REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS, CONCEPTUAL ELEMENTS

Florina Popa

Studies and Scientific Researches. Economics Edition, 2015, issue 22

Abstract: In a general sense, competitiveness is conveyed as the ability of a nation to lay the foundations and ensure an economic, social and political environment capable of sustaining the creation of added value, enabling the positioning of a country within global economy, from the perspective of comparing the performances obtained and the growth potential over time. The paper highlights the importance of increasing competitiveness of regional economy and the perspectives for their development. There are exhibited numerous aspects of the competitiveness concept expressed by definitions, formulated by experts that outline features of the phenomenon, as well as the interaction between knowledge and competitiveness. Finally, there are also shown some methods for measuring regional competitiveness.

Keywords: regional competitiveness; ability; competition; innovation; knowledge; measuring (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F63 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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