Kształtowanie konkurencyjności regionów w aspekcie ich zrównoważonego rozwoju

This paper has been concerned with selected aspects of forming the competitive position of regions as a tool to create steady and sustainable regional development. The process of growing competitiveness of regions based predominantly on endogenous conditions determining development constitutes one of the most important elements of regional development mechanism. Some of prerequisites for possible increase in this competitiveness include size and structure of endogenous endowment and its functional and spatial coherence. In principle, regional policy, above all interregional government policy, should be directed at tending to diffusion of development processes from existing core areas (growth centres) into other areas of the country, particularly those becoming more and more peripheral.