Released today in Melbourne, Australia, was the 2thinknow Innovation Cities™ Europe 25 Index - a ranking of Europe's top 25 innovation cities, from 111 major cities across Europe.

Our ranking methodology is outlined in the Innovation Cities Analysis Report, available for purchase. Basically the Index uses an analysis based on looking at 162 Indicators, across 31 segments, compared with benchmark peer cities to derive an Index Score.

Innovation Cities™ Europe 25 Index.

The Global Index is an official part of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation.

Innovation Cities Index is part of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation

The Index is copyright innovation analysts, 2thinknow. It may be reproduced in full as the "2thinknow Innovation Cities™ Europe 25 Index" with a link to this site.

The data is a sub-set of the 2thinknow Innovation Cities Global Index 2009, a ranking of 256 cities worldwide - including all major developed cities. Global rankings are on the right column of the above table, and Index Scores are listed in the Global Index.

To understand the analysis techniques, order the Innovation Cities Analysis Report, available for purchase from 2thinknow.