Competitive Border Region Theory and Practice
Competitive Border Region Theory and Practice

Summary/Abstract: Considerations presented in this paper are a contribution to the discussion on the conception of creating a competitive border region Polish–German border, as a competitive cross–border region, is a spatial unit based on the potential of three regions that form it. Processes connected with globalization and regional integration creates new challenges for the border regions. This is due to the fact that the integration processes in the contemporary economy have an increasing influence on the competition between border regions. The border regions, for years treated as peripheral and declining, are currently becoming areas of a more and more robust economic growth. This does not, however, apply to each and every border region. Cross–border location, communication routes and proximity of foreign markets do not always constitute factors of accelerated development. Acquisition of new investors or developments of the infrastructure conducive to investments result from actions undertaken within particular strategic programs realized by the border regions. The border region competitive product is a combination of material and human resources, structural and infrastructural factors, responding to the needs of the internal and external consumer.

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