Industrial competitiveness
- Bib ID:
- 2980354
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- Paris : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ; Washington, D.C. : OECD Washington Center,[distributor], c1996
- 136 p. ; 27 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9264153144
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Executive Summary 9
- Introduction 9
- Part I
- Competitiveness Policy: Issues for Discussion
- 1. The Concept 13
- The role of firms' absolute competitive advantage for factor income and factor employment performance 13
- The importance of competition between sites in the allocation of investments 14
- Global diffusion of knowledge and the decline of certain knowledge rents 14
- Systemic and "path-dependant" character of the national sources of efficiency 14
- The goal of competitiveness policies and issues for discussion 14
- 2. The Priorities 17
- Minimising costs 17
- Increasing productivity 17
- Facilitating market openings 18
- Strengthening infrastructures 19
- Issues for discussion 19
- 3. Policy Processes And Procedures 21
- Fragmentation of departmental interests 21
- Case for co-ordination 21
- International co-operation 22
- Issues for discussion 22
- Part 11
- High-Level Forum on Industrial Competitiveness
- (Paris, 18 October 1995)
- 1 Synthesis Of The Discussions 27
- Context of the discussion: general considerations 27
- Competitiveness: a way of approaching the issue 28
- Challenges and response 29
- Suggestions for a future agenda 34
- Industrial Competitiveness
- Part /II
- Competitiveness:An Overview of Reports Issued by Member Countries
- 1 Summary 37
- Reports reviewed 37
- The notion of competitiveness 38
- 2. Australia 39
- Nature of the report 39
- General thrust 39
- Summary overview 40
- 3. Canada 47
- Nature of the report 47
- General thrust 47
- Summary overview 47
- 4. Denmark 53
- Nature of the report 53
- General thrust 53
- Summary overview 53
- 5. Finland 57
- Nature of the report 57
- General thrust 57
- Summary overview 57
- 6. Germany 65
- Nature of the report 65
- General thrust 65
- Summary overview 66
- 7. Japan 77
- Nature of the report 77
- General thrust 77
- Summary overview 78
- 8. Portugal 83
- Nature of the report 83
- General thrust 83
- Summary overview 83
- 9. Spain 87
- Nature of the report 87
- General thrust 87
- Summary overview 88
- 10. United Kingdom 93
- Nature of the reports 93
- General thrust 93
- Summary overview 94
- Industrial Competitiveness
- 11. United States 101
- Nature of the reports 101
- General thrust 101
- Summary overview 102
- UNITED STATES (cont'd) 109
- Nature of the report 109
- General thrust 109
- Summary overview 109
- 12. European Commission 115
- Nature of the report 115
- General thrust 115
- Summary overview 115
- EUROPEAN COMMISSION (cont'd) 120
- Nature of the report 120
- General thrust 120
- Summary overview 121
- Annexes: 1. Summary Reports on Competitivity 125
- 2. List of Participants 127
- Notes 136.
- Notes:
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- At head of title: Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-126)
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry
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