The Belgium Startup Ecosystem is a regional Leader in innovation, ranked at number 23 globally, and shows a positive momentum 1 spots since 2020. Belgium also ranks at number 11 for startups in Western Europe.
There are 9 cities ranked in the top 1,000 in Belgium and the top ranked city in Belgium is Brussels at 72 globally. Brussels is followed by Ghent at 158 and Antwerp at 237. Belgium is an ideal place to locate for Social & Leisure, Marketing & Sales and Health startups. As the most popular industries in the country, there is a sample of 209 Social & Leisure startups in Belgium, 83 Marketing & Sales startups in Belgium and 47 Health startups in Belgium, on the StartupBlink Map. On the StartupBlink Global Startup Ecosystem Map there is a sample of 547 startups in Belgium, 17 accelerators in Belgium, 29 coworking spaces in Belgium, 10 organizations in Belgium and no leaders in Belgium.View top ecosystems:
Brussels, Belgium
Ghent, Belgium
Antwerp, Belgium
Leuven, Belgium
Liege, Belgium
2021 National Rank & Change | City | Global Rank & Change | Total Score | Quantity Score | Quality Score | Business Score |
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1st 0 | 72nd - 8 | 6.502 | 1.13 | 2.07 | 3.31 | |
2nd 0 | 158th + 5 | 3.524 | 0.45 | 0.37 | 2.71 | |
3rd 0 | 237th + 80 | 1.497 | 0.21 | 0.14 | 1.15 | |
4th 0 | 311th + 115 | 0.866 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.67 | |
5th + 2 | 390th + 292 | 0.572 | 0.07 | 0.07 | 0.44 | |
6th 0 | 543rd + 91 | 0.319 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.24 | |
7th - 2 | 667th - 118 | 0.227 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.17 | |
8th + 1 | 701st + 151 | 0.212 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.16 | |
9th - 1 | 847th + 3 | 0.160 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.12 |