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Our Growing Innovation EcosystemI N C H I C A G O

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275DIGITAL STARTUPS LAUNCHED EVERY

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Digitization: Where’s It Headed?

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Knowledge-intensive sectors that are highly digitized across most dimensions

Capital-intensive sectors with the potential to further digitize their physical assets

Service sectors with long tail of small firms having room to digitize customer transactions

B2B sectors with the potential to digitally engage and interact with their customers4

5Labor-intensive sectors with potential to provide digital tools to their workforce

Quasi-public and/or highly localized sectors that lag across most dimensions6

Source: McKinsey Global Institute, 2015, Digital America: A tale of the haves and have-mores

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