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AS FEATURED IN : 2 WWW.SOLIDIANCE.COM Our White Papers represet Soiiace’s atest thikig o what we see as Asia’s most importat usiess tres. Through extesie iteriews a rigorous isights aasis, ourcosutats zoom i o the core issues that hae the most impact o our usiess. Our groureakig ieas hep compaies to geerate the right refectios o what to cosier i Asia’s fast eoig competitie eiromet. ExEcUTIvESUmmARyINNovATIoN ANDThE cITyWhy ThE RANkINg?INSPIRATIoNmEThoDoLogy &mEASUREmENTSWINNERSSINgAPoRE: INNOVATIVE CITY!INNOVATIVESOCIETY? SyDNEy: PIONEERS AT THEBAY mELBoURNE: A SECRET GARDEN hoNg koNg: THE NEED FORREINVENTION AUckLAND: HOBBITS ARE HAPPYTOO Tokyo: SHINE LOST, FOREVER? BANgkok: wATCH THIS PACE! ShANghAI: BUZZING, NOTINNOVATIVE YET mUmBAI: FROMRESILIENCE TOTRANSFORMATION JAkARTA: FAILING IS NOT THEONLY OPTION 0304060810183325354546475354555637394143272931 CONTENTS ThE movIE!coNcLUSIoNSAPPENDIxcoNTRIBUToRSmEDIAPUBLIcATIoNABoUT USoUR oFFIcES 3 INNOVATIVE ASIA PACIFIC CITIES T his stu was coucteto ietif the mostioatie cities withithe Asia Pacific regio to hepiustr paers assess the mostattractie paces where the capat a grow their usiess.It is esige to etermie whether a particuar cit hasuit a effectie ioatioecosstem. We use six mai categories tomeasure each cit’s ee of ioatieess: huma taet,kowege creatio, techoog,societ, goermet, as we asgoa itegratio. These ke criteria are ispire RicharForia’s Creatie Cass & CreatieEcoom, which ietifies thereatioships etwee whata particuar ocatio has tooffer a the amout of taetattracte to that same ocatio.Soiiace ietifie sixteeotae ura ceters i Asia Pacific a icue them ithis stu, a as a resut of our comprehesie assessmeta aasis, the Top 5 mostioatie cities i Asia Pacificare as foows: Sigapore,Se, Meoure, Hog Kog,a Aucka. The Top 3 cities were er cose rake aa “photoshoot” was eeeto aocate the ‘Go mea’to Sigapore. This meas thisrakig is ike to chage i thefuture. As we istiguish the stu’s ke takeawas further, we suggestthat what makes a faoraeioatio haitat is, a propericorporatio of factors acrosscategories: ã Rich aaiaiit of eucatea skifu huma taet,eae iersit a ifeameit ã Kowege creatioprouce the tertiar eucatio istitutes, firms,a goermet ã Proper ee of cit iaiit a the toerace that itssociet possesses towarseiat orms a faiure,aog with their aiit tosustai cuture a aue ã Techoog aacemeta ioatio ecosstemfaciitate thegoermet ã Faorae reguator framework set thegoermet to sustai thecit sstem ã Goa itegratio a thecit’s orietatio towarsthe future iicate a high ee of thecit’s coectiit aeirometa sustaiaiit Executive Summary 4 WWW.SOLIDIANCE.COM I t is that costat ee tostrie, to persist, to e aeto create somethig that wieefit the societ. It is humaature to wat to cotriute tothe growth of a commuit amake a impact, o matter how seemig sma or isigificatit ma e.Jugig from the quick ascetof cities eeopmet urigthe ast two ecaes, it shouthe come as o surprisethat with the right amout of iceties aaiae withi a cit, ioate peope woufi their iche. Ioatioehaces prouctiit aattracts more profit, whicheas to the cit’s ecoomiceeopmet. Furthermore,ioatio itsef is icreasig fou a eiee to e I N T E R V I E W etermiig a cit’s promiececompare to others i terms of goa competitieess. Whea cit is eig cosiere asioatie, it is usua a giethat its citizes wi aso fi theest i eerthig - prouctieeiromet, great quait of ife, which wi the ea to a surge of creatiit a huma taet. With these factors i mi, weca safe assume that for aioatie mi to costat e ispire a stimuate,a ecouragig eirometis paramout. It takes oeocatio to prouce a ig impact,somethig that we hae come toquick uersta urig theprocess of this stu. INNOVATIONAND THE CITY The reason why innovation has becomesuch an integral part of our daily livesis plain to see: human beings in generalare equipped with that resonant needto always be one step ahead.