And, in February, Medvedev, in typically top-down Russian governmental fashion, announced plans to build a high-tech zone inspired by Silicon Valley.
That its growth took place so quickly, and during a recession, is remarkable enough: the high-tech zone in Cambridge has taken decades to evolve.
Last month in Singapore, the North Koreans – elite or not – visited incubators in a high-tech zone called Fusionopolis and went to networking mixers where people discussed things that were entirely alien to them – like Instagram and YouTube.
Sichuan's fragmented transportation system prevents Chengdu from rivaling the eastern powerhouses as a manufacturing center, but the city is promoting the advantage of its plentiful, relatively low-cost brain pool with its new research corridor, the West High-Tech Zone.
In the city's high-tech zone, cleared as a site for hoped-for semiconductor factories and pharmaceutical plants, cows graze amid empty buildings.Yet keenly as Shantou is feeling the region's pain, it is still China.
The survey scope included two major automobile manufacturing clusters in xi 'an, the high-tech zone and the Economic and Technology Development Zone.
Its first joint venture partner, Censoft Corp. Ltd., recently completed a building in a high-tech zone in northwestern Beijing that looks like any airy Silicon Valley office.
Last year, NPU received an empty plot of land within a designated high-tech zone, prompting the university to expand R&DIS into a full-fledged research and development center.
He talks about building subway cars, though 3-D printers and artisanal design products are probably more like it, and even the hottest start-ups in high-tech zones are adding only a few dozen jobs at a time.
