Regional Competitiveness // CONTENTS // 1 Regional Competitiveness: An Elusive yet Key Concept? // RON MARTIN, MICHAEL KITSON and PETER TYLER 1 // 2 Competitiveness of Regions from an Evolutionary Perspective // RONA. BOSCHMA 11 // 3 Conceptual Framework for Regional Competitiveness // LESLIE BUDD and AMER K. HIRMIS 25 // 4 Competition, Collaboration and Cooperation: An Uneasy Triangle in Networks of Firms and Regions // KAREN R. POLENSKE 39 // 5 Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Growth across the European Regions // BEN GARDINER, RON MARTIN and PETER TYLER 55 // 6 Cities, Regions and Competitiveness // IVAN TUROK 79 // 7 Globalization and Competitive Strategy in Europe’s Vulnerable Regions: Firm, Industry and Country Effects in Labour-intensive Industries // GORDON L. CLARK, THEO PALASKAS, PAUL TRACEY and MARIA TSAMPRA 95 // 8 Jockeying for Position: What It Means and Why It Matters to Regional Development Policy When Places Compete // EDWARD J. MALECKI 111 // 9 The Economic Performance of Regions // MICHAEL E. PORTER 131 // Index 161