ABSTRACT
The World Knowledge Competitive Index 2004 has ranked more than 40 Western European regions of the total 125 worldwide regions analyzed in the study by Huggins et al. (2004). Their global rankings are listed here in parentheses. The Stockholm, Sweden, region (15) and the Helsinki, Finland, Uusimaa region (19) are the highest-ranked regions in Europe. While having lower ranked regions, Germany has Europe’s largest number of regions at 10; Italy has 6; Sweden has 5; the United Kingdom has 4; and the Netherlands has 3; the
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the numbers of such regions, in general terms, are indicative of the relatively even spatial distributional patterns of knowledge-economy city-regions across Western Europe. The cumulative rankings, in general, place Europe’s regions below North America’s US regions and ahead of Eastern Asia’s regions.
