Data is also available for many locations not on this list, with extra review time, so please ask.

U.S.A. | CANADA | LATIN AMERICA | CHINA | JAPAN | INDIA | OCEANIA | EUROPE | AFRICA | MID-EAST | EURASIA*
*Former Soviet States/Caucasus/New Republics

U.S., CANADA, & LATIN AMERICA:

ASIA CITIES:

EUROPEAN CITIES:

AFRICA, MID-EAST & EURASIA:

FAQ for our Innovation Cities™ Services Catalog, delivered by 2thinknow.

Where do you ship reports and data to?

North and South America, Europe, Asia, and almost any location globally.

Where do you deliver services globally?

Most major cities globally. For emerging regions, where there is no active or recent travel advisory by the U.S. State Department or Australia’s DFAT.

Is shipping included for data and reports?

Yes by international airmail.

This is a draft FAQ, more to come.

Each Innovation Discovery helps you find answers to difficult problems in your city and sector. Your project begins with an idea search, and can be a very affordable end-to-end solution to innovation.

Use Innovation Discovery to launch a new city service, find a foreign supplier for a new service, solve your difficult problems or find ideas that have worked in cities around the world. Only our analysts have access 2thinknow’s massive City Benchmarking Data database of the world’s cities, to deliver your innovation.

About Innovation Discovery

Each Innovation Discovery has 3 phases, start with ideas or choose the one you need.

Idea Search

Our analysts find the most creative ideas for your problem. You provide your brief and our program analysts provide you a shortlist of 5-7 plausible ideas from other markets. The process takes only 7-21 days.

The answer to your problem is provided in slide or document format for your discussion and presentation.

Implementation Design

Our analysts select and assess the 2-3 ideas most aligned with your specific needs. We research and present you information on the design of possible implementation paths, as part of our service innovation.

This process takes 14-21 days. Also in slide or document format, as well as video-conference option.

Solution Connect

Our senior analysts make the connections to the suppliers, businesses, agencies and correct people who can make your ideas happen. Introductions and connections will be made via video-conference, online and phone.

This phase takes from 10-30 days typically, depending on complexity.

You can select only 1 phase, or complete all 3 phases of the Innovation Discovery service. Innovation Discovery is designed to be an extremely affordable complete service, especially when compared with management consulting.

Pricing

Affordable pricing for each phase is listed here.

Booking Discovery

Please contact our analysts here.

Custom innovation consulting consists of these major types of projects:

Private Advisory

Private strategic advice on specific change initiatives in your city and business. Delivered one-to-one by senior analysts.

Smart Consulting

Regular consulting engagement with analysts: via email, smartphone, SMS, Facetime, Skype, video-conference and new communication technologies. Our analysts work with you wherever you are.

Project Secondments

Long-term innovation project secondments from idea-generation, design to implementation monitoring, and results communication. Our analysts work with you, from one analyst part-time, to analyst teams.

Achieve your innovation plans, by using our innovation analysts to deliver your innovation projects.

‘Quick-Hits’

Short-term consulting to achieve your immediate project needs.

Other consulting arrangements limited by your imagination. Please ask us.

Locations

Our innovation analysts can deliver projects in Australia/NZ, China, Asia, USA and other global locations. Please ask us.

Consulting Rates

Consulting engagement rates vary by location, and engagement type. Daily and hourly rates available for short-term. Monthly retainers also for high availability assignments.

Booking Consulting

Ask us about your project — contact us here.

Each year since 2007, the Innovation Cities™ Index has announced the world’s most innovative cities. Since this time, results of the the Index has been mentioned in global media like the Boston Globe, Reuters, New York Times, Seattle Times, China People’s Daily, Forbes, Entrepreneur and others. Our index receives several million views across multiple sites, and is tracked by over 65% of world cities (as at Feb. 2012).

The Innovation Cities™ Index each years issues award certificates and trophies to the world’s innovation cities.

Annual Indexes

Since 2009 this included more than 256 cities worldwide. In 2011, the number was 331 cities — view the Indexes here. This makes the Innovation Cities™ Index and Program the world’s largest program of city data and measurement. The first 2007 city rankings started with a select 22 cities.

The Innovation Cities™ Program is by independent innovation agency, 2thinknow.

Printed certificates and award trophies for your city are available for all cities listed in the current Index.

City Award Certificates and Trophies

To automatically receive a city trophy or certificate, cities can purchase a silver or platinum service package.

Representatives of cities, governments, businesses and agencies can order Index certificates and trophies individually for your city. To order trophies and certificates download and return this order form here.

More information on city trophies and award certificates.

Award presentations

Should you like to organize a city innovation event with an award presentation please contact us.

The Innovation Cities™ Analysis Report contains the basis of our analysis of cities, for measuring and changing city performance, creating dynamic urban innovation economies. Based on in-person research, extensive city data and innovative theories of city development, the Innovation Cities™ Analysis Report provides you a basis for growing innovative cities.

The report is updated based on the very latest information, 2-3 times per year.

