{"id":27578,"date":"2021-08-31T12:59:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T09:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/?p=27578"},"modified":"2021-08-31T13:01:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T10:01:47","slug":"sofia-climbs-up-in-technology-cities-of-the-future-2021-report-by-fdi-magazine-and-tnw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/sofia-climbs-up-in-technology-cities-of-the-future-2021-report-by-fdi-magazine-and-tnw\/","title":{"rendered":"Sofia Climbs up in Technology Cities of the Future 2021 Report by fDi Magazine and TNW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sofia is included in the second edition of &#8220;Technology Cities of the Future 2021&#8221; ranking by fDi Magazine and TNW and climbs up one position higher than the pilot edition from June last year.<strong> The Bulgarian capital now ranks 19th in the overall ranking and ahead of cities such as Cambridge, Tallinn, Copenhagen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The capital is also improving its position in the following categories<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">\u201cCost Effectiveness\u201d, where it climbs up two places up to 5th place<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">\u00a0It is also hits the Top 10 for \u201cFDI Performance\u201d &#8211; a category in which last year the capital was not present<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-27772\" src=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/sofia-fdi-magazine-en.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/sofia-fdi-magazine-en.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/sofia-fdi-magazine-en-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/sofia-fdi-magazine-en-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/sofia-fdi-magazine-en-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/sofia-fdi-magazine-en-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/sofia-fdi-magazine-en-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/sofia-fdi-magazine-en-146x146.jpg 146w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/sofia-fdi-magazine-en-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/sofia-fdi-magazine-en-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/sofia-fdi-magazine-en-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/sofia-fdi-magazine-en-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/sofia-fdi-magazine-en-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/sofia-fdi-magazine-en-800x800.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>In addition, Sofia retains the 17th position for &#8220;FDI Strategy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For this year&#8217;s edition of the ranking, data was collected and analysed for 76 locations across 31 European countries under five categories<\/strong>: Cost Effectiveness, Economic Potential, FDI Performance, Innovation and Attractiveness, and Startup Environment. The ranking for &#8220;DFI Strategy&#8221; occupies a separate part in the report of fDi Magazine and TNW.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Technology cities of the future&#8221; marks the achievements of those European cities with the best environment for startups and technology and innovation investment.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the economic challenges the world has been facing during the past year, London, Paris and Dublin retain their top position as Europe&#8217;s best tech cities. Other major technology centers such as Berlin, Madrid and Stockholm are making a big leap, several positions ahead of the previous survey, according to the Report.<\/p>\n<p>The full document &#8220;Technology Cities of the Future 2021&#8221; is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fdiintelligence.com\/article\/80076\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sofia is included in the second edition of &#8220;Technology Cities of the Future 2021&#8221; ranking by fDi Magazine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":27770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}