THE FASTEST-GROWING COMPANIES IN EUROPE
THE SECOND ANNUAL Inc. 5000 Europe list—which recognizes the private companies with the fastest growing revenues over three years—shows how entrepreneurship continues to spread from the established likes of England, Sweden, and Germany to next-generation economic players like Latvia, Lithuania, and Hungary. The new founders on the Continent are “young, digital, hungry, self-confident, and smart,” says Jacqueline Fendt, scientific chair of entrepreneurship at ESCP Europe Business School. Incubator and accelerator programs continue to ramp up and technical schools produce thousands of engineers each year—and while all that is encouraging, so is the strength in manufacturing and construction, the sectors that placed the most companies on the current 5000. NUMBER OF COMPANIES PER COUNTRY SWEDEN 554 UNITED KINGDOM 538 FRANCE 451 SPAIN 387 ROMANIA 333 FINLAND 324 HUNGARY 280 SLOVAKIA 216 NORWAY 204 PORTUGAL 203 RUSSIAN FEDERATION 190 LITHUANIA 169 LATVIA 161 BULGARIA 147 ITALY 131 CZECH REPUBLIC…