Year: 2006
Type: book
Abstract: Substantial territorial disparities continue to exist between Europe’s regions. Still today, the nature of \nthe variation across regions is not well understood, neither is the role of information and \ncommunication technology (ICT), which could have been expected to eliminate traditional disparities \nbetween central and peripheral regions because of its contribution to ‘time-space compression’. \nExisting evidence suggests that, while the potentials of ICT are available – at least to some degree – \nto every region, the ways and the effectiveness with which regions exploit these potentials vary hugely \nacross the EU territory. In this context, the notion of transformation as a particular kind of change has \nrecently come to the fore in the public debate. We consider transformational change as a change in \nthe form of (regional) society but not its type, and neither its underlying goals and aims. We can thus \ndistinguish transformational change both from the incremental change in degree, on the one hand, \nand from totalising or revolutionary change, on the other.
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2150243264