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Regional Studies. Vol. 38.9 , pp . 991-999 , December 2(K)4 Carfax Publishing Regional Competitiveness : An Elusive yet Key Concept? MICHAEL KITSON* , RON MARTIN f and PETER TYLER^ *Juiige Institute of Management, [Department of Geography and i^Department of Laud Economy, University of Cm Cambridge, UK. Emails: mk24@cam.ac.ttk; rhnl@cam.ac.uk; pt23@catn.ijc.uk , INTRODUCTION established a European Council of Competitiveness, and it undertook to produce a regular Competitiveness There is now widespread agreement that we are wit- Report on the pertbrmance of the economy of the nessing the resurgence of regions as key loci in the European Union (the most recent being the seventh, organization and governance of econoniic growth and for 201)3). In the European Union , the issue of com- wealth crearion. A previous special issue of this journal petitiveness has taken on particular significance in rela- (Rethinking the Regions , Regional Studies (2003) tion to its Lisbon growth strategy, with its higlily 37(6/7)) was devoted