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	siliconfen.com
		Silicon Fen was not planned but the Cambridge area is now subject to serious planning by organisations such as The Cambridge Network and The Greater Cambridge Partnership.
		'Fen' in the term 'Silicon Fen' is derived from the large area of boggy fen to the north of Cambridge.
		Critical to the success of Silicon Fen companies is the financing, Britain's economic changes over the last 20 years (tax cuts, moving away from a welfare state to more entrepreneurial, free market economy) has attracted foreign banks and international investors to the city of London.
	www.siliconfen.com /sfstory.php (641 words)

	BBC - Norfolk Culture -
		Silicon Fen is a three-year programme of digital art works exploring themes of landscape and technological innovation in relation to the history and geography of the East Anglian Fenland.
		Silicon Fen explores how this area of East Anglia is now being bisected by an information infrastructure of high-speed networks and broadband links that rivals that earlier system of canals and ditches for ambition, scope and intricacy.
		Silicon Fen is launched on Thursday 27 May 2004, at the Norwich School of Art and Design.
	www.bbc.co.uk /norfolk/culture/silicon_fen.shtml (488 words)

	Silicon Fen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Silicon Fen (sometimes the Cambridge Cluster) is the name given to the region around Cambridge, England, which is home to a large cluster of high-tech businesses, especially those related to software, electronics, and biotechnology.
		It is claimed that Silicon Fen is the second largest venture capital market in the world, after Silicon Valley.
		In 2004, 24 % of venture investment in the UK and 9% in Europe was received by Silicon Fen companies, according to the Cambridge Cluster Report 2004 produced by Library House and Grant Thornton.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silicon_fen (588 words)

	Silicon Fen
		Silicon Fen is the name given to the region around Cambridge, England, which is home to a large number of high-technology businesses.
		It is called "Silicon Fen" by analogy with Silicon Valley in California, and because of the large area of drained fenland to the north of Cambridge.
		The so-called Cambridge phenomenon giving rise to start-up companies, in a town previously only having a little light industry in the electrical sector, is usually dated to the founding of the Cambridge Science Park in 1970.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/s/si/silicon_fen.html (401 words)

	Fen Technology Ltd - Location (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Silicon Fen is the area within a radius of about 20 miles (30 km) of Cambridge, England.
		In Silicon Fen there are approximately 1000 high tech companies, generating £2 billion annually in revenue.
		Fen Technology is located in the village of Wilburton, which is in "Silicon Fen", 10 miles (15 kilometres) to the north of Cambridge.
	fentechnology.co.uk /location.php?PHPSESSID=7df71a4692b334ecab428e98... (153 words)

	Term Paper Sample: Silicon City
		Silicon Valley has been the shining light of the Internet revolution of the 1990’s with its tens of billions of dollars in venture capital awarded each year, soaring home prices, and young millionaires.
		Silicon Valley, which is highly touted for its open labor market and networks of contacts that help further innovation in a complex business environment (Saxenian 2-13), might be expected to benefit greatly from agglomeration.
		Thus, while Silicon Valley is the unquestioned leader of all high-tech agglomerations with its growth rate of 4000 companies / year and its absolute dominance in venture capital funding, the question remains of whether or not it will remain so.
	daresler.com /term-papers/paper11.shtml (3835 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		Tales of the original Silicon Valley in San Francisco have been filtering across the Atlantic for the past 10 years: tales of entrepreneurs in heavy metal T-shirts with the arms cut out, setting up billion dollar companies from their parents' garages.
		If the culture of Silicon Fen is to replicate that of the Valley, then these recruits - the largest contingent from France - will come to Cambridge hoping for a great deal more than their £35,000 starting salary.
		Silicon Valley in California is the company town for a network of hi-tech, international corporations and hundreds of internet start-up companies.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,3936054,00.html (1965 words)

	SILICON FEN Articles Silicon Fen (sometimes the Cambridg
		Silicon Fen (sometimes the Cambridge Cluster) is the name given to the region around Cambridge, England, which is home to a large cluster of high-tech businesses, especially those related to software, electronics, and biotechnology.
		It is claimed that Silicon Fen is the second largest venture capital market in the world, after Silicon Valley.
		It is called "Silicon Fen" by analogy with Silicon Valley in California, and because of the large area of drained fenland to the north of Cambridge.
	www.amazines.com /Silicon_Fen_related.html (481 words)

	Silicon Valley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Silicon Valley encompasses the northern part of Santa Clara Valley and adjacent communities in the southern parts of the San Francisco Peninsula and East Bay.
		Silicon refers to the high concentration of semiconductor and computer-related industries in the area; Valley refers to the Santa Clara Valley, located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay.
		Unfamiliar with silicon, writers assumed that it was a misspelling of silicone, a material used in caulking, breast implants, and other products that had recently been introduced to the public.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silicon_Valley (2280 words)

