This paper combines three major concepts: regional development platforms, business ecosystems and competitiveness policy. The framework of business and innovation ecosystems is gaining ground in the discussion of competitiveness and innovation policy. The framework challenges competitiveness and innovation policies because ecosystems are seen as highly self‐organising and self‐renewing systems. Is there still room for innovation and competitiveness policies? This paper focuses on ecosystem‐facilitating competitiveness policy at the regional level and argues that the emergence, growth and renewal of business ecosystems can be facilitated by a competitiveness policy focused on related variety platforms embedded in a regional innovation ecosystem. As a case illustrating this point, we present the strategic themes and development platforms in the Lahti urban region, which are constructed following the ecosystem theory. This paper contributes to the previous literature on regional development and innovation policy by presenting a policy framework for a modern competitiveness policy that is based on constructed competitiveness, development platforms and business and innovation ecosystem theory. For policy practice, this paper provides a real‐life example of a regional competitiveness strategy and the construction of a strategy that is based on the ecosystem frame.

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区域发展平台作为商业生态系统的孵化器。案例研究：芬兰拉赫蒂市区

本文结合了三大概念：区域发展平台、商业生态系统和竞争力政策。在竞争力和创新政策的讨论中，商业和创新生态系统的框架正在取得进展。该框架挑战竞争力和创新政策，因为生态系统被视为高度自我组织和自我更新的系统。创新和竞争力政策还有空间吗？本文侧重于区域层面的生态系统促进竞争力政策，并认为商业生态系统的出现、增长和更新可以通过专注于嵌入区域创新生态系统的相关多样性平台的竞争力政策来促进。作为说明这一点的案例，我们展示了拉赫蒂城市地区的战略主题和发展平台，它们是按照生态系统理论构建的。本文通过提出一个基于构建的竞争力、发展平台以及商业和创新生态系统理论的现代竞争力政策的政策框架，对先前关于区域发展和创新政策的文献做出了贡献。对于政策实践，本文提供了区域竞争力战略和基于生态系统框架的战略构建的现实案例。本文通过提出一个基于构建的竞争力、发展平台以及商业和创新生态系统理论的现代竞争力政策的政策框架，对先前关于区域发展和创新政策的文献做出了贡献。对于政策实践，本文提供了区域竞争力战略和基于生态系统框架的战略构建的真实案例。本文通过提出一个基于构建的竞争力、发展平台以及商业和创新生态系统理论的现代竞争力政策的政策框架，对先前关于区域发展和创新政策的文献做出了贡献。对于政策实践，本文提供了区域竞争力战略和基于生态系统框架的战略构建的现实案例。