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Innovation Cities™ Indexes by 2thinknow®
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5 Classifications
All cities are classified into 5 classifications based on their index 'band score'. In descending order of importance to innovation:
NEXUS: Critical nexus for multiple economic and social innovation segments
HUB: Dominance or influence on key economic and social innovation segments , based on global trends
NODE: Broad performance across many innovation segments, with key imbalances
INFLUENCER: Competitive in some segments, potential or imbalanced
UPSTART: Potential steps towards relative future performance in a few innovation segments
Any city not classified is unranked.
Global + 4 Regions
As well as the Global Index, and global Top Index, there are 4 Regions broadly defined as follows:
AMERICAS: North and South America
EUROPE: The U.N. defined Europe with European union, plus Western Russia, Israel and major Turkish cities
ASIA: Asia and Oceania (Australia/NZ)
EMERGING: Mid-East, Africa, Turkey and Caucasus states
In regional indexes, the top cities classified are ranked.
Sheet Columns
As well as the Global Index, and Top 100, there are 4 Regions broadly defined as follows:
GLOBAL RANK: Analyst innovation ranking of city
CITY: City name
STATE: Included to differentiate some same name cities.
COUNTRY
REGION: 1 of 4 regions
CLASSIFICATION: 1 of 5 Classifications
BAND SCORE: Cities in the same band (1 to 60) are highly comparable
More detail
On the last sheet, Global data is broken down into 3 factor summary scores, with cities with the same score in each factor comparable.
Cultural Assets: Arts, culture, sports, music,environment, parks, spaces, design and creative assets
Human Infrastructure: Industry, business, manufacturing, technoloogy, retail, utilities, transport, mobility and implementation infrastructure
Networked Markets: Economic, military, trade and global network connection infrastructure
Indicator data for all 162 indicators per city can be ordered from
www.citybenchmarkingdata.com
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About 2thinknow Innovation Cities™ Program:
Based in Melbourne Australia, 2thinknow are a small innovation agency that have since 2006  designed revolutionary models to measure and deliver innovation to cities, business and other clients globally. 2thinknow delivery focus is the Innovation Cities™ Program to provide powerful tools for creating an innovation economy. This includes the city benchmarking data, recently launched local innovation forum events,  analyst reports such as the flagship Innovation Cities™ Analysis Report. 2thinknow work with select clients through consulting, reports and workshops.
2thinknow have published the Innovation Cities™ Indexes city rankings free online since 2007, when they started with 22 cities from a data-set of 95 cities.
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