![]() The state’s above-average concentrations of academic research in fields such as IT are so far failing to translate into above-average employment concentrations in pertinent advanced industries. The state lags on converting top-quality research into growth firms and broader employment growth.Most starkly, Pennsylvania reduced its investments in innovation programs by nearly two-thirds during the Great Recession, and has failed to rebuild in subsequent years. State government has seemed to lack a clear commitment to innovation and has let its core innovation programs languish.Underlying Pennsylvania’s innovation drift lie four challenges that are holding the state back: Overall, Pennsylvania ranked sixth out of nine peer states in terms of advanced industry job growth, lagging Indiana and Massachusetts by 9 percentage points and Michigan by 23. From 2010 to 2019, Pennsylvania saw its advanced industry jobs grow by an aggregate 10.9%, trailing the national sector by 8 percentage points. On the other hand, the state’s accumulation of economically crucial advanced industry jobs has been lagging. At the same time, the state has begun to develop a set of nationally competitive innovation clusters in areas such as the life sciences, computer and information services, robotics, chemicals, and plastics and rubber products. ![]() ![]() The state’s $4.8 billion higher education R&D enterprise ranked fourth-largest in the nation in 2020. On the one hand, Pennsylvania has a rich innovation history, with strong research universities and several groundbreaking innovation programs. Overall, the report draws several key conclusions: Pennsylvania excels at university-based R&D but lags in high-value, high-pay job creation. This report reviews the state’s major innovation trends and challenges, and suggests a set of state-level policy recommendations with an eye toward helping the new governor energize the state’s innovation sector. Given that, Pennsylvania needs to unlock its innovation potential, which will require catalytic steps on the part of state government. ![]() And yet, for all that, Pennsylvania has not been able to convert its assets into abundant, high-quality economic growth or broad-based employment across an array of high-tech, high-pay advanced industries. ![]()
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