In this classification, the city is the most suitable for entrepreneurship is one that offers many university courses, has a dynamic labour market is characterised by many start-up companies, is not handicapped by a salary way too high, is a building industry and construction active and hosts a high number of high tech companies.

Toulouse, Nantes and Bordeaux on the podium

Toulouse, Nantes and Bordeaux are a beautiful podium, in line with the demographic developments of the past few years. Montpellier, Rennes and Lyon heels, closely followed by Angers, Aix-Marseille and Toulon.

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Apart from Angers, the performance of which deserves to be highlighted, the top 100 cities where it is good to undertake enshrines the domination of large cities, often located not far from the sea, which combine the advantages. There are the poles of competitiveness really active, or that we observe the share of companies working in the high tech sectors, these metropolis have results a few notches above other cities.

The 10 indicators in the ranking “I do”

This survey of the Express gate on the 100 metropolitan areas of the province most densely populated. For comparison, we have retained the notion of the “urban area” of the Insee, that is to say, the city-centre and all the common that depend on them, even if they are distant. It is thus that one measure better the extent of the basin of life.

The 35 indicators of the survey have all been collected from an official source and then were divided into three themes : “I saw”, “I work” and “I do”.

For each of them, a rank has been assigned to the cities according to their results. As for the bachelor, all the indicators have been assigned a weighting factor according to their importance, to lead to the rankings of the thematic.

For classification, “I do”:

• 2 relate to employment and wages: the evolution of the number of jobs between 2005 and 2015 (by area of employment, Insee, coef (5) and the average wage (Bank of France, 2016, coef 4).

• 3 affecting business creation: the rate of business creation in 2016 (Insee, coef 4) as well as the evolution 2016/2015 creations and business failures (Agence France-Contractors, coef 2, and 3).

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• 5 are interested in the economic attractiveness: the number of university courses in 2015-2016 (identified by the database of The Student, coef 5); the number of poles of competitiveness in 2017 (government site, coef 5); the proportion of companies in the high tech sectors in 2015 (Acoss, coef 5); the surfaces of local started between 2014 and 2017 in m2 for 1 000 inhabitants (Ministry of Housing, coef 2) and hotel capacity (number of beds in the urban area to the 1/1/2017, Insee, coef 2).