The Seattle-Puget Sound area is the fourth best tech region in the nation, according to real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle. Three areas around San Francisco led the rankings. Portland was 16th.
In its third annual high-tech office outlook, JLL compared 26 markets using four primary factors:
- overall high-tech employment
- amount of venture capital funding
- number of patents
- number of tech workers as a percentage of people with college degrees
A company representative said employment metrics are weighted most heavily in its rankings.
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