It's a desert city with a famously precarious water-source backup plan and a persistent drought problem, but it's also got one of the highest concentrations of science and tech giants all hard at work on solutions.
Although the metropolitan area has the highest concentration of medical science talent in the country, it lags far behind the Boston and San Francisco areas as a center for turning their ideas into products and services.
"Vertex moving out will be a ripple for Cambridge, where there's the world's biggest concentration of life science companies, the universities and where big pharma like Novartis, Sanofi Aventis, Merck and Amgen continue to expand".
ON JULY 12th, the London School of Economics LSEE) will be opening a new £6.5m "research lab", part-funded by the government and the Wellcome Foundation, which claims to bring together "the largest concentration of social sciences and economic expertise outside the US".
RTP is also home to two major US government health and environmental agencies: the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the Environmental Protection Agency EPAA), making the area the largest concentration of environmental sciences research in the world.
A related aspect has to do with the initial concentration of philosophers of science on highly international themes from physics and mathematics, which facilitated communication and dialogue across linguistic and cultural barriers.
Maryland has the highest U.S. concentration of STEM workers (science, technology, engingeering, and mathematics)—4.7% of the population according to a new state-by-state analysis released today by the Commission of Professionals on Science and Technology in Washington, D.C. Mississippi has the lowest, with 1.3%.
Virgil, Homer, Eliot, Dante and Rilke play useful roles in his efforts to understand the life he lived in the concentration camp, as does his deep knowledge of science.
When Jankowski tries to woo high-tech companies to the Texas city, data from Question No. 12 allow him to brag that the metropolitan area has a higher concentration of graduates with degrees in science and engineering than the country as a whole.
In the 1950s, the knee-jerk defensive reaction to the Russians launching of Sputnik paved the way for a greater concentration of American resources to support science education.
