Regional Competitiveness: A Structural-Based Topic Analysis on Recent Literature

Abstract The concept of Regional Competitiveness (RC), in the last years, had a considerable influence on development strategies and policies focused sub-national areas from an economic social perspective. In particular, RC attracted substantial attention policymakers due to possibility evaluating comparing different territories without any established political or conceptual framework. Conversely, scholars have long debated meaningfulness territorial competitiveness itself and, case, which dimensions be included. This study reviewed most recent scientific literature concerning with bibliometric approach based topic modelling. use textual-based statistical offered interesting insight into research domain. We highlighted topics discussed by scholars, showing patterns emerging across years publication types, marked differences between vocabulary used authors coming EU non-EU countries. Finally, comparison issues analysis defined tried link two standpoints followed institutions academia more comprehensive