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NED Alumni from North America and other parts of the world gathered in San Jose, CA on Sept 8, 2007 to attend an annual convention celebrating the history and the rich heritage of NEDUET, the oldest inst of higher learning in Pakistan.
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Lots of places want to become the "next Silicon Valley." But that's much easier said than done, according to a new study from the Kauffman Foundation.
The study compares the nation's top 20 large metros in terms of high-tech start-up density in 1990 and 2010. San Jose leads in both periods. And although the order has shifted a bit, every single one of the top 10 metro areas in 2010 was among the top 20 in 1990. ...Only five of the top 20 in 2010 — Portland, Wilmington, Phoenix, Kansas City and New Orleans — weren't among the most tech-dense cities twenty years ago. Even metros that have begun to climb the high tech ranks recently, like Kansas City and Portland, really "owe their emerging entrepreneurial ecosystems to many years of spinoffs and entrepreneurial spawning," the report notes.
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2013/09/long-hist...
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