G H E N T
Ghent is a Flemish knowledge city: a large university, biotech firms and a historic craft centre share one canal core.Ghent is a Flemish knowledge city: a large university, biotech and digital firms, and a historic craft centre share a canal core that still closes for a market.

E C O N O M I C D E N S I T Y
Ghent packs a research university, a biotech-and-digital floor and a dense historic-services core into one walkable Flemish city.
University + biotech
anchor the canal desk
Sources: Statbel / City of Ghent economic briefings.
Younger and more research-shaped than Antwerp. The city still has a closing time.The labour market is younger and more research-shaped than Antwerp’s. International researchers are ordinary; the city still has a closing time.
C I T Y P O R T R A I T
Seminar Discipline
Ghent scores the intern who can summarise a paper and still write a useful note for a municipal or biotech desk.

Faculty And Guild
Labs and historic craft sit on one canal map. Context is a year, not a quarter.

C I T Y P O R T R A I T


Faculty And Guild
Labs and historic craft sit on one canal map. Context is a year, not a quarter.
Seminar Discipline
Ghent scores the intern who can summarise a paper and still write a useful note for a municipal or biotech desk.