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The competitiveness puzzle: Interpretations, misunderstandings, and conceptual reorientations towards integrated competitiveness policy approaches

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Title The competitiveness puzzle: Interpretations, misunderstandings, and conceptual reorientations towards integrated competitiveness policy approaches
 
Creator VLADOS, Charis;

Department of Economics, Democritus University of Thrace, Komotini, Greece

 

 


CHATZINIKOLAOU, Dimos; Department of Economics, Democritus University of Thrace, Komotini, Greece. +302531039824
 
Subject Competitiveness; Micro-meso-macro analysis; Growth poles; Industrial districts; Innovation environment; Competitiveness web; Co-opetitiveness pole.
L52; Β50.
 
Description Abstract. Competitiveness is a field of discord and controversies among economists from the very first moment it appeared in the theory and practice of economic policy. This article aims to identify how the concept of competitiveness evolves and find out possible points of convergence, divergence, and synthesis in contemporary scientific dialogue. It first presents older and recent approaches to competitiveness by identifying potential conceptual enrichments and reorientations at the meso-level of analysis. It finds that the rediscovery and deepening into the meso-economic approaches, which connect the micro and macro-economic levels of analysis dynamically, have the potential to offer new analytical content and interpretive potential on competitiveness. Growth poles, industrial districts, and innovation environments constitute such meso-level approaches. In conclusion, we propose a multilevel synthesis of competitiveness and an integrated form of industrial policy in the scheme of “competitiveness web” and “co-opetitiveness pole.”Keywords. Competitiveness, Micro-meso-macro analysis, Growth poles, Industrial districts, Innovation environment, Competitiveness web, Co-opetitiveness pole.JEL. L52, Β50.
 
Publisher Journal of Economics Bibliography
 
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Date 2020-04-21
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JEB/article/view/2020
10.1453/jeb.v7i1.2020
 
Source Journal of Economics Bibliography; Vol 7, No 1 (2020): March; 1-22
2149-2387
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JEB/article/view/2020/2053
http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JEB/article/downloadSuppFile/2020/1050
 
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