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Silicon Valley Rises Again

This eWeek article on the recent boom in Silicon Valley offers some amazing statistics:

• SV is an ethnically very diverse region (second only to Miami in the US)
• ...has one of the most global workforces, with 40 percent born outside of the United States
• 48 percent of the population speak a language other than English at home
• 40 percent of its population has a bachelor's degree (the most highly educated region in the US)
• Over half (55 percent) of its science and engineering talent was born abroad, well over double that of the United States at large (20 percent)

SV ranks the highest in IT employment, but other world cities, such as Singapore, Taiwan, Tokyo and Munich, are quickly catching up. Within the United States, Silicon Valley is nearly neck-and-neck with Austin and Boston in terms of IT employment.

posted by Christof Wittig @ 9:41 AM