A Dual-Track Panel of Global Urban Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, 2022–2026, with Cross-Source Validation Layers (v1.0)

A validated dual-track panel: complete StartupBlink GSEI Top-100 city tables (2022–2024, parsed from official report PDFs), full city leaderboards (1,473 cities in 2025; 1,556 in 2026, collected 29 July 2026), Startup Genome GSER 2025 factor scores (41 top + 96 emerging ecosystems), GUCR city competitiveness (960), Oxford Economics GCI (972), and a canonical city×country mapping table (341 entries). Includes a reversible cleaning log (C0), validation layers (B1–B10), data dictionary (C2), and source/gap register (C1). All raw records unchanged; every validation statistic reproducible from the archived scripts. Licence notes attached per record; population gaps registered, not imputed.