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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

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BROWSE BY METRO AREA:
The Metropolitan New Economy Index
METRO AREAS

Hartford

Indicator Rank Score
Overall Score 22 35.6
Aggregated Knowledge Jobs 9 11.5
Managerial, Professional & Tech Jobs
Managers, professionals, and technicians as a share of the total workforce.
2 46%
Workforce Education
A weighted measure of the educational attainment (advanced degrees, bachelor's degrees, or some college course work) of the workforce.
28 0.58
Aggregated Globalism Scores 17 9.8
Export Focus Of Manufacturing
Manufacturing export sales per manufacturing worker.
17 $39,000
Aggregated Economic Dynamism Scores 31 9.1
"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.
11 10.6%
Job Churning
A score based on the number of new start-ups and business failures within each metro.
47 9.1
New Publicly Traded Companies
The number of companies' initial public stock offerings as a share of gross metropolitan product.
30 1.7
Aggregated Digital Economy Scores 36 6.7
Online Population
The percentage of adults with Internet access at work or at home.
28 40.9%
Broadband Telecommunications Capacity
The number of broadband competitors per zip code area.
42 2.11
Computer Use In Schools
The percentage of children using computers in the classroom.
32 65%
Commercial Internet Domain Names
The number of commercial Internet domain names (".com") per total number of businesses.
35 0.56
Internet Backbone
Total capacity of all Internet backbone links to other metropolitan areas as share of employment.
27 25
Aggregated Innovation Capacity
15 9.7
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.
24 3.1%
Degrees Granted In Science and Engineering
A weighted measure of the degrees granted in scientific and technical fields as a share of the workforce.
9 10.6
Patents
The number of utility patents issued to companies or individuals per 1,000 workers.
12 0.57
Academic R&D
A combined measure of industry investment in R&D at academic institutions and total academic R&D.
23 9.9
Venture Capital
Venture capital invested as a share of gross metropolitan product.
28 0.16%

 


 
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