noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
industrial
▪ To enhance innovation, technology transfer, productivity, and industrial competitiveness through academic-industrial partnerships.
▪ Industrial economics Technological innovation is recognised to be an important determinant of industrial competitiveness.
▪ Management studies Marketing is believed to be an important determinant of industrial competitiveness.
international
▪ Similarly, countries may make use of automation to improve their international competitiveness, sometimes at the expense of other countries.
▪ The key to growth and stable employment will be through improving the international competitiveness and increasing the market share of our companies.
▪ Profits and international competitiveness suffered accordingly.
▪ The new regime must enhance our international competitiveness without saddling our businesses with unnecessarily complex compliance mechanisms.
▪ They need only announce a general aim of improving efficiency or international competitiveness and their case is virtually made for them.
▪ High military expenditure will fuel inflation, reduce international competitiveness, and balance of payments crises will occur as public debt increases.
▪ A manufacturing strategy was developed to strengthen the international competitiveness of Glasgow's manufacturing sector.
■ VERB
improve
▪ Similarly, countries may make use of automation to improve their international competitiveness, sometimes at the expense of other countries.
▪ Industrialists reacted favourably to the measures, although many considered them too weak to improve competitiveness and cool the economy.
▪ The government says the move will help to create jobs and improve the competitiveness of the economy.
▪ That is already improving our competitiveness and we shall see its effects on job creation before much longer.
▪ The key to growth and stable employment will be through improving the international competitiveness and increasing the market share of our companies.
▪ The draft also provided for additional aid to industry to improve its competitiveness.
▪ The thing we have to do is keep improving our efficiency and competitiveness because our rivals are not standing still.
▪ These improvements can be implemented immediately, and could have multiple benefits in improving economic competitiveness and in environmental protection.
increase
▪ I have already referred to the progress that we have made in increasing productivity and competitiveness.
▪ An average growth rate of 11 % p.a. in real manufactured exports, reflecting increased competitiveness.
▪ Chrysler too has focused on management change to increase its competitiveness.
▪ Regional trade blocs Rather than act independently, many developing countries have tried to increase their competitiveness by forming regional trade blocs.
▪ The economic rationale, in terms of economic efficiency, was agreed in terms of increasing competitiveness, rather than the change of ownership.
▪ In this way they are seeking to increase their competitiveness and enhance the attractiveness of their services to purchasers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Keisha's enthusiasm and competitiveness rubbed off on the rest of the sales team.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And with the competitiveness come a few nicks and bruises.
▪ As the yen has climbed against the dollar over the past year, the country's competitiveness has suffered.
▪ It is hardly surprising that real wages rose less rapidly than productivity and hence that profitability and competitiveness improved.
▪ It is of concern within the single market since it distorts the operation of the labour market and competitiveness.
▪ It measures a country's competitiveness in world markets.
▪ The nature of the learning experiences in each room eliminates another barrier, competitiveness.
▪ To enhance innovation, technology transfer, productivity, and industrial competitiveness through academic-industrial partnerships.