Industrial Enlargement and Competitiveness Index

Localized Learning and Industrial Competitiveness

This paper attempts to place regional development within the context of modern resource base theory. Firms do not locate or relocate in order to make use of ubiquities, but to utilise appropriate differences in regional capabilities, and the paper discusses the nature of such capabilities in enhancing or abating the competitiveness of firms, emphasising the crucial role of collective learning a...

Industrial Policy for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development

The point of departure of this paper is the hypothesis that we are in the midst of a change in the techno-economic paradigm. What we perceive as new challenges in a globalized world economy are in fact symptoms of the search for a new paradigm. There is some probability that a key feature of a new paradigm will be ecological sustainability. Therefore, a policy that tries to shape the structures...

Industrial Competitiveness and American National Security

INDUSTRIAL COMPETITIVENESS: The Challenge for Pakistan

* We are grateful to Manuel Albaladejo and Jinkang Zhang for their help with collecting and processing data. Peter Brimble provided material on Thailand.

Impacts of Information Technologyon Taiwan's Industrial Structure and Competitiveness

The Industrial Revolution began in the last half of eighteenth century in the United Kingdom where the steam engine and other mechanical innovations dramatically increased industrial output and drastically change social systems. The second wave of industrialization came with mass production methods represented especially by the electrical and automotive industry at the beginning of the twentiet...