Terytorium i terytorializacja w europejskiej polityce rozwoju regionalnego
Territory and territorialisation in European regional development policy

Summary/Abstract: In the first part of the paper the author analyses the process of moving from the concepts of spaceand region to the notion of territory as a new development paradigm. The technological revolutionand resulting globalisation processes have brought about deep changes in the world economy. Thesephenomena have called into question the theoretical concepts dominating in economic sciencessince the 1970s. In regional economics the necessity to reformulate previous concepts has beentriggered by the inadequacy of existing conceptions and doctrines to explain new tendencies inspatial development. The second part of the paper demonstrates how concepts such as territory,territorialisation and territoriality gradually replace the notion of region or space in debates onEuropean regional policy and in official EU documents.

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