Stimulation of regional competitiveness

The article is devoted to the research of economic policy for stimulating regional compe­titiveness in conditions of macroeconomic insta­bility, spatial polarization and the conse­quences of the full-scale war in Ukraine. The relevance of the topic is determined by the need to modernize regional development mechanisms in the context of global challenges, in particular the demo­graphic crisis, institutional asymmetry, the digi­tal divide, and structural depletion of peripheral regions. The research is based on the hypothesis that an effective policy to stimulate regional competitiveness is possible provided that the European development vector is integrated with the values of security, sustainable development, institu­tional capacity, digital transformation of public administration, and differentiated consi­deration of spatial asymmetries between regions. The research methodology is based on general scientific and specialized methods, inclu­ding systemic, institutional, comparative, facto­rial, structural-logical, statistical, spatial, cluster, and graph analytical approaches. The research contains the results of a comparative analysis of the regionsʼ competitiveness of Poland, Lithua­nia, and Ukraine in the Lublin Triangle archi­tecture, it analyses geospatial differen­tiation, and identifies transformation vectors of regional development in the context of the war in Ukraine, in particular digital adaptation, demographic response, institu­tional mobile­zation, and mechanisms for stimu­lating inno­va­tion. A conceptual model for aligning sustainable development values with economic policy for managing competitiveness at the regional level is proposed. The results of the research made it possible to develop new con­ceptual approaches to assessing the effecti­veness of economic policy for stimulating regional compe­titiveness and to justify directions for its further improvement