The article analyzes the spatial dispersion of creative occupations in various municipalities in Slovenia. The main conclusion, which can be drawn from the article, is the very uneven distribution of ...creative occupations, which are most dominant in national employment centres and suburban areas of city regions. Creative social groups undoubtedly represent a strong impact on the regional development, which is seen through GDP per capita. The areas with higher levels of creative occupations are more innovative and their social and economic development more dynamic. The analyses also show a positive correlation between the share of employed people in creative occupations and innovativeness based on the average number of patents per capita.
The paper presents some geographical characteristics of investment development in the first years of the 21st century, covering at least fragmentarily the gap in Slovenia’s economic geography. In the ...process we tried to draw attention to the sporadic character and rapid developmental changes in economic geographical events within production systems. In the paper we focus on the geographical distribution of investments and their impacts on regional development. Special attention is devoted to studying the spatial distribution of investment activities relative to factors such as the amount, development, branch structure, and distribution of the amount of investment that indicate the diversification and development of the economy.
Rast naselij je tudi v Sloveniji že desetletja v pretežni meri povezana s širitvijo njihovih zunanjih meja izven historičnih in organskih pogojenih meja. V sodobnosti največjo dinamiko izkazujejo ...obmestna in tudi oddaljenejša podeželska naselja. Druga značilnost sodobne prostorske preobrazbe naselij pa je povezana s prevladujočo disperzno pozidavo pretežno prosto stoječih enostanovanjskih hiš, kar namesto že dolgo časa izraženih želja po decentralizirani koncentraciji bivanjskih območij, le-ta odstopa od političnih ciljev in v sorazmernem deležu povišuje stroške infrastrukturne opremljenosti.
Prispevek pojasnjuje vlogo podeželja v sodobnih družbenih procesih s poudarkomin na pomenu prepletanj med mesti in podeželjem. Poudarek je na pregledu sodobnih teženj v razvoju naselij in rabe ...površja. Z njimi opozarjamona procese, ki potekajo v nasprotju z želenimi cilji. S simuliranjem razvojnih posledic v več tipičnih območij z različnimi razvojnimi možnostmi se opirajoč na spontane procese opredeljujemo do zaraščanja kmetijskih zemljišč in preobrazbe kmetijskih zemljišč v stavbna zemljišča. V zaključku s pomočjo simulacijskega modela podajamo možne usmeritve za nadaljnji gospodarski razvoj na podeželju.
Tudi v Sloveniji smo v zadnjem času priča razpravam o modernizaciji regionalnega planiranja. Pri iskanju sodobnih prijemov usmerjanja regionalnega razvoja ga spremlja tudi dobršna mera terminološke ...zmede. V prispevku predstavljamo novejše planerske poglede do politik regionalnega razvoja v teoriji in praksi. Kot podlago politikam sodobnega usmerjanja regionalnega razvoja utemeljujemo pojem regionalnega managementa . Z njim smo poskusili odgovoriti na naslednja vprašanja: kaj je regionalni management, kaj želimo z njim doseči in kaj so njegove temeljne naloge.
In the reform of the institutional system with the introduction of a second level of local self-gov-ernment, factors of balanced regional development play an important role. These are linked to the ...suitable division of Slovenia into functionally rounded areas and the evaluation of variant divisions and the effects of the polycentric basis of the network of settlements and the decentralization of institutions. The size and geographical position of regions are of strategic importance for the country's regional and spatial plan-ning policies.
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 article is composed of two parts. The first is based on theoretical geographical-devel-opmental factors of balanced competitiveness of cities (regions) in conditions of globalization and the ...emphasized role of a creative milieu as fundamental development impulses. The second one explores the importance of Ljubljana and its role in the system of innovative urban centers in contrast to the metrop-olis agglomerations in the wider surroundings employing empirical findings. We support its position using the geographical dimensions of innovative dynamics as the fundamental development generator for the entire national urban system and evaluate its developmental research potential as well as investment, eco-nomic, and population capacities from the viewpoint of the opportunities offered by its central position and function as a capital city.
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.
In this paper, the authors divide Slovenia's countryside on the basis of selected indicators combined in eight different content complexes, which they call »partial syntheses«: Natural Limitation ...Factors, Land and Agricultural Systems, Property Conditions, Population Characteristics, Characteristics of Economic Efficiency, Personal Infrastructure, Frontier Status, and Agricultural Burdening of the Environment. The partial syntheses are the basis of an integral synthesis with five distinct levels of countryside development. In the second part of the paper, the importance of the division of the countryside is presented from the viewpoint of providing diverse forms of assistance to ensure its coordinated development, as well as from the viewpoint of monitoring indicators of deviations from the desired impacts of regional development to which the term »regional disparities« refers.
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