Years ago I thought Cleveland was becoming a tech city...what happened?

Answer 1

I am not familiar so much with the details of One Cleveland, but I will say that the city has been doing a lot of things to become a tech city.

First of all, the tech boom and bust in the nineties happened everywhere - including Cleveland. However, things seem to be picking up pace.

The city has an economic development director specifically responsible for attracting tech companies. In large part they have been successful in attracting companies along Euclid Avenue - particularly in Playhouse Square - and some other parts of downtown like the Tyler Village development. Companies claim they find downtown Cleveland attractive, because of tech infrastructure available (whatever that means).

The annual Ingenuity Festival held in July celbrates arts and technology in Cleveland. This is another attempt to establish Cleveland as a tech city. The Euclid Corridor transportation project is another, which will bring new high tech bus rapid transit to the city and connect downtown to University Circle.

Of course, there is a desire to piggy back on everything the Cleveland Clinic does, so people talk about biotechnology all the time in Cleveland. Case Western is another justification for technology development with its prized Engeneering program, and they are working on some private company partnership to develop a new technology oriented "West Quad" to their campus. Cleveland also has a renowned Institute of Art with an industrial design program and a consumer product company base, so there is now some kind of district of design specifically geared towards product design and development.

At any rate, it seems to soon to say these efforts aren't paying off. Things seem to be happening, but slowly.

Answer 2

It became one big hospital! I didn't hear that Cleveland was becoming a tech city, I know that it is the spot for health care in America with all these hospitals.

Answer 3

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Interestingly enough, the OneCleveland grid’s backers envisioned healthcare applications as that network’s first “go to” technology, capable of demonstrating the bandwidth-on-demand capabilities via applications such as imaging technologies that mandate high-availability, low-latency facilities. In addition, researchers can scavenge CPU cycles when clinicians aren’t using them. The concept has proved to be so popular that Gonick says the number of nodes on the network has grown “exponentially,” with a 25-fold increase in measured aggregate bandwidth since October 2003. The network has grown from one surrounding greater Cleveland to include 800 kilometers of fiber in 13 northeastern Ohio counties.

Gonick says a funny thing happened as the idea of what the OneCleveland grid would be has evolved—and that evolution might embody in microcosm the way the global perception of grid is changing.

“The whole OneCleveland effort has been organic in that it really started off as an access layer solution,” he says. “Then we tried to figure out from an economic model and services model what it needed to do to be of value. It turns out to be not at the network layer but rather the application services. That kind of got us into a much more interesting, complex ecosystem.”

However, to enable that ecosystem to reach its full potential, Gonick says the principles of the dynamic provisioning technology pioneered by the US and Japanese researchers will have to filter into enterprise and consumer networks.

“Within the greater Cleveland area, we’ve been talking about provisioning on-demand services for any of the three pieces—again, storage, network services, or cycles—to meet specific project requirements. We see that today as being institutionally driven, to optimize services and dollars; but we see that absolutely happening in the not too distant future at the individual soho [small office/home office] level. You’ll be able to essentially click it on and off on a spot market basis or in a longer contract. I don’t think that’s far fetched at all.”>>

http://www.onecleveland.org/news/newsdetail.aspx?id=242

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http://www.onecleveland.org/news/newsdetail.aspx?id=142

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,242171.shtml

And Cleveland is one of the world's leaders in developing real world applications for Second Life:

http://blog.case.edu/lev.gonick/2007/03/19/cleveland_in_second_life_and_the_launch_of_cleveland_20_the_view_from_the_cleveland_plaindealer

http://www.cpl.org/?q=node/2311

As you can see, Cleveland's technology base is evolving. It has a leadership position in medical research and is expanding into digital network applications.

What has hurt badly is the loss of many of its S&P 500 industrial corporations due to acquisitions. The loss of the likes of TRW and British Petroleum's U.S. headquarters took with it much applied industrial research, but much remains. Home-grown medical corporations include Steris and Invacare.

Case Western Reserve University and the city's extensive medical research facilities seem to be the keys to the city's technology future.

Answer 4

I guess u thought wrong.

Answer 5

i dunno??? ahhhhh