Peripheries, Mobilities and e-Technologies: The Rise of Regional Social Network
| Résumé |
The mobility of highly qualified people is a major issue for
regional development and represents a matter of particular concern
for peripheral regions, which tend to be characterized by the out
migration of their graduates (brain drain). While regional policies
have traditionally focused on the labor market and framework
conditions in order to foster territorial development, a new kind
of instrument is emerging: the regional social network. This
approach to policymaking no longer considers highly qualified
people leaving their home region as a loss, but sees them as
potential resources to be mobilized and capitalized at a distance.
Based on six case studies, this paper elaborates a typology of
regional social networks and analyzes their governance and
management. It situates this new approach in a more general debate
on regional innovation policies with regard to the specific needs
of peripheral regions in a time of growing spatial mobility and the ubiquitous use of e-technologies. |
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| Citation | Rérat Patrick / Jeannerat Hugues, Peripheries, Mobilities and e-Technologies: The Rise of Regional Social Network, disP - The Planning Review, vol. 50, no 1, 2014, p. 33-42. |
| Type | Article de périodique (Anglais) |
| Date de publication | 6-6-2014 |
| Nom du périodique | disP - The Planning Review |
| Volume | 50 |
| Numéro | 1 |
| Pages | 33-42 |
| URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02513625.2014.926723 |