Industrial Tourism as a Factor of Sustainability and Competitiveness in Operating Industrial Companies

Tourism and Industrial Agglomeration

Tourism generates increased income and employment in host countries and regions which substantially improves local economies. On the other hand, the manufacturing sector remains the most important part in regional and national economies. By explicitly embedding a nontraded good sector into a new economic geography model, we were able to investigate the interdependence between the tourism sector...

Localized Learning and Industrial Competitiveness

This paper attempts to place regional development within the context of modern resource base theory. Firms do not locate or relocate in order to make use of ubiquities, but to utilise appropriate differences in regional capabilities, and the paper discusses the nature of such capabilities in enhancing or abating the competitiveness of firms, emphasising the crucial role of collective learning a...

Competitiveness and Sustainability – a Modern Economic Approach to the Industrial Policy

V. A. Popescu, Commercial Academy of Satu-Mare and Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Gh. N. Popescu, C. R. Popescu, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania The paper focuses on competitiveness and sustainability in the context of a modern economic approach to industrial policy, presenting a case study on Romania. The paper shows the challenges of the globalized economy...

Industrial Policy for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development

The point of departure of this paper is the hypothesis that we are in the midst of a change in the techno-economic paradigm. What we perceive as new challenges in a globalized world economy are in fact symptoms of the search for a new paradigm. There is some probability that a key feature of a new paradigm will be ecological sustainability. Therefore, a policy that tries to shape the structures...

Industrial Competitiveness and American National Security