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Thailand
Chiang Mai
Southeast Asia's original digital-nomad capital, Chiang Mai, runs two tracks side by side: the informal, café-and-coworking economy of Nimman, and the formal, university-anchored CMU STeP science park network that feeds startups across Northern Thailand.
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Nimman–Old City Digital Nomad Corridor
The organic heart of Chiang Mai's remote-work economy — a dense strip of coworking spaces, cafés and a long-running events calendar that predates Bali's nomad boom by several years
Nimman Coworking Cluster
Punspace's flagship location, Yellow, Alt_ChiangMai (the city's largest dedicated space at 1,500 sqm) and Hub53 anchor Nimmanhaemin Road's coworking density.
Old City & Nomad Events Cluster
Punspace's original Old City location near Tha Phae Gate anchors a community calendar including the annual Nomad Summit and month-long pop-ups like Cosmo Local CNX.
CMU STeP — Northern Science Park
Chiang Mai University's Science and Technology Park, headquarters of the Northern Science Park network — the formal, academia-led counterpart to Nimman's café-coworking scene.
STeP Innovation & Incubation Campus
Headquarters of the Northern Science Park, networking 13+ universities across Northern Thailand with prototyping labs, commercialisation units and testbeds spanning agri-food tech, health innovation and creative industries.
Suandok Medical Innovation District (SMID)
Led by CMU's Faculty of Medicine, this health-innovation district recently signed an MOU with Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai to develop and deploy medical technologies regionally.
Tech Ecosystems in Thailand
Thailand's tech economy has three distinct centres of gravity: Bangkok, where True Digital Park and a century of banking capital sit five kilometres apart; Chiang Mai, the original Southeast Asian digital-nomad capital, now also home to a university-led science park network; and Phuket, an island economy adding smart-city infrastructure and a fast-growing coworking scene.
