TOWARD THE LEARNING REGION

Regions ave becoming focal points for knowledge creation and learning in the new age of global, knowledge-intensive capitalism, as they in e ffect become learning regions. These learning regions function as coll ectors and repositories of knowledge and ideas, and provide the underl ying environment or infrastructure which facilitates the flow of knowl edge, ideas and learning. In fact, despite continued predictions of th e end of geography, regions are becoming more important modes of econo mic and technological organization on a global scale.