Downsizing made county fertile ground for high-tech start-ups

The Business Report, in cooperation with staff and students at the University of Colorado’s Center for Entrepreneurship, has been reporting on their ongoing research tracing the family tree of Boulder County’s entrepreneurial marketplace. The Boulder County Genealogy Study in online at bus.colorado.edu/faculty/meyer/BCG.htm.

The mention of genealogy usually conjures up images of family trees and sepia photographs — not concepts like economic development or start-up companies. A group of researchers at University of Colorado, however, are changing this perception with a study of the development of the high-tech industry in Boulder County.

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