A city competitiveness index is a set of institutions, policies, and factors that determine the level of productivity of a city, conditions of public institutions, and technical conditions. As shown in the dashboard diagram, many common factors contribute to making cities competitive: quality of urban infrastructure, communications, and public services, business rivalry and cooperation, access to natural resources and skills, location in relation to markets, risk management, social capital, and quality of life. As shown in the diagram, developed cities use the information and communications technology to optimize annual income, floating population, average pricing of commercial houses, and others. A free customizable city competitiveness dashboard template is provided to download and share among the peers.
