The Innovation Cities™ Analysis Report.

2thinknow publish the the Innovation Cities™ Analysis Report. The first and leading annual report on creating urban innovation economies. Purchased by government, chambers, cities, R&D, corporations, researchers, trade boards, mayors, think tanks, tech firms and others globally.

Part of the Innovation Cities Program, as seen in major media.

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Custom Innovation Analyst Reports

Creative Company Analyst Reports

Our well-constructed professional analyst reports apply the latest innovation frameworks outlined in the Innovation Course™ to your business problems. Affordable, and including a 3 stage phone consultation, with a wide variety of options.

Industry Analysis Reports

Leveraging our case studies and city benchmarking data, 2thinknow creates unique innovation analysis reports. Our innovation analysts provide solutions and insights to industries facing disruption.

City Planning Reports

This anlyst report is a detailed change plan to change your city or town. Each City Change Planning Report is structured to apply the Innovation Cities™ Framework and benchmarking data to your city or suburban municipality. The city process include detailed in-person and phone consultations.

Community Change Reports

For towns, suburban fringes, regions, communities, NGOs and others; the community change plan can be integrated to follow the Local Innovation Forum™ event, for an affordable start to changing your community.

Global City Markets

Analyst reports service is available globally in most cases. Events, courses and in-person services are available in USA, Canada, Europe, Oceania, Japan and many more locations. For more information > See Service Locations

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Supporting Innovation Services

Start with the Innovation Course™ for your team, to identify innovation opportunities or change problems. Organize a  Local Innovation Forum™ event in your city or town, to inspire opportunities.

For more options, see the Innovation Toolkit by 2thinknow.

The Innovation Cities™ Analysis Report analyses cities global conditions, identifies current and predicted future conditions to 2025, and provides the leading framework to measure and improve performance during this time.

Learn more & order this report at: http://report.innovation-cities.com

Analyst Report Contents

ANALYSIS:

• Global analysis of city states
• 3 major trends
• How recent economic and social events will affect cities / markets
• Analysis of 4 major regions, broken down into continents from 2011-2025
• Predicted business conditions by trade bloc and region
• Regional and national analyst recommendations.

TRENDS:

• Executive summary of key 21 global trends
• New concepts as to how trends apply to regions
• Likely probable scenarios over next decade for urban economies
• Key factors influencing cities

NOTE: 2thinknow predicted the Global Financial Crisis, the current U.K. political crisis and a need to change the economies of major countries. Our analysis is often contrary to the current news cycle, and does nto change from month to month. Our goal is to be more often correct than news and media analysis, and provide long-term insight for planning.

MODELS:

• Summaries of 2thinknow leading innovation models
• Simple model of innovation that can be explained
• Further reading on other innovation models
• 3 City Challenges model
• Details of key readings

FRAMEWORK:

• Full Innovation Cities™ Framework
• Explanation of 31 analyst segments
• Details of each of 162 City indicators (KPIs for cities)
• Indicative use of framework in Innovation Cities Index
• Specific city examples of innovation

Also included is further details on the Innovation Cities™ Index — the leading ranking of urban innovation economies worldwide. There is added detail on the process and analyst classification of cities for innovation.

Who has purchased this report since 2007:

• R&D departments
• State government leaders
• City Government
• City Mayors
• Federal & State Ministers and advisors
• Trade Promotion (State, City and Regional)
• Public and University Libraries
• Transport & Infrastructure Firms
• Corporate & finance leaders
• Innovation and Researchers and PhDs
• Chambers of Commerce
• Economic Development Authorities

The Innovation Cities™ Analysis Report, Index and Program has been featured on featured on ABC Radio, Reuters, Forbes, Fortune, Boston Globe, NY Times, Fox Business, and in other media.

This is the leading resource on creating and comparing cities as innovation economies, and is published by 2thinknow.

Learn more & order this report at: http://report.innovation-cities.com

Special note for libraries: Request your library purchase a copy.

Because many students may need access to this report, libraries will often purchase a report of this nature for all researchers, and may even reserve it for you once purchased. Libraries also receive a wholesale discount. To assist you with this we prepared a letter for you to adapt and send/fax to your library. > Request to Librarian: Letter to Purchase Analyst Report.

