The Rise of the Interior Innovation Corridor

For decades, America’s story of innovation has been told through the lens of its coastal monetary centers — Silicon Valley, Boston, New York, and Seattle. But a new narrative is taking shape across the nation’s interior. Stretching from the Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast and from the Appalachians to the Plains, the Interior Innovation Corridor is emerging as one of the most dynamic, untold stories of twenty-first-century economic transformation.

The Corridor represents more than geography — it’s a movement of people, ideas, and capital rediscovering the power and love of place.