Progress is often made at the margins and in small ways. Today’s “Pittsburgh Business Times” reports
that a New Jersey company, Ness Technologies, is opening a development center
in Southpointe, Washington County. I
believe the key phrase in their announcement is the following:
”In a news release, Ness said it was drawn to the Pittsburgh region by its
proximity to the region's colleges and associated talent pool.”
This is what we want to hear: a talent pool associated with local
universities. It’s the phrase you read
over and over in places like Denver, Boston, Seattle and Austin. Those of us working in high tech know
that the San Francisco Bay Area has an overabundance of both talent and higher
educational institutions pumping out that talent; that’s uncontested.
But the wagon Pittsburgh should hitch to is the one where operations from
higher cost locales look to lower cost areas where the quality of life and the
brainpower provides a natural place to co-locate and grow. Obviously I believe Pittsburgh has offered
that for a long time. There’s always
need for more efforts to get the word out because there are unlimited
opportunities to tap into that need.
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