Building competitive regions : strategies and governance /

In recent years, the main focus of territorial policy has been on sustaining growth, not only to address relative decline, but also to make regions more competitive. Putting this in practice is complicated because different regions have different characteristics (urban, intermediate, industrial, rur...

• Corporate Author: Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Paris : OECD, c2005
• Subjects: DESARROLLO ECONOMICO; ECONOMIA REGIONAL; COMPETENCIA; ECONOMIA DEL ESPACIO; ECONOMIA DEL TERRITORIO

Table of Contents:

• Executive summery
• Pt. 1. Strategies: 1. Competitiveness in a regional context
• 2. Competitive firms: policies to generate innovation and knowledge
• 3. Competitive regions: policies for the wider business environments
• Notes
• Pt. 2. Governance: 4. Coordination between the different levels of government: tranfers, contracting practices and incentives
• 5. Horizontal co-ordination
• 6. New actors in economic development strategies
• 7. Common issues in co-operation governance
• Notes
• Bibliography
• List of boxes
• List of tables
• List of figures.