Abstract
Contemporary changes of socio-economic development factors. The aim of
the work is to determine the scope of contemporary changes of socio-economic development
factors, paying attention to the consequences for their interpretation and mechanism of impact
relating to the regional and local level. The main goal is specified by formulating the
following research questions: (1) What major megatrends shape contemporary developmental
transformations? (2) What is the direction and scope of changes in socio-economic development
factors? (3) How are the conditions of development processes changing as a result of
these changes and how they differentiate the processes of development in space? The article
is a synthesis of the results of two research projects of the National Science Center: NN 306
79 19 40: Socio-economic development and the development of areas of growth and areas of
economic stagnation (2011–2014) and OPUS 10 – 2015/19/B/HS5/00012: New challenges of
regional policy in shaping the factors of socio-economic development of less developed regions
(2016–2019) and the results of own authors’ research – employees of the Regional Analysis
Department at the Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management of the
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
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Authors and Affiliations
Barbara Konecka-Szydłowska