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IT in Bangalore
Bangalore is Asia's Silicon Valley because of its thriving information technology industry. Bangalore is India's fifth - largest and fastest - growing city. Until its high-tech boom began in the late 1980s, it was known as the Garden City, with greenery flourishing in its pleasant, temperate climate. Today with a growing population of young professionals, it has acquired a vibrant, cosmopolitan air
Bangalore is the home of International Standard R&D Centres, Educational Institutes like IIM, IISc & National Law School and Professional Colleges sending out a large pool of human resource which is put to optimum use. There are a number of well equipped Industrial and research centres like Central Power Research Institute, National Aeronautical Laboratory, Indian Institute of Science along with the Industrial centres like Electronic City & International Tech park making Bangalore leader in Information Technology.
The Silicon Valley of India is a nickname of the Indian city of Bangalore. The name signifies Bangalore's status as a hub for information technology (IT) companies in India and is a comparative reference to the original Silicon Valley, based around Santa Clara Valley, California, a major hub for IT companies in the United States. Bangalore, however, is located on a plateau and not in a valley; the use of the term in reference to Bangalore is not truly toponymous. One of earliest mentions of this sobriquet occurred in late 1980s in the Indian Express.[2] The more prevalent application of the nickname Bangalore began in the 1990s[3] based on a concentration of firms specialising in Research and Development (R&D), electronics and software production.
Bangalore is called the 'Silicon Valley of India' due to the large number of information technology companies located there. Many multinational corporations, especially computer hardware and software giants, have operations in Bangalore.
Bangalore's IT industry is divided into two main "clusters"[7] — Electronics City and Whitefield. New clusters in Bellandur and Challaghatta have emerged in the last few years along the Outer and Inner Ring Roads and in C. V. Raman Nagar near Old Madras Road.
Electronics City, located in the southern outskirts of Bangalore, is an industrial park spread over 330 acres (1.3 km²). Electronics City was formed in 1978 [1]. 3M, Hewlett Packard and Siemens are some of Electronic City's clients. Infosys and Wipro, India's second and third largest software companies, are headquartered in Electronics City. The Software Technology Parks of India, Bangalore (STPI) was started at Electronics City in 1991 by the Ministry of Information Technology. STPI Bangalore counts among the premier and oldest Internet Service Providers (ISP) in India. It was the first center to be Internet-enabled in India. Nortel Networks is a prominent client of STPI Bangalore.
In August 2005, the Bangalore Forum for IT (BFIT), which consists of 18 major multinational IT firms including Sun Microsystems, Texas Instruments, Philips, Novell, vMoksha, Synopsis, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola, threatened to boycott the Bangalore IT convention. The proposed boycott was designed to indicate the displeasure of local and international technology companies with the city's lack of progress on the infrastructural front. Increasingly, new IT centers are being built away from this city due to long inner-city commute times, poor infrastructure, high land and labor costs, increasing environmental problems and labor retention issues.
The turn of the millennium witnessed the growth of internet based technologies which resulted in the dotcom boom. Bangalore's IT industry grew during this period with the establishment of local and foreign IT companies. In 2001, BusinessWeek published an article entitled "India's Silicon Valley" which traced the growth of the IT industry in India and particularly in Bangalore. The use of the term "Silicon Valley of India" to refer to Bangalore grew in local media and as time progressed, in international media too. An article entitled "Is the Next Silicon Valley Taking Root in Bangalore?" appeared in the New York Times in 2006[4] Indeed, some articles in the western media wondered if the original Silicon Valley would one day be functionally replaced by Bangalore[5]
Shashi Tharoor, has suggested that in place of the cliché of Silicon Valley of India, Silicon Plateau of India would be appropriate. [6]
IT in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley firms have developed and commercialized some of the most important electronics and biomedical technologies in the second half of the twentieth century. In so doing, they transformed a predominantly agricultural region on the southern part of the San Francisco Peninsula into a major high technology complex at the center of the information and biotechnology revolutions. In 2000, high tech firms in Silicon Valley employed more than half a million engineers, scientists, managers, and operators in industries ranging from electronic components to computers. This contrasts sharply with the Valley's humble beginnings in the 1930s, when radio firms on the San Francisco Peninsula employed a few hundred engineers and workers and operated in the shadow of large East Coast firms such as RCA, General Electric, and Westinghouse. The rise of Silicon Valley from the 1930s to the 1990s was a complex and contingent process. It was shaped by successive waves of innovation and entrepreneurship, the emergence of new forms of financing such as venture capital, and the evolving military and commercial demand for electronic and biomedical products.
The first planar integrated circuit, 1960. Designed and built by Lionel Kattner and Isy Haas under the direction of Jay Last at Fairchild Semiconductor.Photo: Courtesy of Lionel Kattner
Growth of Tubes and Semiconductors
Conclusion from Indian side of view
One can create Silicon Valley here, and it may take a long time, and may be, it will take a different shape and form and may not necessarily follow Paul Graham’s Silicon Valley. For anything to happen, someone has to start and persevere. If some of us succeed, and in turn spawn many such companies here in Bangalore, then another Paul Graham will write an article 20 years from now as to why Bangalore cannot be recreated anywhere else.
