ABSTRACT
Globally, as measured by Huggins et al. (2004), the regions of the United States combine to make it the competitive knowledge economy of the world. Forty US regions make up the top 50 knowledge economy region-level rankings throughout the world. Among these 50, the only non-US regions, with their global ranking listed here in parentheses, are: Stockholm, Sweden (15); Uusimaa, Finland – i.e. the Helsinki region (19); Ile de France – i.e. the Paris region (34); Tokyo (38) and its neighbor region, Shiga (39), both in Japan; the South East of England, United Kingdom (40); West, Sweden (44); Switzerland (45); London, UK (46) and Eastern, United Kingdom (50) (Huggins et al. 2004: 6). The most competitive regional knowledge economy in the world is San Francisco (1); the Boston region is ranked next (2); followed by the knowledge economy regions of Grand Rapids-Michigan-Holland, Michigan (3); and Seattle, Washington (4). The Detroit-Ann Arbor-Flint, Michigan, region is ranked twelfth.
