1. Lots of talk about Miami's innovation economy. Here's a little analysis we did several years back. Lots more of this at our old site for the Miami Urban Future
2. First and foremost, Miami is a near completely different animal than Austin. Austin is a talent/ creative class leader, and Miami is a laggard (though it has some strengths which I'll get to in a minute.
3. Austin's creative class share is 34.% 8th among large metros. San Jose is first by the way with 46.4%. Miami is 47th (out of 53 large metros) with 26%.
4. But like I said Miami does have strengths. With @iamstevenpedigo we can Location Quotients for specific innovative/creative/knowledge/ professional occupations.
5. Key strengths are in financial/HQ & healthcare space: legal occupations LQ 1.75; business & finance 1.06; healthcare 1.08. Much less strength in management .72, computer & mathematics .7; engineering & architecture .59; sciences .5