ABSTRACT
Switzerland, being a small and open economy, has been strongly integrated in international exchanges of goods and services for many decades. Although this is an accepted fact from an economic point of view, Switzerland’s perception of the structure and dynamics of its own territory remains inward-bound. However, over recent decades Switzerland has experienced the reorganization of its functional–territorial division of labour. The growing relevance of the knowledge economy is a driving force slowly altering regional development and spatial functional specialization.
