Document: Regional Intelligence And Competitiveness

Regional intelligence can be defined as the capacity of a region to both anticipate socioeconomic change and manage the knowledge derived from such change for the purpose of developing policies, know-how and innovation to eventually become a centre of competence or a key contributor to the competitiveness of existing regional companies.

In other words, regional intelligence is the regional equivalent of the advantages drawn by the private sector from concepts including economic intelligence, technology watch and transfer as well as RTD activities, with all the consequences this carries in terms of management as well as planning, making and implementing decisions.