In this Apollo 8 view, Earth fills the same proportion of the image (~1%) as there are Southern Tier High School graduates (4) in the Astronaut corps (300).
From 2005 - 2009, the Greater Binghamton area produced more than twice the patents of an average US city.
6.7 patents per 10,000 employees - US average
vs
15.7 patents per 10,000 employees - Binghamton
Michael Porter - Economic Clusters
Study - Harvard Business School
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Six of the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies on Fast Company magazine’s 2009 list have string roots to upstate NY - Cisco Systems, GE, HP, Intel - including two companies that started in the same building in Downtown Binghamton - IBM and L-3
WHY HERE?
Photo courtesy of NASA image archives
