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.

Americas

Bolivia

• Cochabamba

Brazil

• Florianópolis
• Campinas, São Paulo, São José dos Campos, São Carlos (The Silicon Valley of Brazil).
• Porto Digital - Recife
• Tecnopuc - Porto Alegre
• Vale da Eletrônica - Santa Rita do Sapucaí
• CENTEV/UFV - Technological Center for Regional Development of Viçosa - Viçosa, Minas Gerais

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
• Greater Toronto Area - specifically Mississauga and Brampton
• Cité Multimédia, Montreal

Guatemala

• Guatemala City

Mexico

• Guadalajara, Jalisco
• PIIT Monterrey, Nuevo Leon

United States

• Automation Alley - Metropolitan Detroit (primarily Oakland County, Michigan)
• BRDG Research Park - Bio-Research and Development Growth Park - Creve Coeur, Missouri
• CORTEX Innovation Community (Center of Research, Technology & Entrepreneurial Exchange) - St. Louis, Missouri
• 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
• International Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing Research - Orlando, Florida
• Illinois Technology and Research Corridor - DuPage County, Illinois
• Missouri Research Park, affiliated with the University of Missouri System - St. Louis, Missouri
• 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 - San Jose, California and suburbs. San Francisco and other areas sometimes included as well.
• 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

Algeria

• Technopole of Algiers - Cyberparc of Sidi Abdallah (under construction)

Egypt

• Smart Village Egypt - part of Greater Cairo

Kenya

• Konza Technology City - launched in 2013, and set to host business process outsourcing (BPO) ventures, a science park, and other facilities

Mauritius

• Ébène Cyber City

Morocco

• Casablanca : Casablanca Technopark, CasaNearShore

South Africa

• Silicon Cape, Western Cape
• Technopark Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch

Zambia

• National Technology Business Centre (NTBC) - Lusaka

Asia

Burma

• Yadanabon Cyber City

China

• Zhongguancun - Haidian District, Beijing
• Chengdu Tianfu Software Park - Chengdu, Sichuan^[1]
• Dalian Hi-Tech Zone & Dalian Software Park - Dalian, Liaoning
• Shenzhen Hi-Tech Industrial Park - Shenzhen, Guangdong
• Hunnan New Area - Liaoning
• Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park - Shanghai^[2]
• Xi'an Software Park - Xi'an, Shaanxi^[3]

Hong Kong

• Cyberport - Hong Kong Island
• Hong Kong Science Park - New Territories

India

• Electronics City - Bangalore
• International Tech Park, Bangalore
• Manyata Embassy Business Park - Bangalore
• IT Park - Chandigarh
• Tidel Park - Chennai
• Gurgaon, Haryana - near Delhi
• Noida, Uttar Pradesh - near Delhi
• HITEC City - Hyderabad
• IKP-Alexandria Biotech Knowledge Park - Hyderabad
• Technopark, Trivandrum - Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
• InfoPark, Kochi - Kochi
• The Knowledge Corridor - between Pune and Mumbai
• Hinjewadi, Magarpatta - Pune
• P.A.Sekar Scientific Research center - Arakkonam

Iran

• Pardis (The Pardis Technology Park),^[4] (Iran's Silicon Valley)

Israel

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

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

• Multimedia Super Corridor / Cyberjaya - Kuala Lumpur
• MSC Cyberport - Johor

Pakistan

• Arfa Karim Technology Park (former Software Technology Park) - Lahore^[5]
• 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

Singapore

• Singapore Science Park^[6] The southwestern corner of Singapore

South Korea

• Digital Media City, Seoul
• Samsung Town, Seoul
• Teheran Valley, Seoul
• Songdo Science Village, Songdo International City, Incheon
• Daedeok Science Town, Daejeon

Taiwan

• Hsinchu Science Park - Hsinchu City and Hsinchu County
• Central Taiwan Science Park - Changhua County, Nantou County, Taichung City and Yunlin County^[7]
• Southern Taiwan Science Park - Kaohsiung City and Tainan City^[8]
• Nankang Software Park - Taipei City^[9]
• Neihu Science Park - Taipei City

Thailand

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

UAE

• Dubai Internet City, Dubai
• Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai
• Dubai Media City, Dubai

Vietnam

• Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park, Hanoi
• Saigon Hi-Tech Park
• Danang Hi-tech Park

Qatar

• Qatar Science and Technology park, Qatar

Saudi Arabia

• Riyadh Techno Valley, Riyadh
• Dhahran Techno-Valley, Dhahran
• King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh

Australia

• 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)

Europe

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)^[10]
• Inovallée : Meylan
• 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 and the Rhein-Main-Neckar IT cluster (TechnologieRegion Karlsruhe)
• Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania - BioCon Valley for its life science and biotechnology clusters^[11]
• Munich (Isar Valley)
• Western Pomerania (IT Lagoon)
• WISTA (Science and Technology Park in Berlin-Adlershof)

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
• Kennispark Twente - Enschede
• Utrecht Science Park - Utrecht
• Avantis European Science and Business Park - Heerlen
• Leiden Bio Science Park - Leiden
• Zernike Science Park - Groningen

Portugal

• Taguspark
• Instituto Pedro Nunes - Coimbra

Russia

• Skolkovo Innovation Center, Skolkovo, Moscow Oblast
• Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
• High Technology Park 'IT Park', Kazan

Romania

• Cluj Napoca (known as "Romania's technopolis"^[12])

Spain

• Andalusia Technology Park - Málaga
• Aeropolis (Parque Tecnológico Aeroespacial de Andalucía) - Seville
• AZTI-Tecnalia (Parque Tecnológico de Bizkaia) - Derio^[13]
• Cartuja 93 - Seville

Sweden

• Kista - Stockholm

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
• Croydon Tech City - Croydon

See also

• List of research parks
• Research-intensive clusters
• List of places with "Silicon" names

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