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...

Increasing localisation represents one of the most spectacular processes of the economies that develop and transform as a result of globalisation processes: while the (relative) importance of national economies is decreasing, the economic role of regions and cities seems to grow. Global competition has intensified also in space, especially with the growing importance of the knowledge-based econ...

abstract:over the past decade the economies of east asia and apec more generally have been increasinglyopening up their markets, and in the process have achieved significant gains in exports and economicgrowth. in conjunction with this increased economic integration, there has been increased recognitionby regional governments of the potential for a substantial increase in the participation by s...

Competitiveness is divided into two broad categories named as macroeconomic and microeconomic competitiveness. Microeconomic competitiveness indicators have a direct impact on company productivity within which sate of cluster development is the most important pillar of microeconomic competitiveness that are introduced by Michael Porter and it's framework as Diamond Model. The Diamond reveals al...

Regional Competitiveness is often emphasized on the comparative advantage of such region in a particular country. A competitive region is one that attracts and maintains achieved companies, while improving inhabitats’ standard of living. Skilled workforces, regional resources and investments are often drawn to a competitive region. Storper (1997) defined regional competitiveness as “...the abil...

The sports industry competitiveness is systemly analyzed international competitiveness theory. The research on the principal influencing factors as well as evaluation principles of present regional sports industry competitiveness is mainly discussed and the comprehensive evaluation model of regional sports industry competitiveness is set up in this paper. With the combination of logic analysis ...