Exploring the Networked Region

• This paper explores the connectedness of a region by examining its links to three important geographic levels: the regional (internal); the national, and the global. Drawing on the notion of connectedness and of a case of the region of Møre & Romsdal in Norway, we contend that a region is networked which means that viewing the regional place as one geographic aspect of a network, we can identify other equally important geographical places but of quite different kinds. The regional network is connected to a national network as well as to a global network, and it is how these connections play out that determines the character, function and development of the regional network just as much as the internal resources of the region itself.

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Företagsekonomi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Economics and Business -- Business Administration (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Connectedness

Interaction

Networks

Place

Networked region

Regional development

Norway

Business Studies

Företagsekonomi

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