Milken Institute: New Report on North America’s High-Tech Centers
Silicon Valley Continues to Lead All Other Metropolitan Regions
Posted by: Robert W. Price
Silicon Valley, the largest and most influential high-tech center in the world, continues to lead all other metropolitan regions in North America in the breadth and scope of economic activity it creates through technological innovation. But many other metros have built strong and diverse industries that should allow them to prosper when the global economy recovery.
The report is an update to the Institute’s 1999 publication, America’s High-Tech Economy: Growth, Development and Risks for Metropolitan Areas, a groundbreaking study that was one of the first to show the importance of high-tech industry to regional economic growth.
The new study has been expanded to include Canada and Mexico, highlighting the integration that has occurred in this industry in the last decade.
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The report was sponsored, in part, by Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada.
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