New Orleans appears among the top cities and most improved in concentration of technology start-ups

The NewOrleans metro area appears as a rising center for the technology industry in recentreports from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a Kansas City-basednon-profit organization that supports and tracks entrepreneurship. A reportreleased this month found New Orleans to have the 19^th highestdensity of high-tech start-ups among large metropolitan areas in 2010 afterfailing to show anywhere in the top 20 in 1990.

Thereport found New Orleans charting the fourth largest increase among the largecities from 1990 to 2010, with Seattle, Wilmington, Del.