Forbes has analyzed the top 100 metropolitan areas to compose its list of America's Most Innovative Cities.
The list was based on the number of patents and amount of venture capital investment per capita along with the ratios of high-tech, science and "creative" jobs. Silicon Valley topped the list with cites including San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Mountain View and Cupertino that host technology juggernauts.
The number two and three spots may surprise a few. Austin edged out Raleigh for runner up. Austin hosts South by Southwest (SXSW), Dell, Freescale Semiconductor and an IBM research lab.
So the Triangle will have to settle for third which is not bad. Forbes noted the area's mix of academia and industry. The Triangle has its own substantial share of tech companies including Cisco, IBM and Lenovo benefiting from the near by colleges Duke, N.C. State and U.N.C.. The area recently topped Forbes' Most Wired list.
San Francisco was ranked fourth and Seattle settled into fifth.
Matthew Fortner has been at The News & Observer since 2002. He has a passion for gadgets, cutting-edge technology and all things geek.
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No More Growth for North Carolina
Tue, 05/25/2010 - 10:50 — bigsurmacLegend has it that the Little Dutch Boy wished the sea would go away from the other side of the dike he had plugged with his finger.
There should be a legitimate impact fee for new construction in every jurisdiction.
A four-bedroom MacMansion should return at least $10,000, based on 5% of retail sale price distributed to the legal jurisdictions impacted,-- city, county, schools, special districts.
At least Twenty Per Cent of that of the total should be allocated to water resource development for the city or county.
40% for schools -- 20% for roads -- 20% for local government.
As the moonshiners felt about "revenooers" -- "You can't get rid of 'em, you can't stop 'em and it don't help none to wish they'd find a way to make an honest livin', so jes' try to think ahead of 'em"
-- So it is with North Carolina's growth which is coming -- as inevitably as those dang "revenooers."
Get off your behinds and start planning and preparing, as if it were the Preacher comin' for Sunday dinner.
The real trick is gettin' that Preacher to help buy the chicken 'n fixins.
I do wish we would stop placing so well in these surveys,
Tue, 05/25/2010 - 09:48 — PlatowasrightIt just means more people wanting to live here, more congestion, higher taxes. We need a very large impact fee to make these transplants pay for the expenses of them coming here.