3 takeaways from the Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore’s annual report

For more evidence that tech is moving into the mainstream economic conversation for Baltimore, look no further than the Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore’s annual report. The 2015 edition was published earlier this month.

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The overview of the region’s “key economic indicators” touches on new development, exports and other business indicators. But there’s plenty of entrepreneurship talk.

Here are three takeaways on companies and workers:

1. Startup Formation was double the national average in Baltimore. Since 2010, startup activity increased by 7.4 percent. The national average among metro areas was 3.1 percent over the same period, the report states. For the report’s purposes, the rate of startup formation is defined as the percentage of companies that are less than one year old.

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