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This book focuses on the main challenges that cities, regions and other territories at sub-national level face when it comes to designing and implementing a territorial strategy for economic development and competitiveness. There is a widespread recognition that territories need to construct strategies that focus on shaping sustainable competiti
List of contents
1. Strategies for shaping territorial competitiveness: an introduction Part 1: A framework for analyzing territorial strategy 2. Territorial strategy: Deepening in the ‘what’ 3. What is regional strategy? Lessons from business strategy 4. Territorial strategy: deepening in the ‘how’? 5. Reconciling territorial strategies goals and means: towards smart competitiveness policies 6. Evaluating territorial strategies Part 2: Cases in territorial strategy 7. The Basque Country: Past trajectory and path dependency in policy and strategy making 8. Regional competitiveness and Schumpeterian development: Policy evolution in Wales 9. Reflecting on ‘how’ territorial strategies form: The case of Rafaela, Argentina 10. Cross-bordering strategies for the Øresund Region: Different eras and institutional strategies, but unrevealed potentials 11. Regional social and economic development in the Okanagan, Canada: Envisioning the future to initiate a strategy 12. Constructing Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3): Lessons from practice in three European regions 13. Where next for territorial strategy? Concluding remarks and a call to arms
About the author
Jesús M. Valdaliso is Professor of Economic History and Institutions in the School of Economics and Business Administration at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain.
James R. Wilson is a Senior Researcher at Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness, Spain, and faculty at Deusto Business School, University of Deusto, San Sebastián, Spain.
Summary
This book focuses on the main challenges that cities, regions and other territories at sub-national level face when it comes to designing and implementing a territorial strategy for economic development and competitiveness. There is a widespread recognition that territories need to construct strategies that focus on shaping sustainable competiti
