As we wrote in our December cover story, Globalizing Knowledge, cities are entering a new era of competition, remaking their identities and rebranding themselves around clusters of innovation.
Last September, a group of senior city leaders, education and industrial experts, and innovators met at Harvard University’s Technology and Entrepreneurship Center in the Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science for the 2015 Summit on Enabling Innovation Economies for the Future.
One of the things that came out of the summit was a model for predicting which U.S. cities were most “future-ready,” based on three primary characteristics:
•The ability to attract people who are engaged in and open to lifelong learning that drives innovation
•Businesses that thrive in collaborative environments
•Infrastructure that provides platforms for people to engage, collaborate, learn, and innovate.
The study is available here. An international index of cities will be released in the near future, its sponsors say.
- San Jose
- San Francisco
- Washington, DC
- Boston
- Austin, Texas
- Raleigh, North Carolina
- Seattle
- Denver
- Portland, Oregon
- Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas
- New York, New York
- Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota
- Houston, Texas
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Charlotte, North Carolina
- San Diego, California
- Chicago
- Louisville, Kentucky
- Salt Lake City, Utah
- Des Moines, Iow
- Los Angeles
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Kansas City, Missouri
- Columbus, Ohio
- Philadelphia