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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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Data Sources

Indicator: Managerial, Professional, and Tech Jobs
Sources: Managerial, Professional, and Tech Jobs: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey, 1999. Overall 1998 employment: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), Regional Economic Information System.

Indicator: Workforce Education
Sources: Degrees: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey, 1998. Overall 1998 employment: BEA.

Indicator: Export Focus of Manufacturing
Sources: Manufacturing Exports: International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1998. All figures show sales by exporters of record located in indicated area. (http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/industry/otea/metro)

Indicator: Gazelles
Sources: Gazelle Jobs: David Birch, Anne Haggerty, and William Parsons, Corporate Demographics: Corporate Almanac (Cambridge, Mass.: Cognetics, 1999), p. 59. This indicator shows the number people employed by gazelle firms in 1998 as a share of total establishment employment (an establishment is defined as a place of work, a physical location). Overall 1998 employment: BEA.

Indicator: Job Churning
Sources: Loss rate: David Birch, Anne Haggerty, and William Parsons, Corporate Demographics: Corporate Almanac (Cambridge, Mass.: Cognetics, 1999), p. 40. Gain rate: David Birch, Anne Haggerty, and William Parsons, Corporate Demographics: Entrepreneurial Hot Spots (Cambridge, Mass.: Cognetics, 1999), pp. 24-28.

Indicator: New Publicly Traded Companies
Sources: Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR-ONLINE, 1999 and 2000. Gross metropolitan product: U.S. Metro Economies: The Engines of America's Growth (Lexington, Mass.: Standard & Poor's DRI, 2000).

Indicator: Online Population
Sources: Adult Internet Penetration: Scarborough Research (New York: October 18,1999) (http://www.scarborough.com). Total number of adults: U.S. Census Bureau, County Population Estimates, 1997-1999.

Indicator: Broadband Telecommunications Capacity
Sources: Broadband providers per zip code: Federal Communications Commission, High Speed Service Providers as of 12/31/99 (Washington, D.C.: 2000). (http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Reports/FCC-State_Link/comp.html)

Indicator: Computer Use in Schools
Sources: Children using Internet in the classroom: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey, 1998. Total number of children: U.S. Census Bureau, County Population Estimates, 1997-1999.

Indicator: Commercial Internet Domain Names
Sources: ".coms": Zook, M.A. (2000) "The Web of Production: The Economic Geography of Commercial Internet Content Production in the United States," Environment and Planning A. Vol. 44, No. 10. (http://www.zooknic.com/) 1999 data. Total companies: County Business Patterns, 1997.

Indicator: Internet Backbone
Sources: Bandwidth: Data compiled by Edward J. Malecki, University of Florida, from the Directory of Internet Service Providers, 12th Edition, (Golden, Colo.: 2000). Overall 1998 employment: BEA.

Indicator: High-Tech Jobs
Sources: High-tech employment: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 1997. Overall 1998 employment: BEA.

Indicator: Degrees Granted in Science and Engineering
Sources: Degrees: National Science Foundation, CASPAR Database, 1996. Overall 1998 employment: BEA.

Indicator: Patents
Sources: Patents: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Data are for utility patents, 1998. Overall 1998 employment: BEA.

Indicator: Academic Research and Development
Sources: Academic R&D: National Science Foundation, CASPAR Database, 1997. Overall 1998 employment: BEA.

Indicator: Venture Capital
Sources: Venture capital: Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP, Money Tree Report 1999 (Boston, Mass.: 1999). Gross metropolitan product: U.S. Metro Economies: The Engines of America's Growth (Lexington, Mass.: Standard & Poor's DRI, 2000).

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