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Introduction
Overview &
Methodology
The Rankings
Summary of Results
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
Commercial Internet Domain Names
The number of commercial Internet domain names (".com") per total number of businesses.
Why Is This Important? The New Economy is not just about the Internet firms in Silicon Valley. It is also about all of the ways companies everywhere are putting computers and information technology to work. One way to quantify that is to look at the number of companies that have created a presence for themselves on the World Wide Web. Probably the most effective measure is the number of ".com" domain names registered in each metropolitan area.19 An Internet domain is an organization's unique name combined with a "top level" domain designation such as ".com," ".org," or ".edu," denoting commercial sites, nonprofit organizations, and education or research organizations, respectively. And in spite of the purported slowdown in the Internet economy, over 4.3 million domain names were added worldwide between October 2000 and February 2001.20
The Rankings: The number of ".com" domains registered as share of total businesses varies significantly from metro to metro. The highest-ranking metro, San Francisco, has almost five times as many as the lowest-ranking metro, Louisville. San Francisco, as well as the other four leaders, are among the most high-tech metros by almost any measure.
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