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 The San Jose metropolitan region is known worldwide as a center of innovation. Here, like nowhere else, entrepreneurial people turn new ideas into products, services, and industries.
- The San Jose Area is home to more than 6,300 technology
companies employing more than 300,000 people-- the largest
concentration of technology expertise in the world
- San Jose leads the nation in patents
- One third of all U.S. venture capital is invested in this area--three times the share of the most closest region.
No other region in the world comes close to the San Jose area's exceptional breadth and depth of technology expertise--from semiconductors, computing, and networking, to software, information services, and biomedical. Collaboration among converging fields is creating the next wave of commercial innovation in information, bio-, and nano-technology.
San Jose played an important historic role in Silicon Valley's
rise to prominence, spawning innovations in radio technology,
disk drives, and semiconductors. Today, San Jose is home to
scores of industry leaders, such as Adobe, Cisco, eBay, IBM,
and Xilinx, as well as thousands of start-ups, small, and
emerging companies. An unparalleled infrastructure for
innovation--specialized suppliers, research organizations,
venture capital and professional service firms--ensures fast
time-to-market and an environment for practical creativity
that is unique in the world.
With real estate costs now below 1997 levels, now is the time to stake a claim in the world's leading center of innovation.
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