Silicon Valley is "organizing to turn the region into a nanotechnology powerhouse."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/05/08/MN286866.DTL

"Silicon Valley is fertile ground for the marriage of information technology and biotechnology."
http://www.siliconvalleyonline.org/nano-biotech.html
Silicon Valley is "the home to more public bioscience companies than any other region in the United States."