Purpose: This paper aims to review the evidence on Europe’s economic performance and on the role played by policies pursued at the European Union (EU) level, using the competitiveness framework as the conceptual lens. Design/methodology/approach: Why has Europe not made more progress on...

The conceptual framework of competitiveness and clusters introduced by Michael Porter in his Competitive Advantage of Nations (Free, New York, <CitationRef CitationID="CR21">1990</CitationRef>) remains exceptionally influential, especially among practitioners. The article discusses recent learnings about Porter's conceptual framework from...</citationref>

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