Regional Systems – How to Make Them Work?
Keywords:
Regional development, regional strategic planning, innovation, Soft System MethodologyAbstract
Regions can be defined in many ways; they can be viewed generally as a system with a large variety of alternative strategic
alternatives of inputs and outputs, influenced by the interests of numerous actors. This gives a good reason for the use of system tools
for structuring the relationships, identifying key factors or put in order a strategic plan for development of a region. Soft systems
methodology is one of the strategic system tools, not explicitly utilised in regional strategic planning, offering quite a number of
impulses, especially if combining it with the innovation concept.
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