Regional Economic Policy, Economic Technological Innovation and Networks

摘要

Attention is focussed on the existence of spatial economic networks and therelevance of these networks to regional economic development and regional policy. As a consequence of this the paper emphasizes that the creation and the promotion of networks needs to be incorporated in the economic policy. First of all a description is presented of the phenomenon production-environment, the importance of networks and the potential importance of economic networks for regional economic development. The next section is responsible for the promotion of the creation of (spatial) economic networks. From this section one can draw the conclusion that both production and innovation need more networking in the near future. The regional economic policy should try to deal with these developments. The 6th section presents some reasons for this. At the same time some characteristic features of 'modern' regional economic policy is presented briefly.