URENIO and other discussions in Europe

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Coverage for the Innovation Cities Index in Europe including academic sites, newspapers, city specialist sites and news services. > more

Innovation Cities Index Asia Coverage

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Coverage for the Innovation Cities Index in Asia, China, Hong Kong, South Korea and SE Asia including newspapers, popular and financial news, and cable news services. > more

Americas Innovation Cities Index Coverage

Innovation News

Coverage for the Innovation Cities Index in USA, Canada, Brazil and Americas from the Huffington Post, Seattle Times, Financial Post, Smart Planet and other North and South American sources. > more

Innovation Cities Index 2011 Launched

Innovation News

The 5th Annual Innovation Cities Index was released today by 2thinknow, classifying city innovation globally. The release includes 4 regional and 2 global indexes for 331 benchmark cities, across 80+ countries. Click thru for rankings and resources. > more

Canadian Cities — Toronto & Innovation in Connected Magazine

Connected Magazine, Canada & Innovation

Toronto amid Top Tech Cities. “Toronto rose to No. 12 last year, from No. 19 in 2009, and is in fourth place in North America” — from a story in Connected Magazine, Canada. How will Toronto rank this year? > more

China Cities and Innovation, a story from Shanghai

China News, Shanghai and Innovation, 2011

2thinknow’s Innovation Cities work was recently featured in Shanghai, in an article from the highly regarded Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The article appeared in a number of Chinese new sources included China.com.cn. Read more in English and Chinese here. > more

“New York – Des villes et des idées” in Le Devoir newspaper

le devoir Newspaper

How does New York rank for innovation & ideas? Here is a recent piece (in Francais) in Montreal’s Le Devoir newspaper, about New York’s Museum of Contemporary Art approach to sparking creative ideas. 2thinknow innovation Cities Index is used for comparison. > more

SMH: Artists tapped to renew cities’ ailing CBDs?

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From Chris Zappone at the Age newspaper (republished Sydney Morning Herald): “Artists tapped to renew cities’ ailing CBDs?”.Examples used are recent movements to renew steel / manufacturing centres Newcastle & Geelong using arts segment. > more