![]() ![]() When people see that they’re immediately transformed.” “Manufacturing is still very important, and crucial to our economy, but when you visit it’s a beautiful, green, charming place. “People still have the image of the steel mills and the smoke-filled air,” says Mark Anthony Thomas, president of the Pittsburgh Regional Alliance, a non-profit economic development group. “Pittsburgh is the city that built America,” said US energy secretary Jennifer Granholm, adding that it exemplifies “how a legacy energy and industrial-dependent economy can be transformed into a technology and innovation powerhouse”. Last month, Pittsburgh hosted the first Global Clean Energy Action forum, convening global leaders to discuss the green energy transition, a significant source of foreign direct investment into the US. In August, Wolf announced a tax cut for businesses in the state, where corporate income taxes are the second-highest in the country. ![]() “Pennsylvania’s rich history of innovation is one of the best things about the commonwealth, and our world-class research institutions and universities are some of its greatest assets,” Tom Wolf, governor of Pennsylvania, said earlier this year. Google, Facebook, Amazon and other big tech companies have set up shop to tap the associated human capital, Mawhinney says. Thanks to CMU, it went on to have the materials needed for the digital revolution: commercial computers, robotics institutes, artificial intelligence labs. Western Pennsylvania both extracted and produced the materials that powered that revolution: coal, oil, glass, Carnegie steel. ![]() “We were the Silicon Valley of the Industrial Revolution,” says Dave Mawhinney, executive director of CMU’s Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship. Indeed, much of Pittsburgh’s renaissance is built on the foundation of its industrial-age prowess. ![]()
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