Interactive Tool to Explore the Index

The landmark publication of EDFx will be a new annual European Digital Entrepreneurship Index. This comprehensive report will provide a ranking of individual European cities’ digital readiness and assess their startup environment. (Depending on data availability and in consultation with the Commission, some indicators on the Index as a whole may look at other subnational areas such as NUTS2 regions). The Index will serve as a key resource to policy makers aiming to encourage web entrepreneurship in their country by - Identifying existing and promising hubs of activity, - Allowing them to benchmark their performance against other European hubs, - Helping them identify which policy areas they should prioritise. The Index will cover all capital cities in the EU as well as a number of other cities showing high levels of web entrepreneurship such as Cambridge, Barcelona, Munich among others. An interactive tool will allow users to interrogate the individual indicators and the scores and data behind them. The development of the interactive tool is to be subcontracted. This is not envisaged as being a large part of the Index but will make it more engaging for users and allow them to gain more detailed insights in an interactive way. The design of the tool and data collection will be conducted by Nesta but a programmer will need to be commissioned to create it. Nesta has extensive experience with commissioning similar sites such as www.startupfactories.eu and www.crowdingin.com. Nesta will contact a number of potential developers to ensure someone is found who can deliver a quality product while also achieving value for money for the European Commission.