Top 10 Up-And-Coming Tech Cities
If you thinking of moving your career and/or business into a new place, check out Forbes’ Top 10 Up-And-Coming Tech Cities list.
Where will the next Silicon Valley spring up? Philip Auerswald, professor of public policy at George Mason University, surveyed regional innovation trends across the U.S. and came up with a list of up-and-coming tech centers.
Auerswald surveyed specific pockets of science–including advanced materials, nano-crystals and quantum dots, polymers and plastics, micro-systems and cell microbiology–that most experts consider today’s most promising frontiers of innovation.
Borrowing a method devised by Anthony Breitzman, a researcher at 1790 Analytics, an intellectual-property valuation firm, Auerswald then looked for important relationships among patents within each general technical area. The most important patents are generally referenced by other inventors in the field when they file for their own patents; lesser patents garner fewer citations. The greater the increase in the number of important patents in a given city, the higher it ranked on Auerswald’s list.
Here is the top ten list of cities. Click on each city to read why they are the up-and-coming tech city.
- Columbus, Ohio.
- Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Palm Beach County, Florida
- Houston, Texas
- Milwaukee-Waukesha, Wisconsin
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Boise City, Idaho
- Iowa City, Iowa
- Lake Charles, Louisiana
- Yuma, Arizona
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