Development Potentials and Smart Specializations of Polish Regions – book review (original) (raw)

2015, MAZOWSZE Studia Regionalne

The reviewed book is devoted to the issue of smart specialization of Polish regions. Smart specialization are supposed to help to mobilize and fully use regions' endogenous development potential. The book presents the process of identification of smart specializations and their typology. This publication may also play a role of feasibility study, since it provides many detailed information on regions' development potential and plans for the future. The problems of specialization and development potential of regions have reached a new dimension in the context of discussions on how to implement the "Europe 2020" strategy and on what development paths the recovery from recession should be adopted. The emergence of new development incentives, necessary to overcome crisis phenomena requires preparation by regions and countries of the European Union effective mechanisms and instruments to mobilize their development potential. This mobilization, which is of a strategic nature and is described in brief as a "smart specialization", involves the purposeful and innovative use of resources and assets, which will lead to regional economic transformation. Smart specialization should ensure economic development based on endogenous resources, efficient use of available financial resources and innovative management methods. The logic behind the building of a smart specialization requires a selective approach to the region's resources and assets and involvement in this process by different stakeholders, who have a direct and indirect impact on the formulation and implementation of development policies. Smart specialization, as an instrument guiding development processes, should dr Mirosław Grochowski, geographer, employee of the Mazovian Office for Regional Planning; lecturer at the University of Warsaw. Specialized in management of development at regional and local scale, programming and planning of metropolitan areas development, contemporary problems of urban development / geograf, pracownik Mazowieckiego Biura Planowania Regionalnego; wykładowca na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim; specjalizuje się w: zarządzaniu rozwojem w skali regionalnej i lokalnej, programowaniu i planowaniu rozwoju obszarów metropolitalnych, współczesnych problemach rozwoju miast. Potencjały rozwoju i specjalizacje polskich województw-recenzja książki STRESZCZENIE Recenzowana książka poświęcona jest kwestii inteligentnych specjalizacji polskich regionów. Inteligentne specjalizacje mają sprzyjać uruchomieniu ich endogenicznego potencjału rozwojowego. W książce przedstawiono proces identyfikacji tych specjalizacji, ich typologię, oceniono ich realność w odniesieniu do posiadanego potencjału rozwojowego.