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Expansion Management magazine consistently ranks the Pittsburgh region as a top 10 U.S. location for business, and it’s easy to see why. In addition to a strategic location, low operating costs, and access to an ample, skilled workforce, the region has unique strengths in the industries that are shaping the future.
Read the fact sheet on Pittsburgh’s complete package for living and doing business (PDF file) and explore our unique industry strengths below – all supported by a critical mass of companies, R&D initiatives, public and private sector partnerships and more.
Also see our Regional Data, which is also available in hard copy. The hard copy of our regional data, "2009 Connections: Pittsburgh Region by the Numbers," can be ordered free of charge through Kristen Freiss, Director, Marketing.
Our Target Sectors:
Other Key Industries:
Four Target Sectors
Information & Communications Technology (ICT) - A “Top 10 Tech Town,” the region is a breeding ground for technological innovation. The region has 1,600 ICT firms employing more than 28,000 people and invested $750 million of venture capital in emerging regional businesses during the last five years.
Key centers of innovation and collaboration:
Read more (PDF file)
View our list of Leading ICT Companies.
Life Sciences - As a top receiver of National Institutes of Health R&D funding, the region boasts assets like the pioneering transplantation techniques of Thomas E. Starzl and the jointly established Carnegie Mellon - University of Pittsburgh Computational Biology Graduate Program. To put it simply, our innovations are saving lives.
Key centers of innovation and collaboration:
Read more (PDF file)
View data about Leading Life Sciences Companies (PDF)
Advanced Manufacturing - The historic legacy as a manufacturing center combined with the high-tech strengths of today’s Pittsburgh region, make the region a natural hotbed of advanced manufacturing technology – deemed one of “America’s Hottest Cities” to locate a manufacturing business.
Key centers of innovation and collaboration:
- DSN Innovations creates Network-Centric Manufacturing enterprises that enable manufacturing networks to most efficiently fulfill specific production needs. Learn more (PDF file)
Read more (PDF file)
View data about Large Advanced Manufacturing and Materials Companies (PDF file)
The region’s strategic location for Distribution & Logistics compliments your manufacturing needs. Read more (PDF file)
Energy - Our diversified energy economy – built on a 150-year history of energy innovation – has strengths in seven strategic energy sectors, plus 800 firms supporting 105,000+ jobs and generating $13+ billion annually (which is 10% of our gross regional product). Nearly $1 billion is invested annually in energy-related R&D across government, university and the private sector.
Key centers of innovation and collaboration:
Read more (PDF file)
Learn more about our seven strategic energy sector strengths
Other Key Industries
Defense & Security - The Pittsburgh region is a national leader in Defense & Security-related industries – including bioterrorism, cyber security, electro-optics and industrial security. It will soon be home to the first national Joint Readiness Center, an integrated model of military, civilian medical, and private-sector resources to provide unique, flexible, and effective emergency preparedness, response and recovery. Our regional emergency management organization, Pennsylvania Region 13, is already considered a national best practices model by the FBI and FEMA. The region’s safe location with an extremely low-risk of natural disasters (PDF map) enhances these assets.
Key Centers of Innovation and Collaboration:
- DSN Innovations creates Network-Centric Manufacturing (NCM) enterprises and specializes in the defense industry. Learn more about NCMs (PDF file)
Read more (PDF file)
Distribution & Logistics - With the No. 2 “Best Infrastructure” in North America, a top-ranked airport, and nearly half the U.S. and Canadian populations within a day’s drive, along with 63 percent of the national industrial output and 53 percent of the U.S. buying income, the Pittsburgh region is the place from which to reach your markets – quickly and efficiently.
Read more (PDF file)
View various transportation information including regional air, port, motor and rail service
Health Care Support - Health care support operations in the region benefit from an abundant workforce in the pharmacy, pharmacy tech, nursing and customer service fields. Plus, there is our safe location with an extremely low risk of natural disasters (PDF map) along with our strengths for distribution and logistics (PDF file)
Read more (PDF file)
View information about regional Health Care facilities
Medical Devices - Our medical device industry combines the Pittsburgh region’s greatest strengths – life sciences, advanced manufacturing, and information and communications technology. Grounded in a culture of innovation, the region spends nearly $500 million per year on life science R&D. The 34 expansions/relocations it experienced between 2002-2009 include those by world-leaders like Best Medical, Haemonetics, MEDRAD and Philips Respironics.
Key Centers of Innovation and Collaboration:
- The Quality of Life Technology Center, an NSF Engineering Research Center, is a Carnegie Mellon–University of Pittsburgh partnership that applies innovations to eldercare and rehabilitation
Read more (PDF file)
Robotics - Dubbed “Roboburgh” by The Wall Street Journal, the Pittsburgh region is a center of innovation that is continually changing the face of robotics – in space, underground and on the battlefield. World-class R&D, an array of public-private partnerships and top talent are among the resources making fruitful ground for robotics companies.
Key Centers of Innovation and Collaboration:
- The Quality of Life Technology Center, an NSF Engineering Research Center, is a Carnegie Mellon–University of Pittsburgh partnership that applies innovations to eldercare and rehabilitation
Read more (PDF file)
Shared Services - Our abundant skilled workforce and low cost of doing business (including low office space rental costs) make the region an ideal location for shared services operations. The region has 250,000 people employed in business, information technology, financial, legal and other services.
Read more (PDF file)
View information on Customer Service/Call Centers Back Office Operations (PDF file) and the Grubb & Ellis research reports on regional data.
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