Friday, 3 May 2013

14.Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina

14 Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina

#14 Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Patents per million residents: 1,120
Average patents per year: 552
Top industry: Biotechnology 
This area of North Carolina, with Raleigh, is part of a huge concentration of education institutions (the University of North Carolina, Duke, and North Carolina State,) pharmaceutical companies including GlaxoSmithKline, Biogen, and Merck, and tech companies like IBM and the headquarters of Red Hat (headquartered in Raleigh). The area's known as the "Research Triangle."

Source: Brookings

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