Fast Cities are cauldrons of creativity where the most important ideas and the organizations of tomorrow are centered. They attract the best and brightest. They are great places to work and live. It starts with opportunity. The second component: innovation. Finally, Fast Cities have energy.
Research & Development Clusters
Fort Collins, Colorado
  This big college town is generating patents at the rate of 11.45 a year per 10,000 people, nearly four times the U.S. city average. Colorado State University spins out world-class work in realms from bacterial diseases to sustainable energy, feeding a patent stream that's growing by 21 percent a year.
Seoul, South Korea
  No longer just a hub for copycat technology, the city benefits from terrific basic education. Add in high broadband penetration, a new wave of entrepreneurs in their thirties, and an unusually cosmopolitan generation of scientists trained in the United States, and you have a supercity in the making...