Although Boulder was not one of the largest metropolitan areas included in the study, Brookings officials provided a similarly focused clean-economy profile to the Camera because of the region’s “super” performance on key measures, officials said.
“Boulder is kind of a star … the export number is a signal that some very special things are happening,” said Mark Muro, senior fellow and policy director at the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings.
On average, each Boulder County clean-economy job produces $52,294 in exports, more than double the national clean job export average of $20,129.
Muro also highlighted Boulder County’s concentration of cleantech jobs. While 6.9 percent of the U.S. clean-economy jobs are classified as cleantech, half of Boulder County’s clean jobs fall into that category.
“That’s completely off the charts nationally,” Muro said. ” … It’s very concentrated, extremely concentrated in a whole bunch of some of the most exciting, emerging industries in the country.”
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