The study presents an overview of key global innovations and processes, and describes their presumable regional impact in Estonia.
Regional inequality is on the rise in developed world, but also in many developing countries.
The qualitative thematic analysis comprises six topics: regional economic concentration; territorial scope of economic regions; regional specialization; international and cross-border opportunities for regional development; institutional framework for regional development; values guiding development. The analysis focuses on the normative component in strategies and applied research ─ what is considered to be normal and/or desirable future state of affairs.
This paper has illustrated main characteristics and tendencies for Estonian firms’ network and analyzed main factors that influence the emergence and persistence of trading relationship between firms.
Estonian regional policy has set out to implement the potential based on regional identity. So far, however, this has not been able to reverse the increasing concentration of economic activities into metropolitan regions.
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