Madison is one fast city. So says Fast Company magazine in its article examining worldwide centers that offer the best in economic innovation and opportunity. Madison is named a Startup Hub in the listing of Fast Cities 2007.
….According to the magazine, “Fast Cities” are considered worldwide centers of creativity where the most important ideas and organizations of the future are located. They attract the best and brightest. They are great places to work and live.
The main reason Madison was chosen for the ranking, to be published in the magazine’s July-August issue, is research and development spending. The article reports that the University of Wisconsin-Madison spends more in research and development than Stanford, MIT or Harvard.