摘要：Recently, Martin Shields used the occasion of his MCRSA Presidential Address to ask a panel of region-al policy scholars and practitioners, “Why don’t people pay more attention to regional policy analy-sis?” (Macke, et al., 2003). Shields noted that regional science has demonstrated a clear and sustaining com-mitment to policy-relevant research. The field has also contributed important new insight for policy makers in such areas as regional cluster studies and regional economic modeling. Despite this record of achieve-ment, Shields finds that regional policy decisions are often made without consulting regional scientists.
