Strengthening Local Competitiveness: Strategies for Municipalities and Public Administrations

The key to a company’s competitiveness is usually to be found at local and regional level. How attractive a municipality is for residents and for businesses is therefore enormously important. In this course we work out which challenges municipalities have to face regionally, nationally and internationally, and how they can meet them. Using economic ideas we show how and why this (i) matters and (ii) that the future can indeed be shaped at local level. We apply these ideas as tools in order to develop concrete ways of making municipalities and regions more attractive and to keep pace with structural change at every level.