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Methodology
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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
Weighting Methodology
Raw scores were calculated for each metro for each indicator. In the composite analyses, the indicators were weighted so that closely correlated ones wouldn't bias the results.
| Weighting factors for final score: | Weight |
| Knowledge Jobs | |
| Professional, Managerial, and Tech Jobs | 1.0 |
| Workforce Education | 1.0 |
| Total | 2.0 |
| Globalization | |
| Export Focus of Manufacturing | 1.5 |
| Total | 1.5 |
| Dynamism and Competition | |
| Gazelles | 1.0 |
| Job Churning | 1.0 |
| New Publicly Traded Companies | 1.0 |
| Total | 3.0 |
| Digital Transformation | |
| Online population | 1.0 |
| Broadband Telecommunications Capacity | .75 |
| Computer Use in Schools | .50 |
| Commercial Internet Domain Names | 1.0 |
| Internet Backbone | .75 |
| Total | 4.0 |
| Innovation Infrastructure | |
| High-tech Workers | 1.0 |
| Degrees Granted in Science and Engineering | .75 |
| Patents | .75 |
| Academic R&D | .75 |
| Venture Capital | .75 |
| Total | 4.0 |
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