Ideopolis Internationa

The ideopolis is a city of ideas, where knowledge, creativity, enterprise, connectivity and the quality of life combine to create a dynamic local economy. In effect, ideopolis are cities where those who can choose where to work and live, choose to work and live.

The ideopolis is shaped from a number of converging forces. These range from its physical assets through its energy and connectivity to its knowledge base. From the interplay of these forces it is possible to construct measures for profiling the past, current and future capacity for specific communities to become Ideopolis and, as such, lead the economic development of their region, nation or continent.

The appeal of becoming a "city of ideas" in the first decades of a knowledge-based industrial revolution is enormous. The ability to attract talent and convert that talent through ideas to prosperity is the only secure long-term economic strategy. Already cities often identified as ideopolis such as San Francisco, Boston and Seattle in the USA and Barcelona, Edinburgh and Helsinki in Europe are seen as hubs for creative, dynamic communities.

At Ideopolis International we turn this broad, visionary concept into practical reality for local leaders determined to ensure that their communities realize their full potential in the economy of the future. Much of our work centres on benchmarking the performance of specific cities against others in the same region, country, part of the world or globally for public agencies and the private sector. We benchmark cities, then work to build on strengths and overcome any weaknesses as the community strives to match the exacting standards set to join this genuine elite.