How do you define what is and what is not a 'Silicon Valley'? that is, when would you declare such an experiment as a success? It has to be some measure which is not only
scale - for otherwise a small scale (30 start-ups) pilot could never be considered a success.
For example, Route 128 in Boston and RTP both have start-ups and other IT companies yet in a smaller number than SV.
What is it precisely that they are lacking and would have made them 'smaller SVs'? I recall seeing a statistics saying that Israel has the largest number of start-ups per capita in the world. Yet it is far too small to have a 'critical mass' for being able to compete with SV. In that sense, can the Tel-Aviv - Herzelia area be considered as a successful 'small SV'?