	Silicon Regions - www.advancingwomen.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Now, the Silicon Fen business community is watching closely to see whether the latest generation of high-tech companies and the arrival of a research facility from Microsoft can produce the levels of investment being reaped by companies in the area's namesake", reports CMP's Techwire.
		"Silicon Fen initially built its reputation in the 1960s and 1970s around Cambridge's world-famous university and the work of its researchers and several companies associated with the university.
		But while Silicon Fen companies had a reputation for their technical capabilities, in comparison with Silicon Valley companies, they were small and underfinanced.
	www.advancingwomen.com /silicon_fen.html (281 words)

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		Silicon Valley has been the shining light of the Internet revolution of the 1990’s with its tens of billions of dollars in venture capital awarded each year, soaring home prices, and young millionaires.
		Silicon Valley, which is highly touted for its open labor market and networks of contacts that help further innovation in a complex business environment (Saxenian 2-13), might be expected to benefit greatly from agglomeration.
		Thus, while Silicon Valley is the unquestioned leader of all high-tech agglomerations with its growth rate of 4000 companies / year and its absolute dominance in venture capital funding, the question remains of whether or not it will remain so.
	www.writinglabedge.com /contentpartners/paper11.html (3729 words)

	It's a wired, wired world: 2/28/99
		Silicon Valley: The phrase conjures a pop-culture wonderland of microchips and moxie.
		Israel's "Silicon Wadi" is coming on strong as a cyber-superpower, and Ireland, with its "Silicon Bog," is the world's second largest software exporter.
		The silicon economy in the Irish Republic contributes $9 billion to the total Irish economy of $63 billion.
	www.s-t.com /daily/02-99/02-28-99/b01bu888.htm (3948 words)

	Siliconia -- Part 1
		According to one of many pages devoted to this cyber district, Silicon Alley is "loosely defined as the area from 28th Street to Spring Street along Broadway, and three blocks East and West of Broadway along that stretch." Other sources claim all of Manhattan for the district, even all of New York State, and beyond.
		Silicon Valley no longer is unique and no longer is able to monopolize the development of new technology.
		Silicon Freeway was already obsolete a month after the LA Times piece ran (1998-01-06), with the grand launch of the Digital Coast moniker.
	tbtf.com /siliconia1.html (3886 words)

	FT.com / Home UK / UK - The fertile soil of Silicon Fen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Nearly a year after its market debut, Cambridge Silicon Radio, Cambridge's latest star technology company, is still shining brightly, with exponential growth figures and a market capitalisation of £456m - 50 per cent higher than on float.
		The rise of Silicon Fen really began in the 1960s, when a series of consultancies sprang up outside the university with a view to "putting the brains of Cambridge University at the disposal of the problems of British industry".
		Out of Cambridge Consultants, for example, came Cambridge Silicon Radio and Alphamosaic, the semiconductor company that was sold to Broadcom of the US for $123m (£66m) last year.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/bad088f6-7a40-11d9-9b93-00000e2511c8.html (1569 words)

	Silicon Valley Bancshares News
		Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal - 8:44 AM PDT Wednesday SVB Silicon Valley Bank said Wednesday it will expand its presence in Colorado, opening a Central Division headquarters near Denver.
		Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal - 2:25 PM PDT Thursday Silicon Hive NV said Thursday it opened a U.S. headquarters in Silicon Valley.
		Silicon Hive announced today that the company has opened an office in Milpitas California.
	www.topix.net /com/sivb (698 words)

	Larta
		First there was Silicon Alley, a play on the geography of New York, a tribute to the edginess of the down market district that was about to become home to a tribe of digerati.
		The first lesson that this sharing of practice (and the desire to apply broad prescriptions to places as far removed as Scotland and New Zealand) teaches is that by its very nature innovation is a dynamic and sometimes frustratingly unpredictable set of constructs along a long and winding road.
		Silicon Valley was, and is, a highly movable feast, a phenomenon that was caused by the incidental and accidental rubbing of shoulders of early entrepreneurs, who made fateful decisions to stay in the then-pastoral setting of the Valley instead of moving east.
	www.larta.org /lavox/ArticleLinks/2007/012007_Whatsinaplace.asp (1833 words)

	Cambridge: The UK's answer to Silicon Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Silicon Fen is where the leaders of England's cyber economy hang out.
		It's perfectly possible to spend years in the town and not have a clue that this is the home of Britain's home grown high-technology industry.
		Hauser is now the town's leading booster, effectively the inventor of Silicon Fen.
	www.computing.co.uk /articles/print/2129639 (1243 words)

