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With about 8% of national territory, the Hamburg Metropolitan Region (HMR) is the second largest in Germany. In the first OECD Territorial Review to cover Germany, the HMR is examined under the lens of its competitiveness, innovation, and sustainable urban and regional development. Many metropolitan regions around the world have grown beyond their core city. By growing bigger, they often improve their capacity to attract investment, upgrade their skills base and move up the global value chain. Large metropolitan regions are better equipped than smaller cities to reap agglomeration economies , which typically arise when firms and workers in close proximity share knowledge and become more productive together. Administrative fragmentation can get in the way of agglomeration economies. OECD research shows that the more fragmented a metropolitan region is, the less productive it is. When a metropolitan region encompasses a large number of municipalities and even regions, as in the case of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region that spans more than 1,100 municipalities across four different federal states in Germany, the search for agglomeration economies is all the more complex. Despite the presence of a dynamic port, a diversified range of economic clusters, top-class research facilities, a wealth of cultural, natural and recreational assets, and a generally high level of quality of life, the Hamburg Metropolitan Region (HMR) is losing ground to other comparable OECD metropolitan regions, including within Germany. Although HMR enjoys a relatively high level of GDP per capita and labour productivity, it falls behind other high-productivity OECD metropolitan regions such as Boston (US), Copenhagen (Denmark), or Gothenburg (Sweden)

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