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Chaired by city of Riga in Latvia, the EUROCITIES Access to Culture working group was created in March 2007 with the aim of defining, identifying, and comparing culture accessibility issues in cities. The working group focused on sharing views and practices aimed at improving the accessibility of cultural spaces and services and the participation of different social groups in local cultural life. The working group took all aspects of accessibility into consideration: social, cultural, intellectual, physical and financial.

This is the Introductory Chapter from Perspectives on Learning Cities and Regions: Policy, Practice and Participation edited by Norman Longworth and Mike Osborne and has been published here through the kind consent of the publisher, NIACE. The full version of the book can be found as an e-book at the URL below.

The aim of this paper is to correlate learning with social and economic development. The paper addresses the following questions: To what extent do the learning regions in Romania provide a framework for innovation, development and social inclusion? Do they provide the “underlying environment or infrastructure which facilitates the flow of knowledge, ideas and learning?” as Richard Florida defined them. Romania is organized into eight regions of development (42 counties were grouped using industrial and global indicators, and thus the eight regions of development were formed).

Nell'interpretazione teorica dei processi di sviluppo dei sistemi locali di impresa, negli anni '90 emerge un nuovo paradigma, definibile come il paradigma economico-cognitivo, orientato all'evidenziazione di quegli elementi di contesto che favoriscono la decisione economica in condizioni di incertezza e i processi di acquisizione di conoscenza nella dinamica competitiva.