This handbook brings together a group of leading scholars, thinkers, policy makers, and business leaders to identify, articulate, and analyse what influences and shapes local competitiveness and what places can do to enhance their economic performance.

Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction -- David B. Audretsch, Albert N. Link and Mary Lindenstein Walshok -- PART I: THE CONCEPT OF LOCAL COMPETITIVENESS -- 2. The Strategic Management of Place -- David B. Audretsch -- 3. Talent , Cities, and Competitiveness -- Richard Florida and...

A large literature has emerged focusing on the post-entry performance of firms and, in particular, on thelinks between firm growth, survival, size and age. While these studies have resulted in findings that aresufficiently consistent as to constitute Stylized Facts, virtually all of these...