Título original: Examens territoriaux de l'OCDE: Finlande.

Assessment and recommendations -- 1. Regional performances and underused potentials: Introduction -- 1. Major macroeconomic trends -- 2. Regional trends -- 3. Underused potentials -- 4. Major issues -- Notes -- 2. Strategies and policies: Introduction -- 1. Finnish regional policy today -- 2. Policies for urban competitiveness -- 3. Innovation-led policies -- 4. Service delivery in areas with population decline issues -- Notes -- 3. Governance issues: Introduction -- 1. Regional policy challenges -- 2. The institutional framework -- 3. Vertical and horizontal co-ordination -- 4. Citizen participation -- 5. Future developments -- Notes -- Annex A. OECD regional topology -- Bibliography -- Selection of finnish web sites-- List of boxes -- List of tables -- List of figures.

This book reviews Finland's success in achieving balanced development over the past decade and assesses the challenges that it faces in maintaining this success. Given intense competition in both ICT and more traditional product markets, as well as rapid ageing of the population, it looks at how Finland might maintain and enhance the competitiveness of the regions that are the nation's economic drivers and how the country can promote innovation and entrepreneurship in intermediate cities particularly vulnerable to low cost competition. It also examines how Finland might facilitate growth in those regions that have potential for development, but so far have been less successful in exploiting their comparative advantages.