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Competitive Scottish Cities?
Placing Scotland's cities in the UK and European context

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1. See Technical Annex for details
2. Gross Value Added (GVA) measures the contribution to the economy of each individual producer, industry or sector in the United Kingdom. Approximate GVA represents the income generated by businesses out of which is paid wages and salaries, the cost of capital investment and financial charges, before arriving at a figure for profit. It includes taxes on production (eg business rates), net of subsidies but excludes subsidies and taxes on products (eg VAT and excise duty). GVA + taxes on products - subsidies on products = GDP.
3. Office of Science and Technology SET Statistics http://www.ost.gov.uk/setstats/4/t4_10.htm
4. The applicable amount depends on the number of people in the claimant's family, and their circumstances. It is made up of a personal allowance, certain premiums to which the claimant may be entitled and an element for housing costs in some cases.
5. Household numbers have been taken from the 2001 Census, this is a crude but consistent denominator which enables comparisons between places to be made.
6. European Innovation Scoreboard 2003 Technical paper No. 3. EU Regions
7. Storper, M. (1997) The Regional World: Territorial Development in a Global Economy New York: Guilford Press
8. South East England Development Agency Robert Huggins Associates (2001) Global Index of Regional Knowledge Economies: Benchmarking South East England
9. One North East, WDA Barclays (2002) Competing With The World: World Best Practice in Regional Development
10. Robert Huggins Associates (2002) The State of Urban Britain
11. Cheshire, P (1997) Economic Indicators for European Cities and Regions: Why boundaries matter
12. GLA Economics (2004) Greater London Authority Working Paper 9: Measuring and Comparing World Cities
13. See www.aci-europe.org
14. See www.oecd.org/dataoecd/7/2/1962350.pdf
15. See www.statistics.gov.uk/articles/economic_trends/international_comparisons_of_productivity_update.pdf
16. Gross Value Added (GVA) measures the contribution to the economy of each individual producer, industry or sector in the United Kingdom. Approximate GVA represents the income generated by businesses out of which is paid wages and salaries, the cost of capital investment and financial charges, before arriving at a figure for profit. It includes taxes on production (eg business rates), net of subsidies but excludes subsidies and taxes on products (eg VAT and excise duty). GVA + taxes on products - subsidies on products = GDP.

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