Seattle named one of top 10 U.S. cities for innovation
Innovation Leader, a magazine and website focused on innovation in large companies, today released its 2017 list of the top North American cities for corporate innovation and R&D activity, with Seattle appearing at No. 5.
Topping the list is San Francisco/San Jose, Calif., with Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle rounding out the top five. The list also includes Toronto, Detroit, and Minneapolis, cities that don’t always get the same recognition for being innovation hotbeds as other cities on the list.
“Our list focuses on something different than startups, entrepreneurship, or venture capital,” said Scott Kirsner, editor and co-founder of Innovation Leader, in an announcement. “We’re looking at the amount of research-and-development and innovation activity that big companies do in each city — whether that’s Disney and other studios developing the future of entertainment in L.A., or Ford, Uber, and Toyota working on self-driving cars in Detroit.”
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