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Experts Say the Region Can Become an Innovation Economy Leader

If you Google “leading urban innovation economies” and then look for Detroit, you have to look down the list before you find it. Places like Silicon Valley, Boston-Cambridge, Austin and Seattle in the United States, and Bangalore and Shanghai overseas, are much more prominent. Richard Florida, founder of Creative Class Group, finds that ironic, considering that, for much of the 20th century, metro Detroit was home to the world’s most technologically advanced manufacturing industries and the world’s