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Maryland's leading industries by employment are health care and social assistance, state and local government, retail trade, and professional and technical services. Maryland's Gross State Product (GSP) was $295.4 billion in 2010.〔U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2010. Total full-time and part-time employment.〕 The Government sector produced $52.1 billion and accounted for 18 percent of Maryland's GSP in 2009.〔 Federal government, including military and civilian, accounted for slightly more than half at just over $27 billion, while state and local government combined for nearly $25 billion. The Fort George G. Meade military installation, which includes employees of the National Security Agency, is the state's biggest employer at 44,540.〔Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, 2011.〕 The largest private sector industry is real estate with $48.4 billion, or 17 percent of economic activity.〔U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. 2010.〕 Large private employers in Maryland include Black & Decker, Legg Mason, Lockheed Martin, Marriott International, McCormick, Perdue, General Motors, IBM, Northrop Grumman, and Verizon. The state has more than 50 federal agencies and research facilities, including the National Institutes of Health, Food and Drug Administration, National Security Agency, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Maryland also has several universities, including the University of Maryland System and Johns Hopkins University, which receives more research dollars than any university in the country.〔National Science Foundation, data for FY 2009.〕 Maryland ranked second in the Milken Institute’s State Technology and Science Index, which ranks states on their ability to foster and sustain a technology sector. In the report, Maryland was noted for its human capital investment, research and development inputs, technology, and science workforce, and technology concentration and dynamism.〔State Technology and Science Index: Enduring Lessons for the Intangible Economy. Milken Institute. January 2011.〕 The state also has a high concentration of managers, professionals and college-educated residents working in knowledge jobs, and an infrastructure to support technological innovation, according to the 2010 State New Economy Index.〔2010 State New Economy Index. Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.〕 Organizations in Maryland received $525 million in research and development (R&D) awards from the National Institutes of Health〔National Institutes of Health, data for FY 2009.〕 and $11.6 billion in total R&D federal obligations, ranking first among states on a per capita basis.〔National Science Foundation and U.S. Bureau of the Census. Data for FY 2007.〕 Maryland totaled $3.02 billion in R&D expenditures at universities and colleges in FY 2009, with federal government R&D spending at Maryland universities and colleges totaling $2.24 billion.〔National Science Foundation. Data for FY 2009.〕 ==Workforce== Maryland's civilian labor force consistently numbers more than three million workers, with state unemployment tending to be higher in the more rural counties of the Eastern Shore and Western Maryland, as well as Baltimore City.〔Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development. (Employment page ). Retrieved 04-16-2012.〕 Counties in the highly developed corridor between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., where nearly 90% of Maryland's 5.7 million residents live,〔Maryland State Data Center. Data for 2009.〕 typically experience the lowest unemployment rates, according to the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing & Regulation and Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development.〔 Professional and technical workers in Maryland total just over a quarter of the workforce.〔American Community Survey. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. 2010.〕 With 270,000 information technology (IT) workers, the Baltimore-Washington region is ranked first in the concentration of IT employment, even greater than Silicon Valley or Boston.〔“Information Technology in Greater Baltimore,” page 24. (Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore ) (assessment using Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates). May 2007.〕 Maryland ranks first in employed PhD scientists and engineers per 100,000 employed workers, with high concentrations of workers in mathematical sciences, biological sciences, health, and physical sciences, according to the National Science Foundation.〔National Science Foundation, data for 2008; and U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.〕 More than 36 percent of all Marylanders age 25 and above have completed a bachelor's degree or higher, and 16.4 percent have a graduate or professional degree.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Business in Maryland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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