Europe, here's the map of high technology. How is the hi-tech measured?

If out of curiosity we are interested in understanding where high technology is most widespread in Europe, the levels to be used are two, that is, by intensity or by groups. 

Everyone tells us a different story: on the one hand we discover where the regions are located where high-tech work represents a more - or less - large part of all the existing places. On the other hand, we find the nucleuses that collect a large number of total high tech workers.

 The difference, for example, is the one that passes between the Madrid area and the south-east of Ireland. In both the European Statistical Institute has estimated that just under one worker every ten is employed in a high-tech sector, but between the two passes a not very small difference of about 100 thousand employed in the field. This, of course, expresses a difference not only because high technology matters in one area or another, but also in the overall population that lives in those regions. 

If we enter the continent in search of the areas with the highest density of high tech, we must first move towards the United Kingdom. In fact, the two single regions with the highest percentage of employees in the field are found here, in areas respectively within London and just outside it. Not far from there are the already mentioned south-east Ireland, and still regions that are part of Denmark, Slovakia, Finland and the Czech Republic.

 Among the most populous nations, areas with large numbers of high-tech workers include the Madrid region, while parts of France, Germany and Italy are lower: from 9 to 11% of total employment we spend at 6-7 Rome, Berlin and Paris. The latter area, however, is so populous that even with a lower percentage it still ends up hosting the single largest group of high tech employees in Europe, with an average that in recent years has been around just under 380,000 people in all. 

Just to make a comparison with Italy, although the largest percentage of the total in Rome is the largest group of high-tech Italian is instead in Milan, and people account for just over 200 thousand. In many areas of the Scandinavian countries we find a wide density of this kind of occupation, but these are less populated areas in the complex, and as for absolute numbers naturally also the totals can only be smaller. In general, the capitals of each nation tend to be part of the regions where high-tech work is more common, and this is also the case in Italy, but as in many rules we also find some small exceptions.