The Effects of Spatial Organization of Networking Knowledge-intensive Enterprises from the Point of View of Spatial Planning

Abstract

The subject of the work are networks created by the company, with particular emphasis on knowledge-intensive enterprises. The aim of the work is to identify and attempt to assess the effects of networking knowledge-intensive enterprises, posed by spatial organization of the network, and which may be of importance for spatial policy. The article was based on research conducted by Polish and foreign authors, which were created in the second decade of the twenty-first century. Activity of networked knowledge-intensive enterprises requires careful analysis in terms of the observed and potential effects seen in space in relation to the nature of the business of these entities which does not require, and in many cases, the spatial proximity of the participants of the network. In the research presented in the article could be observed different nature of the effects of the development of knowledge-based economy in space. Processes networking business can lead to negative consequences in the form of excessive concentration of management functions and absorb resources from the less developed and less attractive regions escalated by migration processes. At the same time the second example shows that the same processes in different conditions of development can be perceived positively as an opportunity to create a great „communicated with the big world” areas polycentric development in regions previously dominated by small and medium-sized towns, which use links to nodes of the global and international importance as a „transmission belt” for their own development.