Regional Competitiveness: An Elusive yet Key Concept?

By M. Kitson, Ron Martin, Peter Tyler. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management

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Local And Regional Development (2006, background): “‘Development’ is interpreted as increased income and prosperity through enhanced regional and national competitiveness (Kitson et al. 2004).”
Regional Competitiveness and Territorial Capital: A Conceptual Approach and Empirical Evidence from the European Union (2013, neutral): “, 2004 ; M artin , 2004 ; M artin and S unley , 2006 ).”
Measurement of Lithuanian Regions by Regional Competitiveness Index (2009, positive): “The analysis of the main problems of regional competitiveness measurement (Simanaviciene, et al., 2007, Kitson et al., 2004, de Vet, et al. 2004, Huggins, 2003, Lengyel, 2003) showed, that competitiveness cannot be completely defined by one or several economic and social indicators.”
Perception of competitiveness in the context of sustainable development: Facets of “sustainable competitiveness” (2010, background): “Competitive regions and cities are places where both companies and people want to invest and to locate in (Kitson et al. 2004: 997).”
Rural entrepreneurship or entrepreneurship in the rural – between place and space (2015, background): “Hence, the competitiveness literature has emphasized the need for regions and localities to make themselves attractive to outside investments and global flows of capital, labour and people (Kitson et al., 2004; Bristow, 2010).”
Entrepreneurship and regional competitiveness: The role and progression of policy (2011, background): “This may reflect the fact that despite policy makers everywhere appropriating the term, the notion of regional competitiveness is ‘complex and contentious’ and ‘we are far from a consensus on what is meant by the term’ (Kitson, Martin, and Tyler 2004 , 992).”
Regional resilience: theoretical and empirical perspectives (2010, background): “…of authors emphasis in this issue the contribution that resilience can make to regional adjustment is perhaps best understood when it is related to the innate characteristics of a placesomething on which a competitiveness-based approach may offer only a limited perspective (Kitson et al., 2004).”
Creative destruction and regional productivity growth: evidence from the Dutch manufacturing and services industries (2008, background): “Regional competitiveness is a popular term but hard to define ( Kitson et al. 2004 ).”
Recent research on competitiveness and clusters: what are the implications for regional policy? (2013, background): “These debates start with the general sense that regions are getting more important (OECD, 2007, Kitson et al., 2004) but also that the impact of regional policy is at least questionable, both conceptually and empirically (Glaeser and Gottlieb, 2008; Farole et al., 2011).”
The intensive and extensive margins of trade decomposing exports growth differences across Spanish regions (2010, background): “1 Kitson et al. (2004) provide an interesting discussion about the concept of regional competitiveness and the importance of international trade indicators to measure it. Porter (1990) popularized the use of regional export shares as measure of regional competitiveness. 2 Evenett and Venables (2002)”
The entrepreneurial ladder, gender, and regional development (2012, background): “This approach is consistent with Klapper and Parker (2010) who argue that gender differences in entrepreneurial engagement and performance reflect constraints in the external business environment or differences in voluntary individual choices across genders.”
Cities and Regions Competing in the Global Economy: Knowledge and Local Development Policies (2007, background): “Urban and regional competitiveness is multidimensional, including traditional factors of production, infrastructure, and location as well as economic structure and `softer' factors, such as quality of life and environmental urban amenities (Budd and Hirmis, 2004; Kitson et al, 2004).”
Global investments and regional development trajectories: the missing links (2016, background): “11 evidence on firm heterogeneity has also been acknowledged by the new economic geography (Ottaviano, 2011), casting doubt on the overarching power of the ‘comparative advantage’ concept, strictly reliant on a broad and static sectoral view of gains and losses in the competitive contest (Camagni, 2”
The New Argonauts. Regional Advantage in a Global Economy (2009, background): “That is because its latent character is somewhat of a black box (compare K ITSON et al. , 2004).”