Although the region is radically different today than the landscape that greeted Andrew Carnegie and George Westinghouse in the 19th century or Jonas Salk in the 20th century, the same synergy that worked then drives job creation today, experts say.
Indeed, many of today's innovators can trace their roots to the universities, companies and research institutes that those early innovators left behind.
"We have one of the most vibrant innovation systems anywhere in the country," said Richard Lunak, CEO of Innovation Works, a Pittsburgh nonprofit that provides early-stage seed money investments and business resources to technical start-up companies.
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