Productive Competitiveness and Regional Development: A Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

This article aims to, essentially, analyse the perspective of different scientific works on the influence of productive competitiveness on the development of regions in their different scales. This systematic literature review study was based on around 103 works published on themes about the competitiveness and productivity of the regions present in the Scopus database. <i>Zotero</i> and <i>VOSViewer</i> software were used to manage the database of this investigation, allowing not only the qualitative organization of key contents, but also the mapping of existing authors and linkages in terms of co-occurrences. The methodology used allowed exploring the different conceptual establishments that seek to relate productivity with the competitiveness of the regions and vice versa. As a criterion for the inclusion of works and consequent analysis, conceptual review studies on territorial competitiveness with a geographic economic focus were chosen, extracted from the Scopus database. This review also made it possible to extract the main accessible meanings in the keywords of seminal authors in studies of this nature, research trends in terms of interests in the development of studies that seek to explore competitive capacity of regions in recent years, as well as studies on the capabilities of regions tending to specialization, innovation, valuation of intellectual (human) and territorial capital and sustainability.