Competitiveness, Localised Learning and Regional Development
Title | Competitiveness, Localised Learning and Regional Development PDF eBook |
Author | Heikki Eskelinen |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2002-03-11 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1134734832 |
Drawing on a rich literature and case study material from selected industries, and elaborating on key concepts such as firms and competencies, industries and industrial systems, and competitiveness and prosperity, this book sets out to answer three broad research questions: * What is competition about in today's economy? * Why do geographical areas (local milieus, cities, regions, countries) specialize in particular types of economic activity, and why do patterns of specialization, once in place tend to be so tremendously durable? * How can high-cost regions in general and small industrialized countries in particular sustain competitiveness and prosperity in an increasingly globally integrated world economy? This book points the way out of a dilemma created by recent industrial theory and policy: is it possible for countries which are not destined to be leading high-tech powers to take advantage of the current conjuncture of increasingly open-markets.
Competitiveness, Localised Learning and Regional Development
Title | Competitiveness, Localised Learning and Regional Development PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Maskell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Competition |
ISBN |
Localised Learning and Industrial Competitiveness
Title | Localised Learning and Industrial Competitiveness PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Maskell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Competition |
ISBN |
Regional Competitiveness, Localised Learning, and Policy
Title | Regional Competitiveness, Localised Learning, and Policy PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Lorenzen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 29 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9788778690494 |
Handbook of Regions and Competitiveness
Title | Handbook of Regions and Competitiveness PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Huggins |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 592 |
Release | 2017-03-31 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1783475013 |
The aim of this Handbook is to take stock of regional competitiveness and complementary concepts as a means of presenting a state-of-the-art discussion of the contemporary theories, perspectives and empirical explanations that help make sense of the determinants of uneven development across regions. Drawing on an international field of leading scholars, the book is assembled and organized so that readers can first learn about the theoretical underpinnings of regional competitiveness and development theory, before moving on to deeper discussions of key factors and principal elements, the emergence of allied concepts, empirical applications, and the policy context.
Regional Competitiveness
Title | Regional Competitiveness PDF eBook |
Author | Ron Martin |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2012-11-12 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1136012540 |
There is now a wide spread interest in regions as a key focus in the organization and governance of economic growth and wealth creation. This important book considers the factors that influence and shape the competitive performance of regions. This is not just an issue of academic interest and debate, but also of increasing policy deliberation and action. However, as the readings in this book make clear, the very idea of regional competitiveness is itself complex and contentious. Many academics and policy makers have used the concept without fully considering what is meant by the term and how it can be measured. Policy formulation has tended to rush ahead of understanding and analysis, and the purpose of this book is to close this important gap in understanding. This book was previously published as a special issue of Regional Studies.
Local and Regional Development
Title | Local and Regional Development PDF eBook |
Author | Andy Pike |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 2016-07-15 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1317664159 |
Actors and institutions in localities and regions across the world are seeking prosperity and well-being amidst tumultuous and disruptive shifts and transitions generated by: an increasingly globalised, knowledge-intensive capitalism; global financial instability, volatility and crisis; concerns about economic, social and ecological sustainability, climate change and resource shortages; new multi-actor and multi-level systems of government and governance and a re-ordering of the international political economy; state austerity and retrenchment; and, new and reformed approaches to intervention, policy and institutions for local and regional development. Local and Regional Development provides an accessible, critical and integrated examination of local and regional development theory, institutions and policy in this changing context. Amidst its rising importance, the book addresses the fundamental issues of ‘what kind of local and regional development and for whom?’, its purposes, principles and values, frameworks of understanding, approaches and interventions, and integrated approaches to local and regional development throughout the world. The approach provides a theoretically informed, critical analysis of contemporary local and regional development in an international and multi-disciplinary context, grounded in concrete empirical analysis from experiences in the global North and South. It concludes by identifying what might constitute holistic, inclusive, progressive and sustainable local and regional development, and reflecting upon its limits and political renewal.