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.

"Since the sixth edition of this book, published in 2017, many economies around the world have continued to feel the aftershocks of the deepest recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s, which started with the well-publicised 'credit crunch'. Despite continuing academic debate about the...