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Regional competitiveness and economic growth: the evolution of explanatory models

In: Handbook of Regions and Competitiveness

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  • Richard Harris

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This chapter presents an overview of various models of regional growth that have appeared in the literature in the last 40 years. It considers the past, and therefore supply-side models such as the standard neoclassical, juxtaposed against essentially demand-side approaches such as the export-base and cumulative causation models (as integrated into the Kaldorian approach); before moving on to the present and more recent versions of the neoclassical model involving spatial weights and ‘convergence clubs’, as well as New Economic Geography core_periphery models, and the ‘innovation systems’ approach. A key feature of the more recent literature is an attempt to explicitly include spatial factors into the model, and thus there is a renewed emphasis on agglomeration economies and spillovers. The discussion of ‘present’ and ‘future’ approaches to regional growth overlaps with the current emphasis in the literature on the importance of more intangible factors such as the role of knowledge and its influence on growth. Lastly, there is a discussion of the greater emphasis that needs to be placed at the micro level when considering what drives growth, and thus factors such as inter alia firm heterogeneity, entrepreneurship and absorptive capacity. Recent micro-level evidence is also presented and related to the earlier discussion of the various models of regional growth.

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  • Richard Harris, 2017. "Regional competitiveness and economic growth: the evolution of explanatory models," Chapters, in: Robert Huggins & Piers Thompson (ed.), Handbook of Regions and Competitiveness, chapter 4, pages 80-116, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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    1. Peter Mayerhofer, 2022. "Vorarlbergs Wirtschaft im europäischen Konkurrenzumfeld. Bericht zur internationalen Wettbewerbsfähigkeit 2022," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 69424, December.

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