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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
Patents
The number of utility patents issued to companies or individuals per 1,000 workers.
Why Is This Important? The capacity of firms to develop new products will determine their competitive advantage and ability to pay higher wages. One indicator of the rate of new product innovation is the number of patents issued. As technological innovation has become more important, patents issued in the United States have increased from 58,000 in 1984 to over 159,000 in 1999.
The Rankings: Metropolitan areas with an above-average share of high-tech jobs, where these jobs are in either corporate headquarters or R&D labs, as opposed to production facilities, tend to have the highest numbers of patents. For example, Rochester is home to both Kodak and Xerox, while Austin, San Francisco, Minneapolis, San Diego, and Boston are home to large numbers of high-tech corporate facilities.
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