Spartan Posted December 8, 2012 Report Posted December 8, 2012 It’s widely believed in policy circles that technology creates jobs around the U.S., especially outside the startup-happy zone of Silicon Valley. But, searching for statistical nuggets in a needlestack of words is daunting–and a little boring. So, technology lobby, Engine Advocacy, and the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, are here to inform and dazzle you with multi-colored graphs (plus some egregious copy and pasting on our part. [b]1. Concentrated tech centers are scattered[/b] all around the U.S., but (not surprisingly) on the coasts. [img]http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/us-tech-map.jpg?w=640&h=369[/img] [b]2. There are a lot of surprising tech zones[/b], such as Wichita Kansas and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Cities with the percentage share of tech jobs range from 28.8 in San Jose to Santa Ana-Irvine area, in Orange County (8.2). [img]http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/top-25-cities.jpg?w=640&h=317[/img] [b]3. Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) job opportunities have continued to expand[/b] up to 10% growth since 2000, while total occupations have hovered around 0%. Life Sciences is king of growth at 42.1%, with Computer and Math Sciences at around 20% and “Engineering and Related” slightly negative. [img]http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/jobs-stem-growth.jpg?w=640&h=277[/img] [img]http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/stem-changes-by-field.jpg?w=640&h=277[/img] 4. Probably the most interesting finding is that [b]one tech job supposedly creates, on average, 4.3 jobs[/b] in the surrounding area in other fields. The so-called “local multiplier” is measured by the change in employment in a randomly selected non-tech field at two points and weighted by the national change in overall growth in that particular sector (geeks can read the technical paper [url="http://emlab.berkeley.edu/%7Emoretti/multipliers.pdf"]here[/url]). Berkeley Economist, Enrico Moretti, [url="http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2012/06/06/the-multiplier-effect-of-innovation-jobs/"]outlines[/url] the effect in more detail, in his new book [i]The New Geography of Jobs[/i]. [img]http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/jobs-multiplier-tech.jpg?w=640&h=342[/img]
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