Competitiveness has come to the forefront of the policy debate within the European Union, focusing on price … competitiveness and intra-EU imbalances. But how to measure competitiveness properly, beyond price or cost competitiveness, remains an …. Revisiting the competitiveness issue in such a perspective sheds new light on the ongoing debate. From 1995 to 2009 the EU-27 …

In 2005 the French government launched a policy of competitiveness clusters, giving subsidies for innovative projects …

to EU competitiveness. …

We revisit competitiveness issues using recent data and show that the global financial crisis has taken a toll on … European producers that before 2007 were maintaining their market positions. The EU competitiveness in goods has recently … been exhausted and further gains imply moves outside the EU with an enhanced focus on the competitiveness in services as an …