List of technology centers

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.

Contents

1 Americas
2 Africa
3 Asia
4 Australia
5 Europe
6 See also
7 References

Americas

Florianópolis
Campinas, São Paulo, São José dos Campos, São Carlos (The Silicon Valley of Brazil).
Porto Digital - Recife

Markham, Ontario - home to the Canadian head offices of Sony, Avaya, IBM, Motorola, Toshiba, Lucent, Sun Microsystems, Apple, AMEX and ATI, which is now part of AMD
Waterloo, Ontario - home to Research in Motion BlackBerry
Silicon Valley North - the National Capital Region around Ottawa, Ontario
Greater Toronto Area - specifically Mississauga and Brampton
Cité Multimédia, Montreal

Parquesoft - Cali

Las Americas Technology & Research Park Development - Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
Guanajibo Research & Innovation Park - Mayaguez, Puerto Rico

Automation Alley - Metropolitan Detroit (primarily Oakland County, Michigan)
Brainpower Triangle - Cambridge, MA, Somerville, MA
Cummings Research Park - Huntsville, Alabama
Denver Tech Center - Denver, Colorado
Dulles Technology Corridor - Northern Virginia near Washington Dulles Airport
Florida High Tech Corridor - Central Florida
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 Valley - Northern California
Tech Coast - Southern California
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

Africa

Technopole of Algiers - Cyberparc of Sidi Abdellah (under construction)

Smart Village, Cairo

Agadir : Haliopolis
Casablanca : - Casablanca Technopark ,- CasaNearShore
Fes : FèsShore
Oujda : Technopole Ibn khaled
Rabat : Technopolis
Tangier : Tangier Technopole

Technopark Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch

Asia

Chengdu Tianfu Software Park - Chengdu, Sichuan^[1]
Dalian Software Park - Dalian, Liaoning
Jiaxing Software Park - Jiaxing, Zhejiang (referred to as "Zhejiang's Silicon Valley")^[2]
Shenzhen Hi-Tech Industrial Park - Shenzhen, Guangdong
Hunnan New Area - Liaoning
Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park - Shanghai^[3]
Xi'an Software Park - Xi'an, Shaanxi^[4]
Zhongguancun - Northwestern side of Beijing, also called Haidian Science Park

Bangalore (The Silicon Valley of India), ITPB
Tidel Park - Chennai
HITEC City - Hyderabad
Kolkata - West Bengal
The Knowledge Corridor - between Pune and Bombay, Maharashtra,
Pune
Technopark, Trivandrum - Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Gurgaon, Haryana - near Delhi
Noida, Uttar Pradesh - near Delhi
IT Park - Chandigarh

Pardis (The Pardis Technology Park),^[5] (Iran's Silicon Valley)

Tel Aviv/Mediterranean Coastal Region - referred to as Silicon Wadi

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

Multimedia Super Corridor - Kuala Lumpur

Software Technology Park - Lahore^[6]

Silicon Gulf - Davao City (The Silicon Valley of the Philippines)

Singapore Science Park^[7] The southwestern corner of Singapore

Hsinchu Science Park , Hsinchu City & Hsinchu County
Southern Taiwan Science Park, Tainan City & Kaohsiung City^[8]
Nankang Software Park, Taipei City^[9]
Neihu Science Park, Taipei City
Central Taiwan Science Park, Taichung City & Yunlin County^[10]

Ankara Cyberpark - Ankara^[11]
Metu Technopolis - Ankara^[12]

Thailand Science Park, north of Bangkok
Software Park Thailand, Bangkok

Dubai Internet City, Dubai

Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park, Hanoi
Saigon Hi-tech Park, Ho Chi Minh City
Da Nang Hi-tech Park, Da Nang

Australia

Melbourne, (Digital Harbour at Docklands)
Macquarie Park, Sydney, NSW (including the Research Park - Macquarie University)

Western Australia:

