Annual reports are common. Companies, nonprofits and trade groups publish them. For years, we at Technical.ly published annual print magazines tied to big event series we produced, including Philly Tech Week and Baltimore Innovation Week. In these, we blended local tech industry news with startup community goings-on and our own organizational updates.
The mix felt important, reflecting that tech is not just an industry anymore but a community. Ecosystem building has sustained as a metaphor for a reason. After a pandemic of change, we’re back with something new.
Today Technical.ly is releasing our inaugural State of the Philadelphia Tech Economy Report, a version of which we are publishing for each of the markets we serve. This version is made possible by support from the City of Philadelphia Department of Commerce, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Morgan Lewis, the Penn Center for Innovation and Silicon Valley Bank.
You can download for free. All we ask is you share your name, email and job title.
Inside, you’ll find data and analysis, including our own independent analysis of where Philadelphia’s tech economy is strong, and where it falls short at a national level. We also have examples of our deepest journalism, including our Thriving series, and the people we think best exemplify the region, by way of our RealLISTs. We expect this to become a capstone to the region, and to our own work, each year.
One note on terminology: The words technology, startups and innovation are used semi-interchangeably in phrases with community, ecosystem and economy. But each phrase means something subtly different. This report intentionally is directed at the region’s tech economy — referring to the economic impact of the research, businesses and workforce focused on emerging inventions like software.
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