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
Silicon Valley: Originating in Stanford University (Palo Alto and Menlo Park), 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 since the 90s and venture capital. Silicon Valley, home to three of the five primary Big Tech companies—Alphabet (Google), Apple, and Meta—has maintained dominance for decades in core industries such as microprocessor development as well as software and apps developmentT. Washington Institute Greater Seattle: one of the largest tech clusters in the world and home to the remaining two of the five primary Big Tech firms: Amazon and Microsoft. Companies such as Boeing, Nintendo, and most other major tech players have at least some economic presence in Greater Seattle. The 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 Cambridge Cluster: The name given to the region around Cambridge, England, which is home to a large cluster of high-tech businesses focusing on software, electronics as ARM and biotechnology, among others AstraZeneca. 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 IT cluster Rhine-Main-Neckar, Germany: Europe's largest software cluster, is globally dominant in business software, IT security research and biopharmaceuticals Shenzhen-Hong Kong Greater Bay Area: Asia's largest technology cluster, is globally dominant in tech manufacturing, consumer software, research, serving global and largest tech consumer market. Home to some of the largest global tech companies, such as Tencent and others Geneva, Switzerland is globally dominant in particle physics at CERN and various frontier scientific & technology research Greater Shanghai, including Hangzhou and others in Yangtze River Delta, is globally dominant technology cluster with companies such as Alibaba, Apple, Amazon and Tesla global manufacturing Dulles Technology Corridor in the Washington, D.C. suburbs of Northern Virginia is globally dominant in telecom, satellite, and defense industries Hsinchu Science Park: Greater 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 Wadi: An area with a high concentration of high-tech industries in the coastal plain in Israel. Eindhoven, The Netherlands is a leading area in technology, stems from Eindhoven University of Technology, ASML and Philips. Toronto and Waterloo Region is a globally prominent technology corridor with companies such as BlackBerry, Desire2Learn and research centers including the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and MaRS Discovery District. Kista, Stockholm: is one of continental Europe's leading hubs for the technology industry; this influential industry is based in Kista, a suburb in northern Stockholm which is Europe's largest Informations and Technology cluster. Stockholm has the second most unicorns per capita in the world, after Silicon Valley; the city also has one of the highest startup rates in Europe.
List Africa
Silicon Mountain: most innovative startups in Buea
Konza Technology City: launched in 2013, and set to host business process outsourcing (BPO) ventures, a science park, and other facilities
Ebene Cyber City
Casablanca: Casablanca Technopark
Lagos: Yabacon Valley
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
National Technology Business Centre (NTBC): Lusaka Eurecat, Baccilon
Middle East
Smart Village Egypt: part of Greater Cairo Maadi Technology Park Silicon Waha Technology Parks
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 a strong high-tech sector. The Silicon Wadi area covers much of the country, although especially high concentrations of hi-tech industry can be found in Tel Aviv and its metropolitan area, known as Gush Dan, including small clusters around the cities of Ra'anana, Petah Tikva, Herzliya, Netanya, the academic city of Rehovot and its neighbor Rishon LeZion. In addition, hi-tech clusters can be found in Haifa and Caesarea. Jerusalem also has significant high-tech establishments (Technology Park, Malha, Har Hotzvim and JVP Media Quarter in Talpiot). Another notable high-tech park is the Startup Village in Yokneam Illit. Yehud hosts Hewlett Packard Enterprise's software campushttp://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Careers-at-HP/A-tour-at-HP-Software-campus-in-Yehud-Israel/ba-p/184796 and other IT and high-tech companies.
Rawabi
Qatar Science & Technology Park, Ar Rayyan
Riyadh Techno Valley, Riyadh Dhahran Techno-Valley, Dhahran King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh
Dubai Internet City, Dubai Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai Dubai Media City, Dubai Masdar City, Abu Dhabi
Americas
Urubó (Santa Cruz de la Sierra)
Florianópolis Campinas, São Paulo, São José dos Campos, São Carlos: The Silicon Valley of Brazil Porto Digital: Recife Porto Alegre TecnoPuc: Porto Alegre BH – São Pedro Valley: Belo Horizonte Parque Tecnológico Aberto de Santa Rita do Sapucaí: Santa Rita do Sapucaí Parque Científico e Tecnológico da UNICAMP: Campinas Feevale Techpark: Porto Alegre ORION Parque Tecnológico: Lages Parque Tecnológico Botucatu: Botucatu Parque Tecnológico UFRJ: Rio de Janeiro Parque Tecnológico da Bahia: Salvador Parque de Desenvolvimento Tecnológico Universidade Federal do Ceará: Fortaleza Sergipe Parque Tecnológico: São Cristóvão Fundação Parque Tecnológico da Paraíba: Campina Grande
Canada's Technology Triangle with Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario: home to BlackBerry (formerly Research in Motion), 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 Silicon Valley North: the National Capital Region around Ottawa, Ontario, Bayview Yards,—home to Mitel, Shopify, DragonWave, Alcatel Lucent, and Halogen Software Markham, Ontario: home to the Canadian head offices of Sony, Avaya, IBM, Motorola, Toshiba, Lucent, Sun Microsystems, American Express and AMD Graphics Product Group Greater Toronto Area: specifically Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Markham Cité Multimédia, Montreal Technoparc Montreal
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
Guatemala City
Guadalajara Mexico City Monterrey Querétaro Tijuana Cancún
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 Greater Seattle Greater Reno, Nevada I-270 Technology Corridor (also known as "DNA Alley"): Area in central Montgomery County, Maryland, in the northern suburbs of Washington, D.C. Illinois Technology and Research Corridor: DuPage County, Illinois New Mexico Technology Corridor: Los Alamos to Las Cruces, centered on Albuquerque metropolitan area 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 Peach: Atlanta 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 Speedway: Indianapolis, Indiana 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, New York Telecom Corridor (an area in the Silicon Prairie): Richardson, suburb of Dallas, Texas Texas Medical Center: Houston, Texas Research Forest: The Woodlands, 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
Jing-Jin-Ji: Beijing-Tianjin-Shijiazhuang Hi-Tech Industrial Belt 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 Wuhan: Donghu New Technology Development Zone Cyberport: Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong Hong Kong Science Park: New Territories, Hong Kong
Chennai: DLF Cyber City, Mahindra World City, Ramanujan IT City, SIPCOT IT Park, TIDEL Park, Olympia Tech Park, One Indiabulls Park, International Tech Park, Information Technology Investment Region, Ambattur Industrial Estate, Guindy Industrial Estate, EMS Corridor, SEZ Corridor, Entertainment Corridor, IT Corridor, Automotive Corridor Bangalore: Electronic City, International Tech Park, Manyata Embassy Business Park, Bagmane Tech Park, Global Village Tech Park Bengaluru: IoT OpenLab Thiruvananthapuram: Technopark, Technocity, Thiruvananthapuram Kochi: Cyber City, InfoPark, SmartCity, Muthoot Technopolis Hyderabad: HITEC City, Genome Valley, Financial District, Gachibowli Pune: Cyber City Hinjawadi, Magarpatta Kolkata: Salt Lake Electronics Complex, ITC Infotech, Candor Tech Space, Bengal Sillicon Valley, Mani Casdona, TCS Sanchayita Tech Park, TCS GItanjali Park, Infosys campus, DLF IT Park 1, DLF IT park 2, Godrej Waterside, Wipro Sez, TCS DElta Park Cognigant IT park, Technopolis Delhi: Delhi IT Park Gurgaon: Cyber City Noida: DLF IT Park Lucknow: IT City