Background
Christopher Hire found the Innovation Cities™ Index for 2THINKNOW in 2007. This annual city rankings has grown to the world's longest running city ranking for innovation. Reported in major news sources such as the Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Reuters, Huffington Post, New York Times, Fox, Forbes, China Daily, The Age, Financial Post and International Newspapers in over 100 languages.
The index is based on cutting edge algorithmic models of data analysis, data science and advanced data modelling techniques.

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