The Florida Times-Union – Editorial
“WalletHub, the personal finance website, recently unveiled another of its frequent rankings. This time the focus was on states’ STEM companies and workforce — those firms and jobs in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math — and offered mixed reviews for Florida. The rankings were determined by states’ “human capital” — for example, the number of STEM professionals, the ratio of science and engineering grads in the overall workforce, eighth-graders’ scores on science and math exams — and the “innovation environment” — which was based on things like the number of tech companies relative to the total number of businesses, spending on research and development and the number of patents issued within the states.” (more)