Delaware can cut both ways: It’s a statewide identity that boosters collectively champion, yet it’s also mostly a component of a region in another state.
This has always made things quirky for Technical.ly’s analysis of this place. Delaware residents (and data) flow across boundaries, like the 30,000 locals who commute to the Philadelphia region for work — and nearly that many who flow into Delaware each day, according to our data. So, like, the First State, Technical.ly looks at it both ways.
Today Technical.ly is releasing our inaugural State of the Delaware Tech Economy Report, a version of which we are publishing for each of the markets we serve. Though portions of Delaware data (and people) show up in a previously released Philadelphia tech economy report, this version is all Delaware — and made possible by support from the Longwood Foundation, Tech Council of…