Savills Investment Management is behind the Dynamic Cities index, which has unearthed the European business cities that can offer truly energetic and thriving environments for companies to flourish.

The firm considered various factors of 130 European business cities to determine which would rank as the top dynamic cities, including economic growth, technology, population and wealth.

Additionally, the ranking of the European business cities was broken down further using these six categories:

(1) Innovation
(2) Inspiration
(3) Inclusion
(4) Interconnection
(5) Investment
(6) Infrastructure

To be considered a dynamic city, the report also looked for universities of a high standard and conditions that will allow businesses to hire and retain talent.

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Savills IM gave a score out of 100 using current and future data to calculate the final results, which placed London at the top of the list of European business cities. The UK capital was helmed the most dynamic location for its knowledge industries, infrastructure, investments, population growth and diversity – even in the face of Brexit and the General Election outcome.

Outside of London though, the UK exhibited further strength with Cambridge in third place. Considered by Savills as a surprise due to it being the smallest city in the top five, it is particularly desirable for its university, 31 per cent employment growth over the past ten years and knowledge-centric companies generating some £11bn in revenue.

Kiran Patel, chief investment officer at Savills IM, said: “Europe’s most dynamic cities are future-proofing themselves by creating environments that encourage the growth of a ‘knowledge economy,’ which will increasingly drive wealth creation.

“The report shows that size isn’t everything: while some ‘supercities’ such as London and Paris are consolidating their already dominant positions, smaller cities such as Cambridge, Edinburgh, Dublin and Stockholm are well positioned to grow in influence over the coming years and are likely to become increasingly attractive locations for property investment.”

Find out which European business cities were ranked the most dynamic: 

	Overall	Inspiration	Inclusion	Innovation	Interconnection	Infrastructure	Investment
1	London	Cambridge	Cambridge	London	London	London	London
2	Paris	London	London	Cambridge	Paris	Paris	Paris
3	Cambridge	Prague	Dublin	Paris	Berlin	Stockholm	Malmö
4	Amsterdam	Oxford	Edinburgh	Amsterdam	Vienna	Cambridge	Munich
5	Berlin	Edinburgh	Lausanne	Munich	Madrid	Brescia	Zurich
6	Munich	Amsterdam	Zurich	Stockholm	Munich	Copenhagen	Amsterdam
7	Dublin	Reykjavik	Oxford	Barcelona	Amsterdam	Oslo	Lausanne
8	Stockholm	Berlin	Brussels	Eindhoven	Copenhagen	Vienna	Stockholm
9	Edinburgh	Dublin	Basel	Berlin	Barcelona	Bern	Geneva
10	Zurich	Basel	Luxembourg	Oxford	Oslo	Berlin	Berlin
11	Madrid	Florence	Barcelona	Madrid	Milan	Amsterdam	Manchester
12	Vienna	Vienna	Reading	Luxembourg	Frankfurt	Brussels	Oslo
13	Oslo	Rome	Manchester	Dublin	Brescia	Stavanger	Frankfurt
14	Oxford	Copenhagen	Paris	Basel	Geneva	Edinburgh	Hamburg
15	Basel	Oslo	Madrid	Zurich	Brussels	Munich	Vienna
16	Lausanne	Madrid	Stockholm	Tallinn	Hamburg	Istanbul	Dublin
17	Barcelona	Bristol	Bristol	Oslo	Innsbruck	Zurich	The Hague
18	Brussels	Paris	Amsterdam	Brussels	Edinburgh	Dublin	Stavanger
19	Copenhagen	Tallinn	Berlin	Lausanne	Bern	Helsinki	Bern
20	Geneva	Belfast	Geneva	Bristol	Stuttgart	Bergen	Brussels

 

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