Bristol is now the best city in the 海角视频 outside London for start-ups, a new global report has found.
The South West city knocked Manchester off the top spot into third place in the Start-Up Ecosystem Rankings 2020 - a report looking at 1,000 cities in 100 countries.
Meanwhile, Brighton, Edinburgh and Glasgow were ranked the 海角视频's fourth, fifth and sixth-best cities for starting a business.
The data was published by research centre Startup Blink and took into account a geographic database of tens of thousands of start-ups, accelerators, and co-working spaces using an algorithm developed over five years.
Globally, Bristol jumped 57 places to be named 68th best in the world, while Manchester dropped 28 places to 79.
Unsurprisingly, London took the top spot in Britain and ranked third in the world. The capital was the only city in the top five globally not in the US.
Britain as a whole was ranked the second-best place worldwide - behind the US - for start-ups.
Eli David, chief executive of Startup Blink, said: “We run small and flexible businesses, and we can pivot much faster than established companies.
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“Each and every one of us should look at how reality has changed and, instead of hoping it will go back to ‘normal’ adjust our business model for the new situation.
“The established companies are winning in the normal times, but we should be at our best in an environment of massive change.”
He added: “Now is exactly our time to win. Opportunities are now opening up to transform every industry at a rate rarely seen before.
“If we remain open- minded enough to identify them, and fast enough to capture them, we will make it. Or at least have fun trying.”
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1. London
2. Bristol
3. Manchester
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