The regional competitiveness: Methodological reflections

The discourse around the competitiveness of spatial socio-economic systems of different levels (countries, regions, cities) has developed very actively in recent decades. The article shows that the degree of elaboration of such important from the methodological point of view aspects of the problem as the consistent conceptualization of the “regional competitiveness” phenomenon, the identification of objects to which this concept is applied, as well as the choice of evaluation methods, leave much to be desired.