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We all know how Boston, the SF bay area, etc became tech centers by leveraging first rate (and other) universities in the post WW2 era.
Which cities have done the most to leap ahead using one or more universities and the spinoff industries from those universities to drive their economies in more recent years?
I am thinking Pittsburgh (mainly CMU) and Austin (UT) are the clearest recent cases.
We all know how Boston, the SF bay area, etc became tech centers by leveraging first rate (and other) universities in the post WW2 era.
Which cities have done the most to leap ahead using one or more universities and the spinoff industries from those universities to drive their economies in more recent years?
I am thinking Pittsburgh (mainly CMU) and Austin (UT) are the clearest recent cases.
NC Research Triangle (Duke/UNC/WF/NC State)
Denver Boulder
UIUC
GT
UW
basically just look at the schools with the top engineering and CS programs, coupled with access or control over national laboratories, there is your answer.
prime examples are UCB and Stanford, both next to SV Market, plus you have Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence berkeley
look at UC and UIUC, not quite the tech market, but large Chicago employment market + Argonne and Fermi
Princeton/Rutgers .. NYC market, + Brookhaven and the Princeton Plasma Physics.
CMU could be much stronger in a better market, hence why they have a satellite campus in Bay Area. They were one of the first programs to guarantee tech jobs to its graduates.
I wonder if this is what happened with Los Angeles in the 80's-90's when it became an aerospace and defense hub. The L.A. area has a lot of excellent engineering schools (specifically aerospace, aeronautical, and mechanical) like Cal Tech, USC, UCLA, UCI, and perhaps Harvey Mudd. I wonder if the area schools' strength in engineering helped fuel the Aerospace industry during that time?
Anyways, the best contemporary example I can think of is the Boston area with its tech schools. Universities like Harvard and MIT help support Boston's tech industry and keep it cutting edge.
to clarify I meant places where A. The university(ies) has been particulary influential in growing/reviving the metro area in the last TEN years - IE not places where the tech corridor/center developed way back in the 1940s and 50s, even if growth there has continued recently. So not Silicon Valley or Rte 128, but their more contemporary equivalents. B. NOT places where the MAIN economic drivers are something else. UC certainly helps Chicago, but AFAICT its mainly lost in the wash of everything else going on - ditto Princeton in NJ, Columbia in NY, etc.
I wonder if this is what happened with Los Angeles in the 80's-90's when it became an aerospace and defense hub. The L.A. area has a lot of excellent engineering schools (specifically aerospace, aeronautical, and mechanical) like Cal Tech, USC, UCLA, UCI, and perhaps Harvey Mudd. I wonder if the area schools' strength in engineering helped fuel the Aerospace industry during that time?
Anyways, the best contemporary example I can think of is the Boston area with its tech schools. Universities like Harvard and MIT help support Boston's tech industry and keep it cutting edge.
Most definitely, especially the case when it comes to the modern internet and computer industry. Part of the reason universities get ranked so high is because they get projects with major companies, vice versa, as well as the ability to place them within those companies.
NC Research Triangle (Duke/UNC/WF/NC State)
Denver Boulder
UIUC
GT
UW.
Research triangle is perhaps the best known instance after SV and 128, and is at least later than they are, but still, wasnt RT pretty well established by the 1980s?
UIUC - Chicago has so much going on economically, I dont see that as a key driver of its economy, though I could be wrong. You arent referring to something going on champagne urbana, are you?
UW = U washingon, or wisconsin?
GT = Georgia Tech. Is that really a key driver for Atlanta? I honestly don't know.
Research triangle is perhaps the best known instance after SV and 128, and is at least later than they are, but still, wasnt RT pretty well established by the 1980s?
UIUC - Chicago has so much going on economically, I dont see that as a key driver of its economy, though I could be wrong. You arent referring to something going on champagne urbana, are you?
UW = U washingon, or wisconsin?
GT = Georgia Tech. Is that really a key driver for Atlanta? I honestly don't know.
Not sure what else if not those, you are getting down to a more micro economic level than I am familiar with. Now that you say it on UW, both.
UIUC is UrbCh, not Chicago.
UIUC has NCSA and invented the first web browser, Mosaic > Netscape > Modern day Mozilla Firefox, as well as telnet/httpd/etc.
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