{"id":178,"date":"2012-06-29T21:07:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T21:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.websitefix.net\/clients\/Generic\/?page_id=178"},"modified":"2022-01-25T21:04:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T21:04:37","slug":"economy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/Massachusetts3\/ResidentialProperties\/?page_id=178","title":{"rendered":"Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEMOGRAPHICS \/ ECONOMY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the birthplace of the American Revolution and the cradle of the industrial revolution, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts boasts a distinguished tradition of ingenuity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Today, Massachusetts offers businesses many unique advantages. Among them are:<\/p>\n<p>* One of the nation&#8217;s largest research and development tax credits.<br \/>\n* Number one nationally for Small Business Innovation Research grants.<br \/>\n* Massachusetts has produced half of all the Nobel Prize winners in the<br \/>\nnation.<br \/>\n* Number one nationally in the concentration of science and engineering<br \/>\ngraduates.<br \/>\n* Number one nationally for having the best innovation assets.<br \/>\n* Number one nationally for resident with the highest college attainment.<br \/>\n* Number one nationally in the number of high-tech companies per capita and level of venture capital.<br \/>\n* Grade &#8220;A&#8221; for performance, development capacity, and business vitality<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Industries<\/strong><br \/>\nAdvanced Materials<br \/>\nBiotechnology<br \/>\nEducation &amp; Research<br \/>\nElectronics<br \/>\nEnvironmental Technology<br \/>\nFabricated Metals<br \/>\nFinancial Services<br \/>\nHealth Services and Medical Technology<br \/>\nInd. Machinery &amp; Equip.<br \/>\nInformation Technology<br \/>\nPaper<br \/>\nPhotonics<br \/>\nPlastics<br \/>\nSoftware<br \/>\nTelecommunications<br \/>\nTextiles &amp; Apparel<br \/>\nTourism<\/p>\n<p><strong>Labor and Workforce information<\/strong><br \/>\nFor a list of major employers as well as information about the job market in Massachusetts please visit the Massachusetts Labor and Workforce Development website:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/orgs\/executive-office-of-labor-and-workforce-development\">https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/orgs\/executive-office-of-labor-and-workforce-development<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEMOGRAPHICS \/ ECONOMY As the birthplace of the American Revolution and the cradle of the industrial revolution, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts boasts a distinguished tradition of ingenuity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Today, Massachusetts offers businesses many unique advantages. Among them are: * One of the nation&#8217;s largest research and development tax credits. * Number one nationally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-178","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/Massachusetts3\/ResidentialProperties\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/Massachusetts3\/ResidentialProperties\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/Massachusetts3\/ResidentialProperties\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/Massachusetts3\/ResidentialProperties\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/Massachusetts3\/ResidentialProperties\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/Massachusetts3\/ResidentialProperties\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":733,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/Massachusetts3\/ResidentialProperties\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178\/revisions\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/Massachusetts3\/ResidentialProperties\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}