学习型区域:面向全球化的区域发展

Learning Region: Regional Development Under the Environment of Globalization

全球化、知识化已经影响到区域发展模式 ,一种新型区域———学习型区域日显强大的竞争力。本文基于地理学界、区域科学界关于学习经济、学习企业等的最新研究 ,总结了这种新的区域发展模式。探讨了营建学习型区域的途径 ,联系的内涵 ,学习型区域的基本特征等四个方面的内容。进而提出营建学习型区域 ,必须充分发挥区域的能动性以及利用区域的复杂网络效应。

Social development is in the face of globalization and the knowledge based economy. Based on the knowledge based economy and learning firms which are lately put forward in geographical science and regional science, the essay summarizes new regional development mode: the conception of learning region. Learning region is a kind of flexible network system under the environment of different challenges and opportunities, which is promoted by all kinds of regional subjects including firms, governments, civil, locals, et al., and based on the regional network and information system. It explores the route of building learning region, including relational network for firms, relational network for regions and relationship network for countries. And the main part is building relationship network for firms, the basic parts are relational network for regions and countries. The connotation of proximity is made up of social proximity, cultural proximity, organization proximity, and space proximity. At last, it puts forward the basic characteristics of learning region, which are learning and innovating progress in the fields of society, culture, organization and institution including all the local subjects of firms, government, the local and civil, in order to exert the activity of learning region and develop the networks' effect of region. And under the environment of globalization, information modernization, network modernization and knowledge modernization, the new regional development strategy is building learning region.