Anchors
Here is a cursory view of Silicon Valley clusters and their respective anchors circa end of 2010. This follows Prof. Tony E. Smith of the University of Philadelphia's research in identifying that 1/4 mile and 40 miles having specific impact on technology clusters.
Roughly, it goes from hardware in San Jose to social media applications in San Francisco.
The format goes by City: Company name (industry/technology)
North Bay
- San Francisco: Zynga (Social media/gaming, software)
- South San Francisco: Genentech/Roche (Biotech/pharmaceutical)
- Redwood City: Oracle (enterprise software)
- Menlo Park: San Hill Road (VC)
- Pal Alto: Stanford University (R&D)
- Mountain View: Google (Software/search)
South Bay
- Cupertino: Apple (Consumer hardware/software)
- San Jose: Intel/Cisco (Consumer/enterprise hardware)
East Bay
- Fremont: Tesla (Auto/Cleantech)
- Berkeley: University of California Berkeley (R&D)
Disclaimer
The list above is meant to be an illustration of clusters. There are many exceptions with the most glaring one being that Facebook is located in Palo Alto.
The germane point, nonetheless, is that if you want to start up a solar panel company which utilizes semiconductor manufacturing technologies, the natural location is to be near South Bay near where the semiconductor cluster is.
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