- CONNECT-track is CONNECT’s insight into the overall growth of innovation within San Diego on a per quarter basis. By tracking the number of start-ups in several key verticals and comparing them to past records, CONNECT can gain and share an understanding of the rate and change of start-up creation, as well as regional distribution of industry clusters. CONNECT-track is CONNECT’s first endeavor into tracking and publishing economic indicators however look for CONNECT to continue to search for the best ways to conceptualize and track San Diego’s economic health.
CONNECT-track is the first comprehensive look at one of the most important measures of economic strength in the San Diego technology-based innovation sector: new business creation. San Diego’s economy has become increasingly more dependent on the high-value, high-wage jobs created by technology and life science firms, which allow the region to compete in the global economy. This unique index provides the key measurement of the vitality of future economic output in terms of high-wage jobs and overall economic growth, and should help the community gain a better appreciation of the impact of its emerging businesses. The index also provides quantitative validation nationally that San Diego is one of the leading tech centers in the country.
* CONNECT collaborates with scientists, engineers, innovators and the venture capital community, to commercialize technology and build successful companies. Twenty years ago the University of California at San Diego, local San Diego businesses, and the city government created CONNECT to transform San Diego based institutional research into a center for technological innovation commercialization. Today, CONNECT is the globally recognized public benefits organization fostering entrepreneurship in the San Diego region by catalyzing, accelerating, and supporting the growth of the most promising technology and life sciences businesses.
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