Download the inaugural State of the Pittsburgh Tech Economy Report

Pittsburgh tech advocates confront very real obstacles: The region’s population has continued to stubbornly decline, its tech workforce is less diverse than other tech hubs, and those damn robots can’t safely and reliably drive cars yet. A new independent assessment of progress is in order.

Today Technical.ly is releasing our inaugural State of the Pittsburgh 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 Pittsburgh Innovation District.

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 Pittsburgh’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.

Shoutout to Innovate PGH’s Tech Compass and other ecosystem mapping tools, alongside the Pittsburgh Tech Council’s latest industry report, all of which were referenced in this inaugural report.

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.