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A study carried out by :

Entrepreneurship ranking 2007

A study carried out by :

Direction Générale Entreprise

ECER 2007, Survey ECER measures the effectiveness of local initiatives according to

satisfaction and importance as indicated by creators of businesses

André JoyalUniversité Québec Trois-RivièresCanada

Olivier TorresUniversité de Montpellier et EM LyonFrance

David SmallboneKingston UniversityPresident ECSB UK Nadine

LevrattoCNRS, ENS, OCDEFrance

Laura GaillardUniveristé de BOCCONIItalie

Olivier CrevoisierUniversité de NeuchâtelSuisse

Hans CrijnsVlerick Leuven Gent Management School Belgique

Scientific committee :Sampling with geographical and company profile criteria :

Initial sample of 80 000 businesses 21 cities in 11 European countries 1600 business creators interviewed between September and October 2007

Business created between 2003 and 2004

5 different types of firms : innovative, traditional - trading, services, industrial.

21 cities ranked in five

Questions within

five fields: • PROMOTION• ANTE CREATION• POST CREATION• FINANCING• ENVIRONMENT

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1110

98765

4321

Rang

1 GOTEBORG2 STOCKHOLM3 BIRMINGHAM4 AMSTERDAM5 LONDON6 GENEVA7 BRUSSELS8 WARSAW9 BERLIN

10 LYON11 LILLE12 FRANKFORT13 MUNICH14 BARCELONA15 MADRID16 PORTO17 MILAN18 MARSEILLE19 ROME20 LISBONNE21 PARIS

ECER 2007 cities Overall ranking with 5

themes

Classification ECER 2007

PARISLISBONNE

ROME

MARSEILLEMILAN

PORTOMADRIDBARCELONAMUNICHFRANKFORT

LILLE

LYONBERLIN

WARSAWBRUSSELSGENEVA

LONDONAMSTERDAM

BIRMINGHAMSTOCKHOLM

GOTEBORG

20 30 40 50 60 70 80

Overall ranking

ECER 2007 : RANKING ON PROMOTION

20 30 40 50 60 70 80

ROME

MILAN

LISBONNE

PORTO

BERLIN

PARIS

MARSEILLE

LYON

FRANKFORT

BARCELONA

LILLE

GENEVA

LONDON

MUNICH

WARSAW

MADRID

BRUSSELS

AMSTERDAM

STOCKHOLM

BIRMINGHAM

GOTEBORG

ECER 2007 : RANKING ON ANTE CREATION

20 30 40 50 60 70 80

LISBONNE

MADRID

MARSEILLE

ROME

PARIS

FRANKFORT

PORTO

MUNICH

MILAN

WARSAW

LYON

BERLIN

BARCELONA

LILLE

BIRMINGHAM

GENEVA

LONDON

AMSTERDAM

BRUSSELS

GOTEBORG

STOCKHOLM

Promotion Ante Creation

ECER 2007 : RANKING ON FINANCING

20 30 40 50 60 70 80

PARIS

MADRID

MILAN

LISBONNE

BARCELONA

PORTO

MUNICH

MARSEILLE

FRANKFORT

ROME

LYON

GENEVA

BERLIN

AMSTERDAM

LILLE

STOCKHOLM

BRUSSELS

LONDON

BIRMINGHAM

GOTEBORG

WARSAW

ECER 2007 : RANKING ON ENVIRONMENT

20 30 40 50 60 70 80

ROMA

MILAN

WARSAW

LISBONNE

PARIS

BARCELONA

MARSEILLE

MUNICH

FRANKFORT

LILLE

PORTO

BERLIN

BRUSSELS

MADRID

LYON

LONDON

STOCKHOLM

GENEVA

AMSTERDAM

GOTEBORG

BIRMINGHAM

ECER 2007 : RANKING ON POST CREATION

20 30 40 50 60 70 80

PARIS

MARSEILLE

LISBONNE

PORTO

ROME

BARCELONA

MADRID

MUNICH

MILAN

LYON

LILLE

BRUSSELS

WARSAW

FRANKFORT

LONDON

BERLIN

GENEVA

BIRMINGHAM

AMSTERDAM

STOCKHOLM

GOTEBORG

Post creation Financing Environment

• The region offers growth programs to the small and medium-sized companies (1,005 member companies are active in these growth programs).

• A clusterpolicy by branch has been implemented for the following industries : biotechnologies and health industry, automotive and car industries, ICT, clothing, wood and creative industries.

• The Universities have developed training programs dedicated to entrepreneurship and business creation• the Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship• the Goteborg International Bioscience Business School

ECERs concluding remarks abouts Göteborgs position:

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