In today’s global economy, cities rise above international competitors—or not—based on their ability to innovate not within single industries—autos, steel, energy—but rather by finding new points of convergence across them. The implications of this new competitive
landscape for Oklahoma City are significant. Two of the region’s largest economic clusters—energy and health care—are undergoing substantial disruption. The expansion of North American natural gas has opened the energy economy to new players. In health care, life
science and all types of technologies breakthroughs are coupling with information technology in areas like personalized medicine, health, IT and others. Yet as crosscutting technologies—
from “big data” to sensing—expand the competitive playing field in industries critical to Oklahoma City, they also create unprecedented opportunity for the region to vault ahead of its peers. Read more
