This keynote speech at the informal European Competitiveness Council (industry ministers) addresses the uneasy relationship of industrial and environmental policies, which was among the core agendas of the Polish EU presidency in 2011. In the presentation, emphasis is given to the major...

In this keynote speech at the 2011 meeting of the Italian Association for Industrial Economics and Policy (SIEPI) in Rome, a basic framework to the study of competitiveness was presented together with the main findings of a recent publication on Sectoral Growth Drivers. Members of SIEPI worried...

This paper advances a dynamic rationale for competitiveness policy that focuses on an economy's ability to evolve in order to achieve high real incomes along with desired qualitative changes in the socio-economic system. It highlights that the ubiquitous 'rationalities of failure,' either of...