Analysis of regional economic pattern

The constituents of regional economy - manifesting relations between the whole and its parts - have been addressed, particularly in terms of development of regional economic structures (RES). The ways how to evaluate RES, indicators of regional economy's performance related to its sector composition, assessment of diversification and specialization make up the main foci of the paper. The issue of identification of regions as entities appropriate for definition of economic systems has been also approached - with reference to the theoretical contribution of Perroux and his followers in the respective field. The arguments for enhancing the concept of regions as identifiable spatial elements has been raised. Comparison of the input and output attributes of regional economy have arrived at the issue of significance and position of diversification and specialization criteria in the regional analysis. Both of the two aspects can be represented by a number of indicators, the most important of them having been explained in the text, as well as selected graphic tools of analysing the major relations to be observeject in question. The knowledge concerning the development of the regional sector pattern refer - beside othfer - beside other - to regional conditions and resources for the localization of particular areas of economic activities.regional economy, identification of regions, economic structure, performance, development, diversification, specialization