ZYen：2024智能金融中心指数报告(SCI 9)（第9期）（英文版）

The Smart Centres Index 9 May 2024 Distributed Futures Smart Centres Index 9 www.longfinance.net www.zyen.com We are pleased to present the ninth edition of the Smart Centres Index (SCI 9). The SCI has been developed by Z/Yen as part of its Long Finance Initiative and the Distributed Futures Programme to track commercial centres’ ability to create, develop, and deploy technology. It aims to help investors, governments, and regulators track the attractiveness of technology centres for new technologies and products by measuring how attuned centres and their regulatory systems are to attracting innovation and growth in Science, Technology, Energy Systems, Machine Learning, Distributed Ledgers, and Fintech. The SCI tracks three dimensions related to innovation and technology in the cities that we rank: • Innovation Support - the support provided by regulatory and other systems to innovation and technology in a centre. • Creative Intensity - the intensity of technology and inn