Austin is No. 5 on a list of “America’s most future-ready cities” and is is well-known for music and high tech but its ranking was driven by forecasts for its continued economic growth. In fact its gross metro product outranked San Jose Washington and San Francisco.
Those were the findings from the Dell Future Ready Economies Model based on insights and criteria developed at the 2015 Strategic Innovation Summit: Enabling Economies for the Future hosted by Harvard University and sponsored by Dell.
The summit identified three primary characteristics of Future Ready Economies: the ability to attract people who are engaged in and open to lifelong learning that drives innovation; businesses that thrive in collaborative environments; and infrastructure that provides platforms for people to engage collaborate learn and innovate
Top 25 Future Ready Economies:
- San Jose CA
- San Francisco CA
- Washington DC
- Boston MA
- Austin TX
- Raleigh NC
- Seattle WA
- Denver CO
- Portland OR
- Dallas-Fort Worth TX
- New York NY
- Minneapolis-St. Paul MN
- Houston TX
- Atlanta GA
- Charlotte NC
- San Diego CA
- Chicago IL
- Louisville KY
- Salt Lake City UT
- Des Moines IA
- Los Angeles CA
- Pittsburgh PA
- Kansas City MO
- Columbus OH
- Philadelphia PA
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