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Which cities will out-perform economically & socially based on change trends?
These are the #Innovation75 - the 2thinknow NEXUS & HUB Innovation Cities for 2009 - key city destinations for economic & social out-performance globally emerging from recession, ranked based on 2thinknow’s leading innovation analysis.
1. Boston
2. Vienna
3. Amsterdam
4. Paris
5. San Francisco
6. London
7. Hamburg
8. New York
9.Tokyo
10.Lyon
11. Stuttgart
12. Berlin
13. Barcelona
14. Frankfurt
15. Washington DC
16. Geneva
17. Copenhagen
18. Strasbourg
19. Toronto
20. Melbourne
21. Milan
22. Sydney
23. Rome
24. Brussels
25. Zurich
32. Philly
33. Minneapolis-St. Paul
53. Dallas
54. Seattle
60. Los Angeles
61. Chicago
62. Pittsburgh
64. Austin
69. Houston
75. Detroit
I would actually love to live in any of the Top 10 cities...except for maybe Tokyo.
Edit: Make that any of the Top 25 cities with the exception of Tokyo. The only reason I don't think I could live in Japan would be to the extreme cultural differences...though I do like Asian women
Where are world's most valuable (and innovative) tech cos. (w/centimillionaire/billionaire founders and "employees") HQ'd? Not in any city but rather in suburban sprawl called "Silicon Valley"
Where are world's most innovative financial shops (w/centimillionaire/billionaire founders and "employees") based? In MidtownManhattan or suburban Greenwich or suburban Silicon Valley
Bos is a quite mockable little town with its lack of valuable tech cos. or leading hedge funds despite presence of Harv/MIT....top grads of both schools have been fleeing for decades to NYC or Silicon Valley to pursue their careers...sort of like how Phila's Wharton undergrad has trained many of NYC/SV's top financiers but ~0% choose to stay in Phila
Where are world's most innovative financial shops (w/centimillionaire/billionaire founders and "employees") based? In MidtownManhattan or suburban Greenwich or suburban Silicon Valley
Bos is a quite mockable little town with its lack of valuable tech cos. or leading hedge funds despite presence of Harv/MIT....top grads of both schools have been fleeing for decades to NYC or Silicon Valley to pursue their careers...sort of like how Phila's Wharton undergrad has trained many of NYC/SV's top financiers but ~0% choose to stay in Phila
Well the "quite mockable little town" of Boston was named the #9 Global Financial Center (http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/8D37DAE2-5937-4FC5-A004-C2FC4BED7742/0/BC_RS_GFCI5.pdf - broken link) by another stupid list. Be sure not to pay any attention to that. It also is home to 5 of the top 50 private equity firms in the world. (includes Providence, RI since it's in the CSA) It's nowhere near NYC or London in that respect--14 for New York area (includes Greenwich), 11 for London--but it's third in the world for private equity according to that list. Fidelity Investments, State Street Bank, Putnam Investments, Liberty Mutual, the Boston Consulting Group (called one of the two most prestigious management consulting firms in the world), and John Hancock (though now it's a subsidiary of Manulife) are all HQ'd in the city.
Lack of valuable tech companies? Is EMC Corp not valuable? Last time I checked a Mkt Cap > $30B was valuable. I suppose Analog Devices is only $8B though, so you've got us there. What about Boston Scientific, Teradyne, 3Com, Carl Zeiss AG (N.American HQ) or Akamai Technologies? If talking about Biotechnology, there's Genzyme, Biogen Idec, Millenium Pharmaceuticals, and the World Reseach Headquarters of Novartis AG (also doubles as the North American HQ).
Yes, we've got the #1 University on the planet and the #1 tech school on the planet. I fail to see where we're a "mockable little town".
Where are world's most valuable (and innovative) tech cos. (w/centimillionaire/billionaire founders and "employees") HQ'd? Not in any city but rather in suburban sprawl called "Silicon Valley"
Where are world's most innovative financial shops (w/centimillionaire/billionaire founders and "employees") based? In MidtownManhattan or suburban Greenwich or suburban Silicon Valley
Bos is a quite mockable little town with its lack of valuable tech cos. or leading hedge funds despite presence of Harv/MIT....top grads of both schools have been fleeing for decades to NYC or Silicon Valley to pursue their careers...sort of like how Phila's Wharton undergrad has trained many of NYC/SV's top financiers but ~0% choose to stay in Phila
...another meaningless rant from you..
Not everyone pursues careers in finance; I could not possibly care less about hedge funds, but you babble , ad nauseum, about them.You should be thankful that many people pursue careers in education, science , engineering and medicine, and make real contributions to the world, in stark contrast to the financial "paper pushers" of the world...
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And yet.....
