{"id":27930,"date":"2016-11-16T14:18:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T14:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zemsania.com\/?p=15440"},"modified":"2022-12-23T11:09:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T11:09:02","slug":"5-european-smart-cities-that-stand-out-for-their-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zemsaniaglobalgroup.com\/en\/5-smart-cities-europeas-que-destacan-por-su-innovacion\/","title":{"rendered":"5 European Smart Cities that stand out for their innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The main European capitals have become, in just a few years, the most important Smart cities worldwide<\/strong>. Spain has Barcelona in the top 10 of innovative European cities and in which there are more facilities to develop technological projects, according to the report. Ten Tech Hubs of the Belgian consulting firm Science\/Business<\/strong>. This report has investigated, among other variables, the investment in R&D<\/strong>, the research personnel<\/strong> and the attraction of public resources. As a result, we obtain a very interesting list, in which Barcelona appears in fourth place. The other cities mentioned in the study are Copenhagen, Stockholm, Munich, Berlin, London, Rotterdam, C\u00f4te d'Azur, Dublin, and Tallinn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are the main characteristics of innovation capitals?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The five leading technology cities in Europe are Copenhagen, Stockholm, Munich, Berlin and London. All of them stand out for having an R&D investment per inhabitant of more than 800 euros (in some cases, such as Copenhagen and Stockholm, it exceeds 2000 euros), more than 2.5% of the active population is working in R&D jobs and many of them attract public resources (from the EU) of more than 100 million euros per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, the advantage between them is that each city has specialized in a particular technological field. They are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n