OECD Territorial Reviews
Subtitle: Milan, Italy 2006
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Series: OECD Territorial Reviews; OECD territorial reviews
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9789264028920
Subjects: Governance; Rural and Regional Development Urban
Description: Milan has earned a high-profile reputation as a centre of advanced functions, in addition to being an international capital of fashion and design. However, both internal and external challenges are putting strains on Milan’s aspiration to become a southern European and Mediterranean hub.  This review highlights Milan’s potential to capitalise on its advanced services to bolster the regional innovation dynamics and to fuel national growth. It also points out that failure to accelerate the innovation process and to enhance the region’s attractiveness as well as its capacity to implement flagship projects could prove costly. Finally, it calls for rapid metropolitan governance reforms to design and to implement a competitiveness strategy for the entire metropolitan region.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Acknowledgements; title: Assessments and Recommendations; title: Chapter 1. Milan in the Global Economy; title: Chapter 2. Enhancing the Competitiveness of Milan; title: Chapter 3. What Governance to Revive Milan?; title: Annex: Decomposition of Differences in GDP per Capita; title: Bibliography