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.
Innovation Analysts 2ThinkNow released today in an in-depth report, a 4 year global study of which cities were winning the global innovation race and why. The centrepiece was a 162 indicator framework to build innovation cities globally.
Boston has been rated the best US city for innovation, tying scores with previous winner Vienna in Europe. Boston also edged past Amsterdam, Paris, San Francisco, which rounded out the top five cities in the annual 2ThinkNow Innovation Cities Index.
Boston was named as the 2007 Americas Innovation Winner, in the Global innovation Review 2007, an independent comparative report by 2thinknowTM. Boston was ranked second place globally on universal criteria of Inspiration, ability to implement innovation locally, and access to markets for innovation.