O miernikach konkurecyjności regionalnej

The article is concerned with quantification of the idea of regional competitiveness. The fact that a generally accepted definition is missing from the subject literature results in problems appearing in empirical studies, that are connected with measuring this category. We accept that regional competitiveness is the ability of the administrative system to effect changes in its inner quantitative structure, that is the number and intensity of elements that make up the region, and its qualitative structure, that is the kind and type of relations occurring between the elements of the region and its surrounding. Formulated in this way regional competitiveness is reduced to a measure of regional structures and distances.