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This unique Handbook examines the impacts on, and responses to, economic geography explicitly from the perspective of the behaviour, mechanics, systems and experiences of different firms in various types of industries. The industry studies approach allows the authors to explain why the economic geography of these different industries exhibits such particular and diverse characteristics.

The chapter reviews the literature on the nature, role and links between R & D, innovation and productivity. The authors examine innovation from the perspective of the resource-based view of the firm, and discuss how non-spatial approaches explain the ways in which the characteristics of knowledge and technological regimes shape the evolution of the firm’s innovative behaviour. The analysis then moves on to set the insights of these non-geographical approaches squarely in the context of economic geography allowing for a discussion on the spatial effects of the prevailing technological regimes on urban and regional economic systems.

The notion of competiveness is not without its detractors. However, it has evolved largely outside of orthodox economics in the engineering and management disciplines, and emerged primarily as a systems type of perspective and approach which is also central to modern analyses of both entrepreneurship and innovation. Over time the concept has become increasingly adopted within mainstream economics and is regarded as having particular relevance in the context of regions and geography. The concept has now become a central pillar of many economic policy narratives within the international arena and also plays an important role in the international policy transfer agenda. This is particularly so in the case of the European Union smart specialization agenda, which although emerging from slightly different origins and emphasizing different priorities and mechanisms still follows many similar or related principles to those highlighted in the competiveness literature. This chapter examines the evolution of the concept of competitiveness and discusses its increasing application with regard to identifying the underlying economic performance of regions and the appropriate and relevant policy settings which might be employed in order to enhance such performance. Its importance in partly influencing and shaping some of the themes of the smart specialization agenda of the European Union Cohesion Policy are discussed.

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Hong Shangqin, Philip McCann and Les Oxley

Handbook Chapter

In Handbook of Industry Studies and Economic Geography

Edited by Frank Giarratani, Geoffrey J.D. Hewings and Philip McCann

Tomokazu Arita, Chie Iguchi and Philip McCann

Monograph Chapter

In Endogenous Regional Development

Edited by Robert Stimson, Roger R. Stough and Peter Nijkamp

Frank Giarratani, Geoffrey J.G. Hewings and Philip McCann

Handbook Chapter

In Handbook of Industry Studies and Economic Geography

Edited by Frank Giarratani, Geoffrey J.D. Hewings and Philip McCann

Edited by Frank Giarratani, Geoffrey J.D. Hewings and Philip McCann

Handbook

Philip McCann and Raquel Ortega-Argilés

Handbook Chapter

In Handbook on the Geographies of Innovation

Edited by Richard Shearmu, Christophe Carrincazeaux and David Doloreux

Philip McCann and Raquel Ortega-Argilés

Handbook Chapter

In Handbook on Cohesion Policy in the EU

Edited by Simona Piattoni and Laura Polverari

Simona Iammarino and Philip McCann

Handbook Chapter

In The Handbook of Evolutionary Economic Geography

Edited by Ron Boschma and Ron Martin

Philip McCann and Frank van Oort

Handbook Chapter

In Handbook of Regional Growth and Development Theories

Edited by Roberta Capello and Peter Nijkamp

Alessandra Faggian and Philip McCann

Handbook Chapter

In Handbook of Regional Growth and Development Theories

Edited by Roberta Capello and Peter Nijkamp

Contemporary Theories and Perspectives on Economic Development

Philip McCann and Raquel Ortega-Argilés

Handbook Chapter

In Handbook of Regions and Competitiveness

Edited by Robert Huggins and Piers Thompson

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