Bentley Technology Park, adjacent to Curtin University of Technology

Europe

ViaSphere Technopark - Yerevan

Softwarepark Hagenberg - Hagenberg, Upper Austria

Belarus High Technologies Park - Minsk

Otaniemi - near Helsinki

Agen : Agropole
Aix-en-Provence : Europôle Méditerranée de l'Arbois : technopôle de l'environnement*
Angers : Angers technopôle : Parc scientifique de Belle-Beille et Parc scientifique des Capucins*
Avignon : Agroparc
Archamps : Archamps (technopôle), technopôle euro-suisse
Belfort : Belfort technopôle
Besançon : TEMIS (TEchnopôle MIcrotechnique et Scientifique de Besançon)
Bidart : Technopôle Izarbel
Bordeaux : Bordeaux Technopole : Bordeaux Montesquieu, Bordeaux Unitec, Bordeaux Technowest
Bourg-en-Bresse : Alimentec
Boulogne-sur-Mer : Boulogne Technopole (Filière halieutique)
Brest : Brest-Iroise Technopôle - Institut polaire français - Paul Émile Victor
Castres : Castres-Mazamet Technopole
Cayenne : Guyane Technopole
Cergy : Val d'Oise technopôle
Cherbourg : Technopole Cherbourg Normandie
Clermont-Ferrand : Pascalis ; Biopole Clermont-Limagne/Incubateur Busi : technopôle des sciences du vivant
Compiègne : Compiègne Pôle Technologique
Grenoble : Inovallée (anciennement ZIRST: Zone pour l'Innovation et les Réalisations Scientifiques et Techniques)
Évry : Génopole
Gif-sur-Yvette : Incuballiance
Illkirch-Graffenstaden : technopôle spécialisé dans les biotechnologies et les technologies de l'information
Le Barp : Parc scientifique et technologique Laseris
Le Bourget-du-Lac : Savoie Technolac
Le Mans : Le Mans Technopolis*
Lannion : Anticipa, Technopôle du Tregor
Laval : Laval Mayenne Technopole*
Limoges : Ester Technopole*
Lorient : Lorient technopôle Innovations
Loos : Eurosanté
Lyon-Villeurbanne : La Doua domaine scientifique ; Technopole Lyon métropole innovante

Marseille : Marseille-Provence Technopôle ; Château-Gombert.
Metz : Metz Technopôle*, Technopôle-Grigy
Montpellier : Montpellier Méditerranée Technopole
Mulhouse : Mulhouse Technopôle ; CEEI Alsace
Nancy : Technopôle de Nancy-Brabois
Nantes : Atlanpole*
Nîmes : NRC Technopole (Nîmes Rhône Cévennes Technopôle)
Orléans : Orléans Val de Loire Technopôle
Paris : Agoranov ; Paris Biotech Santé ; Paris Technopole
Pau : Helioparc ; Pau Cité Multimédia
Perpignan : NauteaTechnopole Nautique de Méditerranée
Ploufragan : Zoopole developpement
Poitiers : Technopole du Futuroscope*
Quimper : Technopôle Quimper Cornouaille
Reims : Technopôle Made in Reims
Rennes : Rennes Atalante*
Technopole de la Réunion
Rouen/Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray : Technopôle du Madrillet
Saint-Beauzire : Biopôle Clermont Limagne : technopole des sciences du vivant
Saint-Marcel : Valmaris technopôle
Soissons : Aisne Technopôle
Sophia Antipolis - between Nice and Cannes
Strasbourg : Alsace-Biovalley
Talence : Incubateur Régional d'Aquitaine
Toulon : Toulon Var Technologies
Toulouse : Toulouse Sud-Est : Agrobiopole, Labège-Innopole, Aerospace Valley
Tours : Deux-Lions District
Troyes : Technopole de l'Aube en Champagne
Valbonne : Sophia Antipolis
Vannes : Pays de Vannes technopôle
Villeneuve-d'Ascq : Technopôle Lille Métropole

Chausseestrasse, Berlin, Germany (was called the "Silicon Valley" of Germany in 2000)
Chemnitz, Germany (The Technologie Centrum Chemnitz Germany)
Dresden, Germany (The Silicon Valley of Germany)
Karlsruhe, Germany (TechnologieRegion Karlsruhe)

Dublin, Ireland (The Silicon Valley of Europe, due to its high number of technological EMEA centres)

Taguspark

Zelenograd (The Silicon Valley of Russia)

Parque Científico y Tecnológico de Albacete - Albacete
Parque Científico de Alicante - Alicante
Parc Tecnològic del Vallès - Barcelona
Parc Científic de Barcelona - Barcelona
Parc d'Innovació La Salle - Barcelona
Parque Tecnologíco de Bizkaia - Bilbao
Parque Tecnológico de Burgos - Burgos, León^[13]
Parque Tecnológico de León - León^[14]
Tecnológico de Boecillo - Valladolid
Andalusia Technology Park - Málaga
Aeropolis (Parque Tecnológico Aeroespacial de Andalucía) - Seville
Cartuja 93 - Seville
Parque Científico y Tecnológico de Cantabria - Santander
San Sebastian Technology Park - Saint-Sebastian
Parque Tecnológico de Galicia - San Cibrao das Viñas (province of Ourense
SEPIVA (València Parc Tecnològic) - Valencia
Innova - Valencia
Parque Científico Tecnológico de Gijón - Gijon
Parque Tecnológico de Andalucía - Malaga
Parque Científico-Tecnológico de la Universidad de Alcalá - Madrid
Parque Científico de Madrid - Madrid
Parque Científico de Leganes Tecnológico - Madrid
Parque Balear DE Innovacion Tecnologica (PARCBIT) - Palma de Mallorca
Parque Tecnológico Walqa - Huesca
Parque Científico Tecnológico Aula Dei - Zaragoza

Wireless Valley - Stockholm

ITU Arı Technopolis, (Istanbul) Arı Technopolis

M4 corridor - between London and Reading
Silicon Fen - Cambridge
Silicon Glen - in Central Scotland

See also

References

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