21 February 2025 | Neuss
A total of >4,000 locations in Germany are assessed and weighted according to their importance and economic potential. The new version of the location ranking for Germany, which newest version was published on Friday 21 February 2025, sees many changes in the rankings. This has to do not only with the actual development of the cities, but also with new criteria that have been applied.
1,677 cities rose and 2,333 fell in their rankings, 16 locations were newly included in the new 2025 version. So there has been a lot of movement in DDW's new city ranking for Germany.
This is of course firstly due to the changes in the performance levels themselves - but also to modifications to the underlying scoring model, which is used to measure and compare cities in Germany in terms of their corporate and economic strength and attractiveness. Adjustments were made to the previous version and new data points were included. The impetus for this came from the community itself.
Quote from the DDW website: "The inclusion of "Higher Education Organisations" as a factor is thanks to an impulse from Professor Dr Thomas Baaken from Technology and Innovation Marketing at the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre FH Münster."
Prof Baaken argues: "Higher Education Organisations are of great importance for the economy in a region because they facilitate access to skilled workers for the local economy, provide obvious opportunities for research cooperation and knowledge transfer, often act as nuclei for business start-ups and, last but not least, are themselves an economic factor for the regional economy." DDW Research has therefore identified the 566 locations of the 422 German universities and assigned them a scoring relevance.
A new and relevant impact of the S2BMRC.