Id941 International Benchmarking & Openness of Cities UCLG, Durban 14 June 2011 Prof. Dr. Urs Müller Direktor BAKBASEL.

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id941 International Benchmarking & Openness of Cities UCLG, Durban 14 June 2011 Prof. Dr. Urs Müller Direktor BAKBASEL

id941 2 What do we want to know? Are we better than … ?

id941 3 Content Why benchmarking? What can be benchmarked? What is your economic performance? What are your location factors? Does openness matter?

id941 4 GDP per capita NoteIn 1'000 US$ (at current prices and exchange rates) SourceBAKBASEL

id941 5 Employment growth NoteIn % p.a. SourceBAKBASEL

id941 6 Hourly productivity NoteIn US$ per hour worked (at current prices and exchange rates) SourceBAKBASEL

id941 7 Economic performance profile of Madrid NotePosition of Madrid within the benchmarking sample (for each indicator, percentiles) Higher values indicate a better performance SourceBAKBASEL

id941 8 Global and continental accessibility NoteIndex (average accessibility of regions 2002 = 100), 2008 SourceBAKBASEL, IVT

id941 9 Tax burden for companies and manpower

id Research for innovation: Quality of universities NoteTotal scores of all Universities in region in the Shanghai Index per 1’000 inhabitants, 2009 SourceBAKBASEL

id Economic attractiveness profile of Madrid NotePosition of Madrid within the benchmarking sample (for each indicator, percentiles) Higher values indicate a better performance SourceBAKBASEL

id 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

id 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

id Do you know how good you are? You better do!