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Article: In search of Scotland's Silicon Glen: marketing creation or the next Silicon valley?
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- April 1, 1994
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If "Scottish Exports" ever appears as a category on the popular game show Jeopardy, kilts, bagpipes, golf, and whiskey would immediately spring to mind. Would be contestants, however, might want to rethink their answers now that the Silicon Glen is producing more than 20 percent of Europe's semiconductors and 10 percent of the world's personal computers.
"Silicon Glen" refers to a high-tech region that is growing along a 70 mile strip of Scottish plain that winds from Ayr in the southwest through Glagow and Edinburgh and up to Dundee in the northeast. As its coal, steel, and shipbuilding sectors dwindled, Scotland began to cultivate its electronics industry, ...