Competitiveness Review: Volume 30 Issue 2

How can universities contribute to regional competitiveness policy-making?

Mari Jose Aranguren, Edurne Magro

This paper aims to contribute to understanding regional competitiveness policy-making and the role academic organisations can play in that process. Competitiveness policies have…

Public innovation through governance in place-based competitiveness policymaking: The case of Bizkaia Orekan

Ainhoa Arrona, Susana Franco, James R. Wilson

The purpose of this paper is to explore the link between collaborative governance arrangements for place-based competitiveness and public innovation.

An urban composite development index based on China's five development concepts

Khee Giap Tan, Xuyao Zhang, Lin Song

Shandong is a thriving economic centre, being the third largest province by land area in China. It also has the second largest resident population of 99,470,000 and the third…

Repositioning a country for global manufacturing competitiveness: a case of South Africa

Gareth Earle Gates, Olufemi Adetunji

This study aims to develop an artifact to measure the level of manufacturing competitiveness of a country in the global context and provide a suitable interpretation mechanism for…

Relative absorptive capacity as a booster of innovation in an automotive cluster

Laura Zapata-Cantu, Josep Rialp, Ana Olga Rodríguez

This study aims to address the relevance of the mediating role of the relative absorptive capacity (ACAP-R) in the relation between absorptive capacity and innovation…

Creative destruction and knowledge creation as the mediation between innovation speed and competitiveness of food small and medium-sized enterprises in Malang, Indonesia

Stefanus Yufra M. Taneo, Djumilah Hadiwidjojo, Sunaryo Sunaryo, Sudjatno Sudjatno

This study aims to examine the role of creative destruction and knowledge creation which is a mediation between the speed of innovation and the competitiveness of food small- and…

Organizational ambidexterity in policy networks

Henar Alcalde Heras, Miren Estensoro, Miren Larrea

This paper aims to propose an analytical framework in which to study ambidexterity in the management of policy networks. The paper is inspired by the concept of organizational…