Illinois Silicon Prairie — Chicago and Urbana-Champaign
Midwest Silicon Prairie — Omaha, Des Moines, Kansas City
Wyoming Silicon Prairie, also called the "Silicon Range" — Jackson Hole
Silicon River — Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts
Silicon Sandbar — Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Silicon shire — Eugene, Oregon
Silicon Shore — Santa Barbara, California
Silicon slopes — Utah, concentrated in the Wasatch Front
Silicon Surf — Santa Cruz, California
Silicon Swamp — Gainesville, Florida southwest toward Tampa, headquarters of Grooveshark and many other technology companies.
Silicon Valley — San Jose, California (the original "Silicon" namesake)
Silicon Valley of the Sierras — Nevada County, California
Silicotton Valley — Huntsville, Alabama
Silicon Paradise — Santa Teresa de Cobano, Costa Rica
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
Silicon Welly — Wellington in New Zealand
Brazilian Silicon Valley — Campinas, Brazil
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.
Lima Valley — Lima, Peru
San Pedro Valley - Belo Horizonte, Brazil
