Microsoft, Amazon Propel Washington to Most Innovative State
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The most innovative state in the U.S. isn’t California, home of Google Inc. and Stanford University, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. It’s Washington, where Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. are based.
California came in second and Massachusetts third in the ranking, which looked at criteria such as the percentage of professionals in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and the number of patents and public technology companies in each state.