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West Michigan Growth Statistics

February 10, 2005

My dad forwarded an interesting report to me today. It’s called “West Michigan Growth Statistics,” and was prepared by The Right Place, Inc., an economic development group. It’s an amazing report about how competitive West Michigan really is. Click HERE to get the pdf (it’s on my U of M webspace b/c I couldn’t find it on their website).

A few highlights from the report that I’m quite happy with, even amazed by:

“We’re No. 2 in giving! Residents in the Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland area are the second most generous in the nation, according to a new study by the Chronicle of Philanthropy ranking charitable giving in major metropolitan areas. West Michigan residents gave nearly 10 percent of household income to religious and nonprofit causes.

“Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland MSA ranks No. 3 in the World Knowledge Competitiveness Index. Published by Robert Huggins Associates, the 2004 Index of 129 world regions is a benchmark of the knowledge capacity, capability, and sustainability of a region.”

As a part of that specific report, here are a few more categories of interest:

”# 3 World Knowledge Competitive Index
# 3 Regional Ratio of Knowledge Intensity
# 1 Research and Development Expenditure by Business Per Capita
# 1 Private Equity Investment Per Capita”

Interesting, eh?

Posted by paul at February 10, 2005 09:18 PM

Comments

Brandon said on February 25, 2005 01:09 AM

That giving thing is funny, as I know metro Detroit is #1. Yes! Michigan.

Lots of these rankings are kinda silly, of course.

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