Chapter 11 The Competitiveness of Nations: Why Some Countries Prosper While Others Fall Behind
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Monograph Chapter
Publication Date:
27 Apr 2018
Page Range:
233–258
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Economics 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788110266.00019
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Why do the some countries perform much better than other countries? This paper outlines a synthetic framework, based on Schumpeterian logic, for analyzing this question. Four different aspects of competitiveness are identified: technology, capacity, demand and price. The contribution of the paper is particularly to highlight the three first aspects, which often tend to be ignored due to measurement problems.

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Cover Innovation, Economic Development and Policy
Innovation, Economic Development and Policy
Monograph Book
Publication Date:
27 Apr 2018
Print ISBN:
9781788110259
eISBN:
9781788110266
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788110266
Page Count:
c 432
Collections:
Economics 2018
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