| Silicon Valley has added more
than 200,000 jobs since 1992, .... It leads the nation in exports and accounts for 40
percent of California's export trade. Across the world, techno-wannabe regions try to
mimic the valley's success, right down to their names: Silicon Hills in Austin, Silicon Dominion in Virginia, Silicon Plateau in
Bangalore, Silicon Island in Taiwan, Silicon Wadi in Israel. |
| Source: By Jim
Bettinger, MSNBC , October
24, 1998 |
|
The
regional "Clones" of Silicon Valley's
basic concept |
| Boston. Mass |
the area along Road 128 - "East
Silicon Valley" - biggest recipient of venture-capital behind SF Bay Area |
| Austin.
Texas |
Dell
Comp. and about 2,000 other high-tech companies |
| New York, NY |
Silicon
Alley, a three-mile strip extending from the borough's trendy Chelsea district to its
southern tip. |
| Salt Lake
City. Utah |
one
neighborhood has more hight-tech companies than fast-food restaurants |
| Seatle. Wash |
Microsoft,
Amazon.com, ... |
| Washington.
DC |
Virginia
suburbs have IT-based employment comparable to San Jose |
| Bangalore.
India |
a
hotbed of programmers |
| Tel Aviv. Israel |
... world best known
telecommunication -, data processing - and hundreeds of other high-tech
companies are based here |
| Cambridge. England |
Cambridge University's
centric tech park |
Hsinchu Science-Based
Industrial Park. Taiwan |
Umax Data Systems, Acer
and the world's largest semiconductor foundry are based here |
|
|
Palo
Alto 
