Explaining regional economic performance: the role of competitiveness, specialization and capabilities
2017
Abstrakt
How should differences in regional economic performance be explained? This chapter examines the different approaches to this question, including their empirical underpinnings, which have developed in the scholarly literature with particular emphasis on identifying issues that continue to be of central importance today. It may be noted, however, that as far as theories and perspectives are concerned, the research area under scrutiny here is a highly porous one.
In fact, the theoretical perspectives guiding researchers in this area do in most cases apply to other spatial levels as well.