Competitiveness, Localised Learning and Regional Development: Specialization and Prosperity in Small Open Economies

摘要: Drawing on a rich literature and case study material from selected industries, elaborating key concepts such as firms competencies, industries industrial systems, competitiveness 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 particular types of economic activity, why patterns specialization, once place tend be so tremendously durable? How can high-cost regions general small industrialized countries sustain prosperity an increasingly globally integrated world This points the way dilemma created by recent theory policy: it possible for which are not destined leading high-tech powers take advantage current conjuncture open-markets.