What this report contains:

These are the major sections of your report:

• Innovation Actions — Analyst recommendations for innovation in 4 global regions (North & South America, Europe, Asia / Oceania & Emerging)
• Global Innovation Review– State of innovation around the world, and current innovation trends. Broken down into:
  • 3 City Challenges: Explanation of challenges of each city location
  • 21 Global Trends: Key updated global trend predictions for 2013-2016.
  • The Global Story: Narrative of how global innovation is unfolding and specific implications for economies/markets.
  • 4 Region Analysis: Analysis of trend predictions for innovation in countries in all 4 regions: North & South America, Europe, Asia / Oceania & Emerging.
    Note: Past years warnings that have come true include: have included the GFC, collapse of finance, recession/depression, strength of Germany
• Innovation Cities Framework [ICF]– Explanation of our framework for structured measurement, comparison and creation of innovation in cities. Comprised of:
  • 3 Factors: Summary reporting headline innovation(as seen in the Index)
  • 31 Segments: Planning, measuring or comparing innovation by industry or community/segment
  • 162 Indicators: Breakdown of location performance into Indicators (known in business as KPIs)
    First published in full in 2009, updated in this edition.
  • Index Method — Explanation of the framework applied as the 2011 Innovation Cities Index Methodology
  • 2011 City Scores — Table of 3 Factor Scores for 331 cities based on our framework [ICF]
  • Additional materials.

Who buys

Globally: City governments, state governments, think tanks, technology research companies, trade boards, universities, libraries, economic associations, venture capitalists and private investors.

The reports ship to any country.

Basic format

The Innovation Cities™ Analysis Report is semi-annual, and was first published in 2007. List of all editions

The report is 118 A4 large format pages. Lie-flat print binding. Ships as PDF & Print.

PDF is designed to be compatible with all mobile and computing devices, including iPads.

Pricing

AUD $500 for the standard edition (PDF & Print). Print edition only is AUD $400.

Innovation Cities™ Service Packages are annual and monthly, including all updates to this report, analyst support and innovation services.

How to order the Analysis

To order use the online order form here, download the PDF Order form, or use the PayPal link.

The report has its own website: http://report.innovation-cities.com

Other Product Configurations:

Detailed City Benchmarking Data: by Indicator and Segment.

The Innovation Cities™ Program has been featured in Boston Globe, Reuters, ABC Australia, New York Times, Forbes, Seattle Times, Entrepreneur Magazine as well as Asian newspapers such as the People’s Daily and Xinhua or Russian newspapers like the Moscow Times. Global purchasers of our program services include business and government from USA to Europe, Hong Kong and China.

The Innovation Cities™ Program is the only program offering global insight to your event attendees from across the world. Entertaining, empowering and new insight await your audience.

You can make the dynamic content of the Innovation Cities Program into your city innovation event.

Event Collaboration

We work with you as a local organizer to create an amazing local innovation event in your city. Your event can range from a seminar to a congress or conference, and Innovation Cities™ Program and Index can lead your audience to greater innovation.

We include case studies, slides and powerful innovation models and messages that will motivate your audience to feel great and achieve greater innovation !

Each event is an amazing opportunity for a mixed audience of business leaders and city leaders seeking the very latest in global innovation.

Product Opportunity

The Innovation Cities™ Program provides a massive range of data, analysis and reports that can be packaged and sold to your audience. This ranges from small USB stick units to printed reports, and ongoing services, assisting attendees with their innovation implementation.

For organizers only our Innovation Cities Program™ can provide these products. Let’s negotiate commissions on all sales made during the event. This is a large ‘back-end’ opportunity.

So the more tickets event organizers can sell, the greater the mutual earnings of our collaboration.

Event Organizers

In 2012-2013 we are seeking to work with local organizers and agents who can package a serious life changing innovation event, in a major conference venue.

We can provide all content and presenters for your event, as well as back-end product.

Request your 2thinknow company profile, to start the journey to partner with us for your event. Contact 2thinknow here.

Locations:

China, Asia — seeking a local event agent in major Asian countries.

United States, Canada, Europe — we’d like to hear from you.

Other location, please ask here.

Other events:

For local communities, in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Europe only we also offer the smaller half-day Local Innovation Forum™ event — for community innovation. As an organizer you provide a town hall or smaller venue for these events.

Your City Analysis Report is a report on a single city anywhere. Your city report is full of fresh ideas, new information and insights on your city’s innovation economy. Each city report written by program analysts includes:

• Overview Details on 1 City
• Analysis of Innovation in City
• Summaries of 31 segments by industry
• Includes city ranking (3 factor scores)

There are two options on your city analysis report:

City Analysis Standard

This report enables you to understand an your cities potential for innovation, on a by industry basis. This report is 15-24 pages in length (A4/Letter size) as Word/PDF.

City Analysis Deep-Dive

This report enables you to argue a case for change, and present to large groups, with the same analysis as the standard report, plus graphs, and city benchmarking data excerpts This is 32-48 pages for most cities.

Also included in the Deep-Dive is the entire report in PowerPoint slide format, for your convenience.

Locations

Any city over 100,000 population (metro area).

About the report

This is a professional consulting report, written by our analysts, who have access to extensive City Benchmarking Data, other databases and specialist research skills.

Our reports are compiled in Melbourne, Australia by Masters qualified analysts.

Pricing

City Analysis Report: Standard report is currently AUD $750 all inclusive*. Current pricing for the City Analysis Report: Deep Dive report is listed on service pricing here.

*Because this is introductory pricing, no package discounts apply to this service. Australian residents add 10% GST to sales.

Delivery

7-14 days or by otherwise arrangement. Sent to your email address.

Order Now

To order please contact us here.

Other Services

Detailed city data for 162 indicators are contained in the City Benchmarking Data Single City Data-Set. This is over 300 slides of data, and over 40 graphs. See service pricing.

Note your standard city analysis report does not contain indicator data, deep-dive reports contain data excerpts by 2thinknow.