Localized creativity, small high-tech entrepreneurship, related innovation platforms, social capital embedded in dynamically open territorial communities and context-specific though continuously upgrading policy platforms are all means to face new challenges and to promote incre…
"Is the United States falling behind in the global race for scientific and engineering talent? Are U.S. employers facing shortages of the skilled workers that they need to compete in a globalized world? Such claims from some employers and educators have been widely embraced by m…
Economic cycles are driven by financial flows, namely quantities of savings and credits, and not by high street inflation or interest rates. Their sweeping destructive powers are expressed through Global liquidity, a $ 130 trillion pool of footloose cash. Global Liquidity descri…
On competition
by Porter, Michael E., Porter, Michael E.
fromThe Harvard business review book series
For the past fifteen years, Michael Porter's work has defined our fundamental understanding of competition and competitive strategy. Presented here for the first time as a collective whole are a dozen articles, two entirely new pieces together with ten of Porter's articles from …
Porter was the first to bridge the field of industrial organization with the field of management, effectively forging the new field of competitive strategy.
Space is a crucial variable in any economic activity. Spatial Economics is the branch of economics that explicitly aims to incorporate the space dimension in the analysis of economic phenomena. From its beginning in the last century, Spatial Economics has contributed to the unde…
Bureaucrats, businesses, and economic policies in a globalized China -- Chasing foreign capital -- From FDI attraction to domestic competitiveness -- Local policy making, globalized coalitions, and resource allocation -- The micro foundation of state intervention and policy effe…
