| Summary: | 博士 === 逢甲大學 === 土木暨水利工程博士學位學程 === 99 === The information technology had given rise to information explosion which led to the transformation from the traditional mode mainly supported by material and energy techniques to the Internet mode supported by information technology. The transformation resulted in the changes of producing methods and life style. Moreover, it became the common concern of many disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, economics and geography. Regions were the study core of geography, regional development was the main field of geography, and the advance of technology was the internal action of regional development. The information era brought opportunities and challenges. In order to adjust to an era of rapid changes and uncertainty, how to use information and create knowledge became the key of all regional development.
The study synthesized the theories and approaches of applied economics, sociology, economic geography, regional science and so on. It also regarded regions as a development organism. A strong interaction existed between regions and the environment. The regions were the internal cause of regional development, while the environment was the external one. The initiative and creativity of regions determined the direction of their development. The study core was the mechanism for the formation and development of a learning region which included the development of action mechanism, cooperation mechanism, regional difference mechanism and adjustment mechanism in a learning region. From the enterprise, industrial and regional levels, the development causes of a learning region were viewed to explore the relationship between learning and regional economy, to analyze the connection between knowledge production and value actualization and regional development, to expound the intrinsic logic and to construct a complete development framework of a learning region.
First, the study analyzed the theory of regional development and basic theory of an innovative city, and it also summarized and evaluated the results of a learning region. From the aspects of information, globalization and a dynamic market, it promulgated the macroscopic background derived from it. Next, the action mechanism was used to analyze regional development, and it also specifically analyzed the reformation of knowledge production, the reasons of enterprises becoming the main body of knowledge production, and the mechanism of the knowledge production mode of enterprises and the mechanism of the requirements of industry cooperation. Last but not the least, it analyzed time and space evolution, and explored the adjustment mechanism and measures of a learning region and an innovative city.
Take the case study of home and abroad for example, the basic features and types of an innovative country and the development mode and evolution of an innovative city were addressed. The instance of a learning region in Scotland was reviewed, and it inspired others. The reforming practice study of our country was cited to illustrate the change from a city of a regional technology center to an innovative city.
Take Taichung for example, the theory of a learning region was applied on the developmental problems of the city from a historical perspective to determine and analyze low learning abilities and to propose some measures for its regional development.
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