ABSTRACT
The notion of the competitiveness of regions remains an area of contested theoretical debate, with some arguing that firms, and not places, compete for resources and markets. Nevertheless, a significant forum of scholarly and practitioner-based research has developed in recent years with the aim of theorizing upon and empirically measuring the competitiveness of regions. However, the somewhat disparate and fragmented nature of this work has led to the lack of a substantive theoretical foundation underpinning the various analyses and measurement methodologies employed.
