I am not sure they will be a Silicon Valley Europe anytime soon.
Nice/Sophia-Antipolis and Dublin would be the strongest candidates, though.
Barcelona, Zurich, Stockholm, Munich and London/Redding would also be good candidates.
Red Herring has a special report on the Silicon Valley and how nobody has managed to copy the concept yet.
http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=15345&hed=The+Valley:+from+Afar
While Google R&D Europe is in Zurich, Google Europe HQ is in London and is apparently having some trouble recruiting.
Google struggles to find enough British staff from the Independent finds that while Google may be one of the most desired places to work in the United States, in the UK, Google is struggling to find new engineering talent. The theory as to why Google cannot attract the talent they desire in Britain is because the candidates possibly feel they may have to move to California in the long run of their Google tenure.
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060306-103243
Yahoo Europe HQ was relocated to Ireland last year and they just opened their R&D labs in Barcelona so I think it is quite unlikely that they will relocate again in Zurich.
Does anybody have any pointer on studies related to professional mobility in Europe, compared to the US?
On 3/28/06, Anthony Townsend
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Learned here that Google Europe HQ is here and expanding, and Yahoo is
considered/has decided (unclear) to relocate Europe HQ from Paris
Some local econ dev propaganda below
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Zurich Named Best European IT and Telecom Infrastructure Location at MIPIM
in Cannes
Monday March 27, 1:55 pm ET
ZURICH, Switzerland and CANNES, France, March 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The city of
Zurich and the Greater Zurich Area have been elected winner and runner-up in
a business location competition organized by fDi magazine (foreign direct
investment), a unit of the Financial Times Group. The awards were held
during the world's leading real estate event, MIPIM, in Cannes, France.
The city of Zurich excelled among 89 European business locations and was
named European location with the best IT and telecommunications
infrastructure 2006/7. Crucial factors for the decision of fDi magazine were
the availability and speed of broadband internet connectivity and the
wide-spread use of mobile technology among the population.
Within Switzerland, Zurich had already won the title of "City of the Future"
and surpassed national competitors in 28 categories like business potential,
IT and Telecom infrastructure, human resources, transportation and quality
of life.
fDi magazine also honored the Greater Zurich Area and its location marketing
agency, Greater Zurich Area AG. The fDi jury in Cannes bestowed upon the
business region around Zurich the title of "Region of the Future"
Switzerland and named it runner-up for "Central European Region of the
Future."
"That we proved as attractive for foreign direct investment as many strong
Eastern European contenders makes us especially proud," said Sonja Wollkopf,
Chief Operations Officer of the Greater Zurich Area AG. "It underlines the
competitiveness of the Greater Zurich Area as a business, expansion and
investment location that has attracted companies like Google and Red
Herring."
About the Greater Zurich Area AG
The Greater Zurich Area AG, a nonprofit organization, is the marketing
association for the Greater Zurich Area business region. It recruits
international companies abroad and assists them with setting up companies
and making investments in the Greater Zurich Area. Its sponsor is the
"Stiftung Greater Zurich Area Standortmarketing," a public-private
partnership that was established in November 1998. Since that time, its
membership has grown to include the cantons of Aargau, Glarus, Graubunden,
Schaffhausen, Schwyz, Solothurn and Zurich, the cities of Zurich and
Winterthur, and several Swiss companies. http://www.greaterzuricharea.ch
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Riad Lemhachheche
Mobile Technology Solution Laboratory
Dept of Ind & Mfg Engineering
Oregon State University
Corvallis,OR 97331
USA
http://www.oregonstate.edu/~lemhachr
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