International Benchmarking & Openness of Cities id941 International Benchmarking & Openness of Cities UCLG, Durban 14 June 2011 Prof. Dr. Urs Müller Direktor BAKBASEL
id941 What do we want to know? Are we better than … ?
Content Why benchmarking? What can be benchmarked? id941 Content Why benchmarking? What can be benchmarked? What is your economic performance? What are your location factors? Does openness matter?
id941 GDP per capita Note In 1'000 US$ (at current prices and exchange rates) Source BAKBASEL
id941 Employment growth Note In % p.a. Source BAKBASEL
Hourly productivity id941 Note In US$ per hour worked (at current prices and exchange rates) Source BAKBASEL
Economic performance profile of Madrid Note Position of Madrid within the benchmarking sample (for each indicator, percentiles) Higher values indicate a better performance Source BAKBASEL
Global and continental accessibility id941 Global and continental accessibility Note Index (average accessibility of regions 2002 = 100), 2008 Source BAKBASEL, IVT
Tax burden for companies and manpower id941 Tax burden for companies and manpower
Research for innovation: Quality of universities id941 Research for innovation: Quality of universities Note Total scores of all Universities in region in the Shanghai Index per 1’000 inhabitants, 2009 Source BAKBASEL
Economic attractiveness profile of Madrid Note Position of Madrid within the benchmarking sample (for each indicator, percentiles) Higher values indicate a better performance Source BAKBASEL
Softer factors are becoming more relevant id941 Softer factors are becoming more relevant Quality of Living sum of all factors making life more or less convenient Diversity fact, that a city has people with different nationality, origin, language or religion/belief Openness capacity to attract international populations and to enable them to contribute to the future success of the city Interculturality approach to integration in cities with culturally diverse populations, encouraging greater mixing and interaction between diverse groups in the public spaces. … and more
How to measure openness: OPENCities Monitor id941 How to measure openness: OPENCities Monitor Values above/below 100 indicate that the performance of Cape Town in an area is better/worse than the sample average. Cape Town is above the average in the following areas: Migration Education Cape Town performs particularly lower than the average in: Barriers of entry Infrastructure results for Cape Town results for selected cities sample
Do you know how good you are? id941 Do you know how good you are? You better do!