Metro Seattle ranks 10th in the new report on life-science clusters from the real-estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle. Considering we’re the nation’s 15th largest metropolitan statistical area and come in higher than ones with some formidable assets, including Denver, Chicago and Washington D.C.
The less-good news is this is where Seattle stood last year.
Indeed, the top life sciences clusters haven’t budged in their dominance over the past year. So this year’s top five sound familiar: Boston, Raleigh-Durham, San Francisco, San Diego and New York City.
JLL scores the metros based on employment concentration in life sciences, employment growth, concentration of establishments in the field, life-sciences venture capital funding, National Institutes of Health funding and number of patents.