Edinburgh's economy

• Edinburgh is the UK's third best business location in terms of satisfaction levels amongst existing companies (NOMIS)
• Edinburgh is the most prosperous city outside London (Scottish Government)
• Only Cardiff outstrips Edinburgh in terms of forecast output growth between 2004-2010 (Cambridge Econometrics)
• Edinburgh ranks ahead of London and Frankfurt in terms of office market strength (Knight Frank/Grubb & Ellis)
• Edinburgh is Europe's 25th richest city and the UK's second after London (Communities and Local Government)
• Almost 60% of the £521m spent on business enterprise research and development in Scotland (2003) was in Edinburgh City Region
• Business tourism is worth around £300m a year to Edinburgh and the Lothians
• The key sectors of Edinburgh City Region are financial services, science and technology, retail, tourism and the public sector.