Hálózatelmélet a regionális versenyképesség szolgálatában = Network theory in the pay of regional competitiveness

Abstract

Network systems have recent decades become influential both in terms of the everyday practice of human-social-technological relations and in public mind. By the patterns of the different sciences the world appears more as a network, emphasised its relations. Regional researches also adapt the new perspective and discuss regions as an entity of social networks rather than just a group of individuals and social groups. Surveys express that economic performance and network indices have a direct and definite relation both in the case of normal and scale variant networks. Hence it is not only the cohesion inside a network that boosts performance but also the cooperation of regions. Present paper aims at systemising network literature by its approaches, methodologies and experience, which may create a renewal in the perspectives and the methodological foundations of regional network researches and development.