2ThinkNow's Innovation Cities™ Index is about solutions to help you measure and growing urban innovation economies.
The Innovation Cities™ Index is a city ranking, and an evidence-based city development, for economic and social development of cities. The program provides resources for building offering full city benchmarking data, economic case studies and other resources. It is the only commercial program providing our clients with cutting-edge insights, from 500 cities.
The results - published free:
Innovation Cities™ Index 2022-2023
Innovation Cities™ Index 2020-2021
Innovation Cities™ Index - All Years back to 2007.
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Innovation Cities™ Index Resources
Key resources include:
- The Innovation Cities™ Index - annual 500 city rankings.
- Innovation Cities™ Gazette - Regular email updates currently on Substack (replaces the Innovation Cities™ Analysis Report - global city report)
- Innovation Cities™ Analysis Pack - Available for order
- City Benchmarking Data - measuring city performance
- Benchmark Reports - Available for order
- The Innovation Cities™ Forum Event (soon) - previously the Local Innovation Forum event. Community town hall events
- Select other services
About Innovation Cities™ Index
The Innovation Cities™ Index was conceived by 2ThinkNow in 2006, from research commenced in 2005. The first city rankings of 22 cities were scored from 95 cities. This was accompanied by the first Innovation Cities™ Analyst Report, then the Global Innovation Review.
In 2008, this became the Innovation Cities™ Index, expanded to the 256 cities scored for in novation in 2009.
In 2010, the City Benchmarking Data program moved out of beta and into production, benchmarking 256 major global cities.
In 2010, this expanded to 289 cities, and in 2011 the Index grew to cover 330 benchmark cities.
Now, since 2012-2013 the Innovation Cities™ Index covers 500+ cities, across 1300+ Data Points, 162 Indicators and 31 Segments broken down into 3 Factors.
It's the longest running and largest index. Most other indexes follow 2THINKNOW, and/or our influence on rankings is often first. Despite many attempts to copy, ours remains the first and only time series ranking.
Region and City Locations
The Innovation Cities™ Index is independent, and provides insight to clients in city government, investors, trade boards, state and federal government, business and communities across North America (USA & Canada), Australia, New Zealand, European Union, Singapore and Asia.
The Innovation Cities™ Index continues to grow and provide an independent open innovation view centred around transparency and improving actual city results.