Measuring Cities As They Race to the Top

A fresh focus on cities as indicators of startup community health has attracted a new generation of local leaders championing entrepreneurship to the growth and quality of life of their metropolitan areas. Many are also working to improve our understanding of the city entrepreneurship phenomenon and its complex dynamics. How are cities assessing and benchmarking their performance?

As we see greater engagement from traditional institutions in accelerating rates of new firm formation, we are beginning to see more effective methods that assess the impact of any specific intervention in an ecosystem. Cities provide a more "controlled" environment for evaluating interventions, or at least more manageable boundaries for assessing impact.

Although the field is still nascent, here are a few resources that measure through a variety of analytical dimensions:

By Jonathan Ortmans

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