New Industrial Space of a Region: Theory and Methodology

Abstract

New industrial development taking place in the countries worldwide and their regions makes the research of the new industrialisation increasingly relevant. The research has a goal to examine the new industrial space, which is a specific part of economic space having conditions for the development of the new industrialisation and formed by industrial enterprises. The authors regard the new industrial space as a multitude of economic agents distributed within a certain geographic space that are oriented to manufacturing of products and components belonging to the fifth and sixth technological waves and integrated by telecommunications infrastructure into a single production process, as well as a set of flows and connections between them. The method devised for evaluating the state of the new industrial space at the level of regions allows classifying them according to two criteria: level of industrial development and maturity of innovative industrial environment.