REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS. FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE. LITERATURE REVIEW
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In the last decades, the competitiveness term has been widely used, thou sometimes, in an exaggerated way. In essence, the questions and problems that lie at the basis of the competitiveness concept are those that theoretical economist and decision factors have tried to approach for hundreds of year: a better understanding of the key elements involved in the process of improving economic welfare and wealth distribution. The present paper focuses on regional competitiveness from the perspective of the conceptual framework for defining, understanding and measuring it, but also of the practical models used in the process of analyzing and measuring competitiveness at global level. The initial hypothesis is that the competitiveness concept is a difficult term that often creates confusions, especially the competitiveness asserted at regional level.
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