Towards a competence theory of the region
主张将企业能力理论扩展到区域分析，认为区域作为生产系统，其竞争力源于社会互动中涌现的集体能力，并以英国剑桥高科技集群为例说明。
This paper argues the case for extending the competence theory of the firm, or more generally the competence perspective, to analysis of the region. The relevance of the perspective follows from the characterization of productive systems, such as firms and regions, as ensembles of competences that emerge from, but are not reducible to, social interaction. Attention is drawn to an identifiable (although unacknowledged) convergence of ideas in the recent regional literature, arguing that these ideas are best reconceptualized in terms of regional competences. The cluster of high-technology firms in the Cambridge region of the United Kingdom is briefly referred to in order to illustrate the main ideas of the paper. Copyright 1999 by Oxford University Press.