Studies on the knowledge society and regional innovation systems and their contribution to economic growth are already well established in research literature. This book ('Geographical Perspectives ...on the Knowledge Society in Slovenia') is based on a geographical analysis of connections between technological knowledge, competitiveness factors, and economic effects. It proceeds from the hypothesis that economic effectiveness in a region originates from the quality of human capital, in which innovations are the precondition for social progress, competitiveness, and developmental success. This article analyzes the spatial expansion of the knowledge society based on socioeconomic and development indicators in Slovenia. The key finding is that these areas are unevenly distributed. The high share of centers of national importance and neighboring suburban municipalities in emerging urban regions stands out in particular. Areas with a high percentage of creative professions are more innovative and their economic and social development is more successful.
Global scientific literature widely deals with analysis of regional innovative systems and their contribution to economic growth. Modern theories and empirical researches indicate strong correlation ...between the technical progress, creative human resources, toleration and capital investments. New investments are basic but not sufficient condition for balancing the developmental stimulation. Capital, linked with investment activities, natural (material) resources and human resources (work, knowledge, information) are main driving forces of the economic progress. New forms of investments today are strongly connected with population educational structure and knowledge, therefore investments do not occur everywhere, simultaneously and equally.
The number of debates about the modernization of spatial planning in Slovenia has only recently risen. Some new planning views on the politics of spatial development in theory as well as in practice ...arepresented in this article. Spatial planning has over the past decades modified some of its most relevant areas. With this, the instruments, directives and different steps focused more on the three most important areas : the handling of the growth of the urban system net and determining the settlement structures, the planning of proper usage of the surface with environmentally builtin components of lasting development and the planning of transport and economic infrastructure. With the growing europeization and internationalization, spatial planning underwent some changes right at the core at the beginning of the 21st century. There is a growingurge of equalizing spatial planning on the European level and forming a more active model on the implementation level. Project orientation, new cooperational and moderational models, which are trying to realize all the goals and transfer them into the real world are put right in the centre. With the help of new instruments it is possible to realize all the abstract-based goals, which are written in the researchdocuments and strategies, which more precisely
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