Cities need a rational basis to measure, analyse and plan to create innovation.

The Innovation Cities™ Framework brings a professional framework to the analysis of cities. A framework, uniting both the informative statistical economic & personal socio-cultural factors.

The Innovation Cities™ Framework does this by measuring:

• Cultural Assets
• Human Infrastructure
• Networked Markets

Across 31 Innovation Segments using 162 Innovation Indicators.

2thinknow are providing cities, and their stakeholders with leading commercial resources to achieve these next steps, and build innovation in their cities worldwide:

Resources & Services:

Analysis. Setting the global context, and how cities can create innovation is available in the Innovation Cities Analysis Report 2009 – order now.

Data. Detailed City data for any city, is available for purchase from 2thinknow as Single City Data-sets [SCDs].

Events & Advisory by professional innovation analysts on how cities should respond to maximize their opportunities – using the full Innovation Cities Toolkit – is available via phone, video or in-person globally from 2thinknow. > More on Advisory

Public Information:

Public information. 2thinknow’s ranking of Cities in response to these 3 City Challenges is part of the  Innovation Cities Index. This is a published and promoted cities index available online & throughout the media.

The basis for Innovation Cities Index are some key elements explained here:

• Innovation Indicators
• City Benchmarking Data
• Trend Analysis for Cities

More information on our headline: Published Innovation Cities Index – rankings