The article assesses the impact of the Estonian administrative-territorial reform of 2017 on settlement and regional economic development.
Garri Raagmaa
Director, Pärnu College of the University of Tartu, Associate Professor of Regional Planning
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The article assesses the impact of the Estonian administrative-territorial reform of 2017 on settlement and regional economic development.
In the globalising and increasingly knowledge-based economy, higher education institutions (HEI) are becoming ever more important in transferring, sharing and applying knowledge and skills. Regional HEIs may function as global pipelines, gathering knowledge from around the world and creating a buzz by translating, adapting and spreading this knowledge; all this is creating a forum for discussing crucial developments of regional strategies.
The aim of the article is to survey the changes over the last few decades in Estonia's regional economic development and future trends in the wider context of industrialised Western democracies. The article details the main factors that influenced Estonia's regional development and outlines the potential development of the first part of this century.