Earlier this year, the Financial Times — with its research partner Statista and its colleagues at start-up media brand Sifted — published its third ranking of the best support schemes for new businesses across Europe.

It featured 150 hubs across Europe and was based principally on assessments of incubator and accelerator schemes by alumni who had participated in them, as well as the recommendations of investors and entrepreneurs, and the financial performance of the most successful start-ups they backed.

Ranking: Europe’s Leading Start-up Hubs

Click here to view this year’s ranking of top business incubator and accelerator programmes

We are now starting work on a fourth edition of the start-up hubs ranking — and we need your help.