	Silicon Fen Business Report
		Today, we launch the Silicon Fen Top 20 Share Price Index to serve as a gauge of the collective performance of Cambridge's world-renowned cluster of high-tech companies.
		Because the companies have headquarters are in Silicon Fen, the index is an approximation of the collective shape of the Cambridge Cluster's profitability and performance - its bottom line - as a company's share price usually reflects its performance and potential.
		These branches are critical to the overall health of the region's economy but we could not convince ourselves that their share price was routinely impacted by what they were doing in Cambridge, no matter how innovative.
	www.siliconfenbusiness.com /index.php?articleid=16 (754 words)

	fenlandia
		Two webcams were installed in Silicon Fen, one rural and one in a hi-tech business park.
		The work explores the relationship between landscape, time and technological innovation in East Anglia’s ‘Silicon Fen’, where technology is literally embedded in the flat horizons of a reclaimed landscape of canals, sluices, dykes and ditches.
		The technological location for Silicon Fen was Cambourne Business Park, Cambridgeshire who kindly agreed to lend their existing web surveillance camera for this project.The camera was active intermittently from January 2005 until January 2006.
	www.ucl.ac.uk /slade/sac/fenlandia/siliconfen.html (311 words)

	In Old England a Silicon Fen: Cambridge as a High-Tech Outpost
		Welcome to the Silicon Fen, as insiders call the vast flat and marshy lands in and around Cambridge.
		The financial roots of the Silicon Fen are in Britain's economic changes during the 18 years of Conservative Party rule, largely under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
		Besides the ties that the Fen is forging with Britain's leading universities, its most important relationships are with Britain's growing pool of venture capitalists and the city's financiers.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/cyber/week/010498cambridge.html (2386 words)

	Silicon Fen Innovations that Will Soon be in a Shop Near You (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		These are a few of the latest technologies under development in the Cambridge Cluster of high-tech companies, according to an article in Silicon Fen Business Report at www.siliconfenbusiness.com.
		So much of the ground-breaking design and innovation in the region known as Silicon Fen is not visible to people as they go about their business each day.
		Silicon Fen has long been known for its advances in ink jet printing technology and Xaar remains at the forefront of new applications, delving into new areas that include CD printing and ID cards.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2006/3/prweb354094.htm (1081 words)

	Intute Search/Browse Results
		The two possible types of silicon detectors, single and double sided detectors designs are explained, as well as the effect that the radiation received during an experiment will have on the detector.
		The properties of the element silicon are given, including: chemical data, thermal properties, ionisation energy and abundance, minerals and uses, and reduction potentials.
		Silicon, Circuits and the Digital Revolution is a course in electrical and electronic engineering intended for students without a specific scientific background.
	www.intute.ac.uk /cgi-bin/search.pl?term1=silicon&subject=All&limit=0 (2423 words)

	Magplane
		Silicon Fen, by contrast, focuses on patentable inventions.
		Silicon Fen also differs from Silicon Valley in the way its companies are formed.
		Silicon Fen lacks the volume of Silicon Valley VCs who, for all their faults, bring more than money to the companies they invest in.
	www.magplane.com /html/apr23.htm (1161 words)

	uk2
		Although Silicon Fen is now getting a lot of press, it was started in the early 1970’s out of a similar incentive from the British government.
		Many companies in Silicon Fen have to be as big as or hope to be as Sun or Intel.
		I basically live on planes, and we’ve got offices in Silicon Valley in Los Gatos, Seoul, Tokyo, development in Austin [Texas] and sales and Marketing in the Thames Valley.” [10] So unlike the start of Silicon Valley many of these companies are branching out of Silicon Fen and are looking for foreign investment.
	www.american.edu /carmel/dh2982a/uk10.html (1595 words)

	Siliconia - List of Places with Silicon Names and other Technocluster Monickers
		Larry Slonaker cites Silicon Island in his SJ Mercury News article as referring to the town of Alameda (which is an island in San Francisco Bay).
		"The Silicon Mesa News -- appears to be the first (and to date, only) issue of an e-zine dedicated to reporting the cultural and environmental effects of the development of a high-tech area in the high desert region.
		Beauchamp : "The Silicon Orchard Technology Association is a coalition of individuals, businesses, schools, universities, governments and other area organizations dedicated to building a foundation for growing software companies and technologies in the Silicon Orchard." SOTA's top page notes the importance of apple growing to the region.
	www.silicongulf.net /silicon2.html (8808 words)

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