Today’s Pick: Tech Tourism

Posted by Helen @ MaRS, November 30th, 2009

Tags:
The CERN dome, Switzerland

The CERN dome, Switzerland

Planning a vacation this winter?  Why not consider a visit to one of the 12 “Tech Meccas” listed in an August 2009 InfoWorld article.

Included on the list of “holy grail” sites is the shed where Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard developed their first product, the Model 200A audio oscillator, in 1938 and the Stanford dorm room which houses Google’s first server farm. The list is very US-centric, making one wonder – are there any “tech meccas” in Canada that belong on a list like this?

To see the list, read: “Tech meccas: The 12 holy sites of IT”



Discussion

blog comments powered by Disqus

Popular Tags

Author: Helen Kula

Helen Kula sources and delivers market data and intelligence to entrepreneurs, high-growth companies and MaRS staff and advisors. She is an active member of Toronto’s information professional and librarian communities.

Read Up

Professors without patents: The unexpected entrepreneurs? (4)
  • keridamen: The chart actually divides up the 1714 businesses that were started by discipline. So there may be roughly...
  • keridamen: The chart actually divides up the 1714 businesses that were started by discipline. So there may be roughly...
  • Tim Tang: And to cover those who have succeeded without patents…it's because the free market determine...
  • J Nicholas Gross: I don't read the chart anything like you do.From this graph it appears that of roughly 650...
New distribution channels for the new economy (2)
  • Katherine Roos: Great article. Community commerce is driving the entrepreneurial boom in Toronto!