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Competitiveness and Growth in Brazilian Cities - Local Policies and Actions for Innovation (Paperback, New)
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Competitiveness and Growth in Brazilian Cities - Local Policies and Actions for Innovation (Paperback, New)
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The book contributes to answering the questions raised by mayors,
governors, and federal government officials in Brazil: What can
cities do to improve economic performance and create jobs? The
question is approached through a review of theories and policy
options for city competitiveness, preliminary benchmarking of
Brazilian cities, and case studies of two urban areas in Northeast
Brazil the Cariri region, CearAi?? and SAGBPo LuA--s, MaranhAGBPo.
The book concludes that to become and stay competitive, cities need
to strive to reduce the cost of doing business by improving
services, infrastructure, and reducing bureaucracies. But for a
middle-income country like Brazil, which needs to be economically
competitive in a globalized environment, this is not sufficient.
Cities also need to strive to add value to local businesses. A
crucial part of the strategy should be to create and sustain an
environment that stimulates local firms to innovate and learn from
each other, to nurture and facilitate the creation of synergies
generated by the presence of interconnected economic clusters in
the city, and to provide incentives for all local players to
continuously upgrade the level of competitiveness to become better
and the best. With regard to local policy actions, this book
highlights the cluster approach to competitiveness, with its focus
on facilitating private sector collaborations for collective
efficiency organizing and facilitating private and public
institutions to arrive at a common cluster vision; identifying
opportunities for growth and collaboration; promoting joint actions
such as co-information, co-learning, co-marketing, and
co-purchasing; and jointly building economic foundations such as
R&D capacities, infrastructure, skills upgrading, and public
private sector support institutions. This book has provided many
examples of actions that may be undertaken at the local level, but
it also emphasizes the critical importance for cities to pursue a
unique strategy based on their comparative and competitive
advantages.
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