London tops the list of most digital entrepreneur-friendly cities in Europe
Today at the ICT 2015 event in Lisbon, Nesta and the European Digital Forum think tank – which I’m on the advisory board of, I should note – are launching the European Digital City Index, an attempt to measure capital (and a few other) EU cities against a number of criteria set by 90+ digital entrepreneurs, policy researchers and academics. The index finds that London, perhaps unsurprisingly, provides the best support for both startups and scale-ups. For both categories, cities like Stockholm, Amsterdam and Helsinki also understandably receive top marks. That said, the ranking does have a couple of surprises in store...