nations and regions in competition ?

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nations and regions in competition ?

• michael peneder
• http//www.wifo.ac.at/Michael.Peneder
• 25th conference of the six countries programme
  stockholm, 15.-16. 01. 2001

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based upon..

• Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, january, 2001.
• table of contents
• entrepreneurial competition (c)
• the organization of knowledge (t)
• intangible investments human resources (e)
• competitive performance of European industry (e)
• sectoral specialisation and industrial location
  (t)
• competitiveness policy (c)
• c..conceptual t..theoretical,
• e..empirical

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outline

• locations in competition ?
• intangibles and competitive performance
• three new taxonomies
• patterns of European specialisation
• the Austrian technology gap
• the policy challenge a systemic view
• competitiveness policy
• the policy prism
• competing levels of policy ?

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locations in competition?

• dangerous obsession if taken literally
  applicable only in a very limited sense to
• inflow of foreign direct investments
• agglomeration economies
• more meaningful if sports-like contest of
  governments for superior performance

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three new taxonomies

• characteristic features
• analytically including intangibles as sources of
  entrepreneurial discovery
• technically statistical cluster techniques
• practical point application to NACE rev.1
• making intangibles more tangible to
  international comparative analysis

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european specialisation (i)
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european specialisation (ii)
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austrian technology gap
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competitiveness policy

• definition public activities that enable its
  entrepreneurs to strengthen their performance on
  competitive markets
• traditional welfare arguments is often deceptive
  and neglectful of practical implications, ...
• policies can alternatively be legitimated from
  an evolutionary perspective

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evolutionary change
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the policy prism
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stylized industry life cycles

• emergence of a novel business
• rtd and start up policies liberalisation
• accumulation race
• complementary institutions education training
  local clusters / global networks
• phase of intense selection
• economic integration competition policies

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competing levels of policy?

• very stylized manifold interdependencies
• typical priorities for (supra-)national level
• fair rules of selection economic integration,
  harmonisation, liberalisation competition
  policy
• typical priorities for local regional levels
• capacity to learn and innovate education
  training complementary institutions etc.
• typical overlap
• all kinds of networking activities RD
  co-operation, infrastructure policies, etc.