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1. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA .996
2. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA .983
3. San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA .976
4. Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, OR .956
5. Austin-Round Rock, TX .955
6. Raleigh-Cary, NC .952
7. San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos .945
8. Durham, NC .940
9. Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH .933
10. Boulder, CO .920
11. Burlington-South Burlington, VT .918
12. Tucson, AZ .912
13. Provo-Orem, UT .909
14. Corvallis, OR .898
15. Huntsville, AL .894
16. Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY .893
17. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI .891
17. Madison, WI .891
19. Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA .886
20. Manchester-Nashua, NH .885
Seattle takes first place, besting Silicon Valley, which ranked on top on the original 2002 version of the index. This is not as surprising as it might seem. Seattle is, after all, home to Microsoft, Amazon, and many other high-tech powerhouses.
Silicon Valley (that is the San Jose metro) takes second, followed by the greater San Francisco metro, which has gained ground as large numbers of key high-tech talent and firms have come to prefer more urban locations, such as Twitter, Zynga and Salesforce.com.
Portland, Oregon, is fourth and Austin (with its large tech cluster) is fifth, followed by Raleigh, San Diego, and then Durham. Greater Boston (home to MIT and Harvard as well as the famed Route 128 high-tech cluster) and Boulder, Colorado (which Business Week dubbed the nation’s best place for startups round out the top 10.
Rounding out the top 20 are Burlington, Vermont (home to the University of Vermont); Tucson, Arizona (University of Arizona); Provo, Utah (Brigham Young University); Corvallis, Oregon (home to Oregon State University, a major Hewlett Packard printer prototyping facility and numerous bio tech companies); Huntsville, Alabama (NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the United States Army Aviation and Missile Command as well as numerous high-tech electronics companies); Poughkeepsie, New York (home to IBM); Minneapolis–St. Paul (University of Minnesota); Madison, Wisconsin (with a budding tech hub around the University of Wisconsin); Oxnard–Thousand Oaks, California; and Manchester, New Hampshire (near Boston’s Route 128).
There are some conspicuous absences from the list. Despite the great success of New York City -- in particular lower Manhattan -- in generating high-tech firms and attracting high-tech companies, the New York metro does not make the list. Nor does Washington, D.C. despite its concentration of high-tech districts in Northern Virginia and federal research facilities in Montgomery County, Maryland and Northern Virginia.
While technology is an important driver of economic growth and development, it needs to be part of a broader social and cultural ecosystem before it can generate real prosperity. There is considerable overlap between the Technology Index and the Creative Class, which makes up more than 35 percent of the workforce in 14 of the top 20 Technology Index metros, and exceeds 40 percent in six of them.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
1. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA .996
2. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA .983
3. San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA .976
4. Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, OR .956
5. Austin-Round Rock, TX .955
6. Raleigh-Cary, NC .952
7. San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos .945
8. Durham, NC .940
9. Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH .933
10. Boulder, CO .920
11. Burlington-South Burlington, VT .918
12. Tucson, AZ .912
13. Provo-Orem, UT .909
14. Corvallis, OR .898
15. Huntsville, AL .894
16. Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY .893
17. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI .891
17. Madison, WI .891
19. Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA .886
20. Manchester-Nashua, NH .885
Seattle takes first place, besting Silicon Valley, which ranked on top on the original 2002 version of the index. This is not as surprising as it might seem. Seattle is, after all, home to Microsoft, Amazon, and many other high-tech powerhouses.
Silicon Valley (that is the San Jose metro) takes second, followed by the greater San Francisco metro, which has gained ground as large numbers of key high-tech talent and firms have come to prefer more urban locations, such as Twitter, Zynga and Salesforce.com.
Portland, Oregon, is fourth and Austin (with its large tech cluster) is fifth, followed by Raleigh, San Diego, and then Durham. Greater Boston (home to MIT and Harvard as well as the famed Route 128 high-tech cluster) and Boulder, Colorado (which Business Week dubbed the nation’s best place for startups round out the top 10.
Rounding out the top 20 are Burlington, Vermont (home to the University of Vermont); Tucson, Arizona (University of Arizona); Provo, Utah (Brigham Young University); Corvallis, Oregon (home to Oregon State University, a major Hewlett Packard printer prototyping facility and numerous bio tech companies); Huntsville, Alabama (NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the United States Army Aviation and Missile Command as well as numerous high-tech electronics companies); Poughkeepsie, New York (home to IBM); Minneapolis–St. Paul (University of Minnesota); Madison, Wisconsin (with a budding tech hub around the University of Wisconsin); Oxnard–Thousand Oaks, California; and Manchester, New Hampshire (near Boston’s Route 128).
There are some conspicuous absences from the list. Despite the great success of New York City -- in particular lower Manhattan -- in generating high-tech firms and attracting high-tech companies, the New York metro does not make the list. Nor does Washington, D.C. despite its concentration of high-tech districts in Northern Virginia and federal research facilities in Montgomery County, Maryland and Northern Virginia.
While technology is an important driver of economic growth and development, it needs to be part of a broader social and cultural ecosystem before it can generate real prosperity. There is considerable overlap between the Technology Index and the Creative Class, which makes up more than 35 percent of the workforce in 14 of the top 20 Technology Index metros, and exceeds 40 percent in six of them.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net