An open innovation process for cities, business and communities.
Cities face changing business needs, new industries and demands of community and citizens. Cities will need to adapt and innovate, as business and community will need to seize opportunities for innovation. Opinion is not enough, what is needed is an open innovation process.
The Innovation Cities™ Program is an open innovation process for decision-making, planning and changing cities. The process is comprised of tools for your business, city and community to measure, compare, reward and plan to change your city. These include:
An Index to score, rank and reward urban innovation.
Using benchmarking data as the basis, a 3-factor ranking of 256+ cities actual performance on innovation. The largest city ranking, based on the broadest base of indicators.
3 factors making it easier to evaluate & communicate ideas.
Communicating factors gives cities a balanced cosmopolitan feel and economic impact. Cultural Assets capture the importance of arts, sports, culture and community to the local economy. Human Infrastructure measures the infrastructure of business, freight, mobility, finance and economics. Networked Markets are needed to project cities regionally, nationally and globally in a changing and digital networked world.
Industry and community together, in balance.
Multi-sector innovation acknowledged innovation in 31 city industry and community segments – including arts, music, sports, environment, business, commerce, government, energy, politics, museums, economics and many more.
The Innovation Cities™ Framework. A structured framework.
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, based on the largest ever benchmarking study of cities worldwide.
City Performance Indicators. Detailed performance measures.
The design of city performance indicators to measure key performance areas allows us to benchmark city performance.
New Innovation Models. Giving form to ideas.
New innovation models from 2thinknow, as part of the program, are designed to create new tools for the management of cities.
2thinknow are providing you with both commercial and free resources to achieve change in cities wherever you are.
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