Spatial patterns of territorial competitiveness: The role of peripherality, urbanization and physical geography

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• Intra-regional measures of territorial competitiveness capture a large heterogeneity across different territories and industries. • Accessibility, peripherality and geographical disadvantage, play different roles in different sectors of economic activity. • The paper highlights is a large centripetal attraction effect coming from the presence of metropolitan areas. • This second-nature geography effect dominates that of purely first-nature geographical disadvantage (peripherality, mountainous geography).