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THE INDICATORS
PART
I: KNOWLEDGE JOBS
Managerial,
Professional, and Technical Jobs
Workforce
Education
PART II: GLOBALIZATION
Export Focus
of Manufacturing
PART III: ECONOMIC
DYNAMISM
"Gazelle"
Jobs
Job Churning
New Publicly
Traded Companies
PART IV: THE DIGITAL
ECONOMY
Online Population
Broadband Telecommunications
Capacity
Computer Use
in Schools
Commercial Internet
Domain Names
Internet
Backbone
PART V: INNOVATION
CAPACITY
High-Tech Jobs
Degrees Granted
in Science and Engineering
Patents
Academic Research
and Development Funding
Venture Capital
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
STRATEGIES
Data Sources
The Metropolitan
Areas and their Major Cities
Weighting Methodology
Endnotes
The Authors
Grand Rapids
| Indicator | Rank | Score |
| Overall Score | 50 | 13.6 |
| Aggregated Knowledge Jobs | 43 | 7.2 |
| Managerial, Professional & Tech Jobs Managers, professionals, and technicians as a share of the total workforce. |
36 | 33% |
| Workforce Education A weighted measure of the educational attainment (advanced degrees, bachelor's degrees, or some college course work) of the workforce. |
48 | 0.45 |
| Aggregated Globalism Scores | 43 | 8.6 |
| Export Focus Of Manufacturing Manufacturing export sales per manufacturing worker. |
43 | $19,000 |
| Aggregated Economic Dynamism Scores | 42 | 8.2 |
| "Gazelle" Jobs Jobs in gazelle companies (companies with annual sales revenue growth 20 percent or more for four straight years) as a share of total employment. |
35 | 8.9% |
| Job Churning A score based on the number of new start-ups and business failures within each metro. |
37 | 9.5 |
| New Publicly Traded Companies The number of companies' initial public stock offerings as a share of gross metropolitan product. |
42 | 0.0 |
| Aggregated Digital Economy Scores | 50 | 5.1 |
| Online Population The percentage of adults with Internet access at work or at home. |
31 | 40.5% |
| Broadband Telecommunications Capacity The number of broadband competitors per zip code area. |
43 | 2.08 |
| Computer Use In Schools The percentage of children using computers in the classroom. |
46 | 58% |
| Commercial Internet Domain Names The number of commercial Internet domain names (".com") per total number of businesses. |
44 | 0.51 |
| Internet Backbone Total capacity of all Internet backbone links to other metropolitan areas as share of employment. |
50 | 0.5 |
| Aggregated Innovation Capacity |
44 | 7.3 |
| High-Tech Jobs Jobs in electronics and high-tech electronics manufacturing, software and computer-related services, telecommunications, data processing and information services, biomedical and electromedical services as a share of total employment. |
48 | 1.9% |
| Degrees Granted In Science and Engineering A weighted measure of the degrees granted in scientific and technical fields as a share of the workforce. |
43 | 9.3 |
| Patents The number of utility patents issued to companies or individuals per 1,000 workers. |
26 | 0.47 |
| Academic R&D A combined measure of industry investment in R&D at academic institutions and total academic R&D. |
47 | 9.5 |
| Venture Capital Venture capital invested as a share of gross metropolitan product. |
8 | 0.49% |
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