Bangalore is Asia's Silicon Valley because of its thriving information technology industry. Bangalore is India's fifth - largest and fastest - growing city. Until its high-tech boom began in the late 1980s, it was known as the Garden City, with greenery flourishing in its pleasant, temperate climate. Today with a growing population of young professionals, it has acquired a vibrant, cosmopolitan air
Bangalore is the home of International Standard R&D Centres, Educational Institutes like IIM, IISc & National Law School and Professional Colleges sending out a large pool of human resource which is put to optimum use. There are a number of well equipped Industrial and research centres like Central Power Research Institute, National Aeronautical Laboratory, Indian Institute of Science along with the Industrial centres like Electronic City & International Tech park making Bangalore leader in Information Technology.
The Silicon Valley of India is a nickname of the Indian city of Bangalore. The name signifies Bangalore's status as a hub for information technology (IT) companies in India and is a comparative reference to the original Silicon Valley, based around Santa Clara Valley, California, a major hub for IT companies in the United States. Bangalore, however, is located on a plateau and not in a valley; the use of the term in reference to Bangalore is not truly toponymous. One of earliest mentions of this sobriquet occurred in late 1980s in the Indian Express.[2] The more prevalent application of the nickname Bangalore began in the 1990s[3] based on a concentration of firms specialising in Research and Development (R&D), electronics and software production.
Bangalore is called the 'Silicon Valley of India' due to the large number of information technology companies located there. Many multinational corporations, especially computer hardware and software giants, have operations in Bangalore.
Bangalore's IT industry is divided into two main "clusters"[7] — Electronics City and Whitefield. New clusters in Bellandur and Challaghatta have emerged in the last few years along the Outer and Inner Ring Roads and in C. V. Raman Nagar near Old Madras Road.
Electronics City, located in the southern outskirts of Bangalore, is an industrial park spread over 330 acres (1.3 km²). Electronics City was formed in 1978 [1]. 3M, Hewlett Packard and Siemens are some of Electronic City's clients. Infosys and Wipro, India's second and third largest software companies, are headquartered in Electronics City. The Software Technology Parks of India, Bangalore (STPI) was started at Electronics City in 1991 by the Ministry of Information Technology. STPI Bangalore counts among the premier and oldest Internet Service Providers (ISP) in India. It was the first center to be Internet-enabled in India. Nortel Networks is a prominent client of STPI Bangalore.
In August 2005, the Bangalore Forum for IT (BFIT), which consists of 18 major multinational IT firms including Sun Microsystems, Texas Instruments, Philips, Novell, vMoksha, Synopsis, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola, threatened to boycott the Bangalore IT convention. The proposed boycott was designed to indicate the displeasure of local and international technology companies with the city's lack of progress on the infrastructural front. Increasingly, new IT centers are being built away from this city due to long inner-city commute times, poor infrastructure, high land and labor costs, increasing environmental problems and labor retention issues.
The turn of the millennium witnessed the growth of internet based technologies which resulted in the dotcom boom. Bangalore's IT industry grew during this period with the establishment of local and foreign IT companies. In 2001, BusinessWeek published an article entitled "India's Silicon Valley" which traced the growth of the IT industry in India and particularly in Bangalore. The use of the term "Silicon Valley of India" to refer to Bangalore grew in local media and as time progressed, in international media too. An article entitled "Is the Next Silicon Valley Taking Root in Bangalore?" appeared in the New York Times in 2006[4] Indeed, some articles in the western media wondered if the original Silicon Valley would one day be functionally replaced by Bangalore[5]
Shashi Tharoor, has suggested that in place of the cliché of Silicon Valley of India, Silicon Plateau of India would be appropriate. [6]
IT in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley firms have developed and commercialized some of the most important electronics and biomedical technologies in the second half of the twentieth century. In so doing, they transformed a predominantly agricultural region on the southern part of the San Francisco Peninsula into a major high technology complex at the center of the information and biotechnology revolutions. In 2000, high tech firms in Silicon Valley employed more than half a million engineers, scientists, managers, and operators in industries ranging from electronic components to computers. This contrasts sharply with the Valley's humble beginnings in the 1930s, when radio firms on the San Francisco Peninsula employed a few hundred engineers and workers and operated in the shadow of large East Coast firms such as RCA, General Electric, and Westinghouse. The rise of Silicon Valley from the 1930s to the 1990s was a complex and contingent process. It was shaped by successive waves of innovation and entrepreneurship, the emergence of new forms of financing such as venture capital, and the evolving military and commercial demand for electronic and biomedical products.
The first planar integrated circuit, 1960. Designed and built by Lionel Kattner and Isy Haas under the direction of Jay Last at Fairchild Semiconductor.Photo: Courtesy of Lionel Kattner
Growth of Tubes and Semiconductors
Conclusion from Indian side of view
One can create Silicon Valley here, and it may take a long time, and may be, it will take a different shape and form and may not necessarily follow Paul Graham’s Silicon Valley. For anything to happen, someone has to start and persevere. If some of us succeed, and in turn spawn many such companies here in Bangalore, then another Paul Graham will write an article 20 years from now as to why Bangalore cannot be recreated anywhere else.
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