Global Innovation Review™ [GIR] is 2thinknow’s annual process of review of current and predictive future change. An ongoing, continuous review grouped into change trends, innovation cities & creative companies as forces for change in the world.

A Detailed Review.

Included in the Global Innovation Review™ annual process, are:

• World statistics
• City-level data
• Global & regional change trends
• Sector case studies, and
• Creative new companies/new products
• New pre-indicators & processes.

These insights are integrated into all 2thinknow services, and our unique process.

Core Insight: “Global is the Sum of Local”.

Designed in 2005 by our Executive Director Christopher Hire, this process and its systems are central to the 2thinknow model.

The Global Innovation Review™ is evidence-based, empirical research and analysis. Our process is about observing what is happening; is non-linear, associative and the antithesis of traditional ‘assumption-driven’ linear laboratory testing research.

In the Global Innovation Review™ we provide our clients evidence of what works.

Our 3 Innovation Classification Programs.

The Global Innovation Review™ is an ongoing process classifies and structures global change into 3 programs:

• Innovation Cities – est. 2006, launched 2007, beta 2009 (In full production now).
• Change Trends – est. 2006, in beta since 2007.
• Creative Companies – est. 2007, soon in beta.

Get insights from the Review:

Easy Access: A book of the same name, the Global Innovation Review 2007 Annual was published in 2007. The book called for change, highlighted successful cites and warned of consequences in the face of flawed economic dogma.

Since 2009, this annual book has now become the Innovation Cities™ Analysis Report, update 1-2 times per year, and available to order here: report.innovation-cities.com

Innovation Cities™ Analysis Report summarizes all key global and regional change trends, our current framework of indicators for measuring innovation in cities, and further analysis.

Services applying the Review:

Global Innovation Review™ is part of 2thinknow Innovation Technology.

Within 2thinknow Innovation Technology™ Toolkits, available services include City Benchmarking Data™, the Innovation Course™ and our innovation analysis reports.

For a custom applications see 2thinknow Innovation Consulting Services.

Note: Page updated August, 2011.

Custom Innovation Analysis Ready-to-Go in Microsoft PowerPoint (or your slide package)

All 2thinknow Innovation Analysis & Research can be created in PowerPoint slide format tailored to your City, Business, NGO or Government needs.

Innovation Research.

Ready-to-go for presentation, latest innovation  independently compiled by our Master-degreed innovation analysts.

Sector or Trend Research.

Whether Innovation Cities data – eg. comparative city performance on innovation by sector or population – or Change Trends – it’s all available.

Fast.

Quick turnarounds to meet your urgent presentation needs – and it’s all independent innovation analysis, from your innovation analysts, 2thinknow.

Ready-to-go.

Reports can be delivered to your template &/ or corporate branding.

> Contact us to advise your requirements, budget and time frame, for a rapid Proposal.

– Warning to readers in 2007, in the Global Innovation Review 2007 Annual. October 2007 edition.

Global Innovation Review 2007 Annual - Innovation Cities & Change Trends

Innovation Where We live.

This book was primarily a summary of Innovation expressed in terms of Cities we live in. Presciently, Christopher Hire outlined the challenges facing the world – environmental, economic, consumer. And for answers drew together the relevant thinking from the emerging innovation Industry; but with new frameworks.

It is also the first Print publication of the Hire Innovation Loop model, which explains the innovation process in any entity. This was broken down into detail to explain how artistic & cultural cities would benefit in the mid- to long-term.

Cities Analysed in the Review:

Top 8: Vienna, Boston, Paris, New York, Leipzig, Prague, Rome, Melbourne

Cities to Watch: San Francisco & Silicon Valley, Berlin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Washington DC, Perth, Sydney, Frankfurt, Strasbourg, Verona – other cities mentioned elsewhere in review.

The Book, 80 pages, A4, Paperback was tied to the Innovation Cities Rankings 2007.The book was distributed through online booksellers like Amazon; and our earlier website. It is currently not in print in the original version, although we offer it in reprint.

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Edition:

PDF edition $180.00 Print & PDF $250.00 Print edition $180.00

This book is available to order online as a report in reprint , as PDF or Print edition online in a single-user license. All orders ship within 24-48 hours of payment for PDF, and print editions ship within 3 days of payment.

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