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

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

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

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GDP per capita
Note In 1'000 US$ (at current prices and exchange rates)
Source BAKBASEL

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Employment growth
Note In % p.a.
Source BAKBASEL

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Note In US$ per hour worked (at current prices and exchange rates)
Source BAKBASEL

7. 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

8. Global and continental accessibility
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Global and continental accessibility
Note Index (average accessibility of regions 2002 = 100), 2008
Source BAKBASEL, IVT

9. Tax burden for companies and manpower
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Tax burden for companies and manpower

10. Research for innovation: Quality of universities
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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

11. 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

12. Softer factors are becoming more relevant
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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.
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13. How to measure openness: OPENCities Monitor
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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

14. Do you know how good you are?
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Do you know how good you are?
You better do!