There was an interesting piece recently that underscored how Tijuana, and the Mexican state of Baja California, is becoming a center for tech innovation. One very interesting nugget from the piece is that Mexico graduates double the number of engineers per capita every year as the U.S.
According to the Voice of San Diego:
Many companies have already discovered Tijuana is a hotbed for innovation. Chris Anderson, the founder of TED and former editor of Wired magazine, located the manufacturing for 3D Robotics just a short walk from the BIT Center. Anderson’s reasons for picking Tijuana vendors over Chinese: They offered better quality, lower costs and could crank out prototypes faster than vendors in Asia.
It’s important to note that the story also speaks to the ways in which Tijuana’s governments are encouraging this tech growth, supporting a tech hub in the city for example. Read the rest of the piece here.
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Sara Inés Calderón is a journalist and writer who lives between Texas and California. Follow her on Twitter @SaraChicaD.
