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Some stand-out observations in the global top 100:
*Nashville soaring up 38 spots from last year, to #84
The business boom continues in this hot spot city for investment.
*Santa Ana/Anaheim, CA up 37 places to #67
*Memphis soaring up 29 places to hit the top 100 @ #97.
I'm sure Nashville's hot buzz and investment interest has rubbed off on Memphis.
*Tampa flying up 28 spots to #71
*Pittsburgh continuing its hot streak, up 25 to #75th
On the downside, some drops--
*Raleigh-Durham drops a big 19 spots, down to #77th
*Phoenix plummets 18 places to #81
*Atlanta drops 2 spots to #20 (surprisingly)
Last edited by jjbradleynyc; 12-06-2018 at 09:52 AM..
North America's Most Innovative Cities, 2018
01. San Francisco Bay Area
02. New York
03. Los Angeles
04. Boston
05. Toronto
06. Chicago
07. Dallas/Fort Worth
08. Seattle
09. Houston
10. Atlanta
11. Montreal
12. San Diego
13. Washington D.C.
14. Vancouver
15. Miami
16. Austin
17. Denver
18. Philadelphia
19. Portland
20. Oakland
The method used here measures 162 "indicators". Some make sense, most seem neutral or unrelated to innovation, some are bizarre such as "# of sports stadiums" and "sports fanaticism". All are measured quantitatively and thus biased to large cities. Hence, Tokyo is top in the world, NYC in the US. Would be interesting to see on a per capita basis but likely too difficult with so many indicators.
Here's a measure of innovation in terms of # of patents per capita. No surprise that the SF Bay Area is dominant.
The method used here measures 162 "indicators". Some make sense, most seem neutral or unrelated to innovation, some are bizarre such as "# of sports stadiums" and "sports fanaticism". All are measured quantitatively and thus biased to large cities. Hence, Tokyo is top in the world, NYC in the US. Would be interesting to see on a per capita basis but likely too difficult with so many indicators.
Here's a measure of innovation in terms of # of patents per capita. No surprise that the SF Bay Area is dominant.
i guess social networks. facebock, twister, instajam, goggle, yootoob, ...
i feel like humans think only of pda/cellular tele-fones, internet as innovation and not genetics engineering, hospitals, healthcare, medical equipmen, advancement in pharmaceuticals... as innovations.
Last edited by stanley-88888888; 12-06-2018 at 02:39 PM..
So, basically the largest cities in North America. Shocker...
Actually that would be NY - LA - Mexico City. Or if it's just Northern America, NY-LA-Chicago. San Francisco is actually relatively small, but punches far above its weight in many categories. It's like the Singapore of NA metropolitan areas.
The rest? Dallas, Houston, Atlanta? They are all red state cities strangled by far right/Republican governments with poor mass transit, endless sprawl, poor education systems and systemic racism.
Just because the states are that way doesn't mean that the cities and their people are.
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