Rethinking regional competitiveness. The role of productivity
Rethinking regional competitiveness. The role of productivity

Summary/Abstract: There is a heated discussion in the academic literature on issues around place, territorial and regional competitiveness and its relation to productivity. The article aims to answer three questions, namely: 1. What precisely is meant by the competitiveness of regions? 2. In what sense do they compete? and 3. What is the relationship between regional competitiveness and regional productivity? The results of the analysis showed that there is still no consistent theoretical framework for answering the research questions unambiguously. The common measure of economic performance in the form of output per head of population is a combination of workforce factors, particularly the employment rate and labour productivity, however there are still some empirical problems with measuring the latter precisely at regional level. Both indicators are recognized as measures of revealed competitiveness, however, they reveal little of the sources of competitive advantage of a region.

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