Creating a UK Competitiveness Index: Regional and Local Benchmarking

By Robert Huggins. 2003

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management

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Cities and Regions Competing in the Global Economy: Knowledge and Local Development Policies (2007, background): “Rankings and analyses of data at the regional scale also have recently begun in the UK (Huggins, 2003).”
Measurement of Lithuanian Regions by Regional Competitiveness Index (2009, unknown): “Considering the model of “Regional Diamond” and the fact that factors which condition development of clusters are measured in a qualitative aspect, RCI is put in a linear equation: RCI = (w1) CF +(w2) DC + (w3) FC (1) CF = (w4) HR +(w5) PhI + (w6) KnR + (w7) C (2) DC = (w8) SSD +(w9) LCD+ (w10) ESSD”
Perception of competitiveness in the context of sustainable development: Facets of “sustainable competitiveness” (2010, background): “Huggins (2003) has introduced “Three-factor model“ for measuring local and regional competitiveness and has constructed the UK Index of Competitiveness.”
Entrepreneurship and regional competitiveness: The role and progression of policy (2011, background): “…Divide’, whereby regions in the southern half of the nation, in particular London, South East England and Eastern England, are the nation’s core economic drivers, while more northern regions suffer from higher unemployment rates and lower income levels (Huggins 2003; Huggins and Izushi 2008).”
The Economic and Innovation Contribution of Universities: A Regional Perspective (2009, background): “Based on the assumption that regional competitiveness is largely a function of regional innovation levels (Porter, 1990; Huggins, 2003; Huggins and Izushi, 2007), it is possible to establish a number of metrics measuring the relative contribution of HEIs to the economic and innovation performance…”
Marketing innovation: A consequence of competitiveness (2016, background): “Brand competitiveness was indicated by native knowledge (CBNK) (Huggins, 2003; Simmie, 2003; Windrum & Tomlinson, 1999), local infrastructure (CBLI) (Timmor, Rabino, & Zif, 2009), local relationship (CBLR) (Simmie, 2004), local support (CBLS) (Gabrielsson, 2005), and local capabilities (CBLC) (Leste”
Evaluating financial performance in local government: maximizing the benchmarking value (2009, methodology): “The utility of applying a PM system has been made apparent in many studies; among other features, it enables better control of the budgetary process (Jordan and Hackbart, 1999; Kluvers, 2001), identifying those aspects of the organization found to be inefficient (Berman and Wang, 2000), and improvin”
Noncompensatory/nonlinear composite indicators for ranking countries: a defensible setting (2009, unknown): “…or academic performance (see Cox et al., 1992; Cribari-Neto et al., 1999; Färe et al., 1994; Forni et al., 2001; Griliches, 1990; Grupp and Mogee, 2004; Huggins, 2003;Lovell et al., 1995;Munda, 2005;Nardo et al., 2005; Saisana and Tarantola, 2002 and Wilson and Jones, 2002, among others).”
Universities and open innovation: the determinants of network centrality (2019, background): “These universities often play an important role in a region’s innovation culture, for example Cambridge University and the biotechnology and IT clusters in the local area (Cooke 2002; Cooke and Huggins 2003; Hughes and Kitson 2012) and Stanford University within Silicon Valley (Saxenian 1994).”