Quality and Regional Competitiveness

Regional Competitiveness Exploring Regional Specializations in Turkey’s Manufacturing Industry

The focus of the study is to explore regional specializations by focusing on regional key industries in Turkey. Turkey has seven geographical regions which are typically different with respect to economic development. The paper aims to identify key industries in each region which could further be explored to specify regional industry clusters. Clusters are interconnected enterprises and institu...

Regional Competitiveness : An Elusive yet Key Concept ?

INTRODUCTION established a European Council of Competitiveness, and it undertook to produce a regular Competitiveness There is now widespread agreement that we are wit-Report on the performance of the economy of the nessing the 'resurgence' of regions as key loci in the European Union (the most recent being the seventh, organization and governance of economic growth and for 2003). In the Europe...

Distributed System Approach to Experiment Regional Competitiveness

This paper highlights a work under development on a regional competitiveness project. We report on a multi-lateral, multi-scale perspective for building cooperative relationships that enhance competitiveness Regionally. The approach mimics a System of Systems methodology whereby entity relationships are captured and defined along several dimensions involving multiple constituents and multiple d...

Transit Facilitation for Regional Economic Integration and Competitiveness

Logistics-Intensive Clusters: Global Competitiveness and Regional Growth

Logistics intensive clusters are agglomerations of several types of firms and operations: (1) firms providing logistics services, such as 3PLs, transportation, warehousing and forwarders, (2) the logistics operations of industrial firms, such as the distribution operations of retailers, manufacturers (in many cases after-market parts) and distributors and (3) the operations of companies for who...