Selected initiatives to support the development and their costs on the example of regional marine economy

Abstract

Regional policy is facing enormous challenges, as the deepening differences between regions and within regions. The authors justify this state of GUS measurements and government diagnoses pointing to the selected initiatives which are chances to compensate for the differences and reverse the trend of degradation towards the development of regions. The paper’s main attention is focused on the maritime economy, where there were large discrepancies in interpretation between the perspectives approach to the diagnosis of the maritime economy: theoretical, political and practical. The differences arise from methodological reasons and goals. The analysis of selected initiatives supporting the development of the maritime economy attempts have been made to identify costs.