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外文翻译 原文 UK Competitiveness Index 2010 Material Source: Centre for International Competitiveness Author: Robert Huggins and Piers Thompson Chapter 1 – Introduction This report represents the 2010 edition of the UK Competitiveness Index (UKCI), which was first introduced and published in 2000. It represents a benchmarking of the competitiveness of the UK’s regions and localities. The UK Competitiveness Index has been designed as an integrated measure of competitiveness focusing on both the development and sustainability of businesses and the economic welfare of individuals. In this respect, we consider competitiveness to consist of the capability of an economy to attract and maintain firms with stable or rising market shares in an activity, while maintaining stable or increasing standards of living for those who participate in it. This makes clear that competitiveness is not a zero-sum game, and does not rely on the shifting of a finite amount of resources from one place to another. Competitiveness involves the upgrading and economic development of all places together, rather than the improvement of one place at the expense of another. However, competitiveness does involve balancing the different types of advantages that one place may hold over another, i.e. the range of differing strengths that the socio-economic environment affords to a particular place compared to elsewhere. Since the UK Competitiveness Index was first introduced, the number of indicators and variables constituting the Regional and Local UK Competitiveness Indices has expanded. However, the fundamental methodology underlying them has remained the same. In this report, we publish indices for 2010 (incorporating the most up-to-date data available), as well as those presented in the 2008 report (where comparable) as a means of comparison and examining the UK’s changing competitiveness landscape. In this election year, comparisons are also made with the 1997 version of the UK Competitiveness Index. Due