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Article: SELECT COMPANY; In a study released today, the Twin Cities metro area ranks 10th nationwide as a center of the data-driven New Economy. That's good - but not good enough, say business and technology groups.(BUSINESS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- April 19, 2001
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In the data-hungry, hard-drive, dot-com New Economy where everything is a number, the Twin Cities metro area ranks 10th in the nation, according to a study being released today.
The ranking comes from the Progressive Policy Institute, a political think tank based in Washington, D.C., and runs smack into a years-long debate among Twin Cities technology experts about whether the region has lost its competitive edge.
The study seems to put the Twin Cities in the second tier of metropolitan areas, just edging into the top 10 - still high, but not high enough to gloat.
Hence a typical reaction among denizens of the local high-tech world, which, at ...