Challenges of Industrial Policy to Enhance Competitiveness
Journal of Economics Library, 6(2), 83-96 (2019)
14 Pages Posted: 22 Jul 2019
Date Written: June 2019
Abstract
This study explores how the traditional approaches of perceiving competitiveness and industrial policy could be enriched through a synthetic and evolutionary perspective. Competitiveness, in particular, tends to be studied in the literature in a relatively fragmented way, focusing either on the level of individual nations, or on the sectors of economic activity, or on the firm level. As a result, the evolutionary structures that define competitiveness in a unified socioeconomic way are usually bypassed. In this context, the traditional approach to industrial policy-making, which has as sole objective the strengthening of specific sectors, is inadequate to enhance the multilevel socioeconomic competitiveness in our days. Therefore, we suggest a comprehensive re-positioning of the concept of "organic competitiveness" in overall and synthetic socioeconomic terms (firms-sectors-socioeconomic systems) as useful for a redirected modern industrial policy.
Keywords: Competitiveness, Industrial policy, Evolutionary link between competitiveness and industrial policy, Globalization
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