Regional development strategy implementation in the West Pomeranian Region

The paper presents the strategic implementation process of West Pomeranian Province development on the basis of an operational program. In the first part of the paper, the author describes the legal and organisational foundations of Polish regional policy during the transition period and the implementation action sequences of development strategies. A program for entrepreneurship and innovation support in the West Pomeranian Province was selected as the implementation measure to be analysed. Its goals, assumptions and selected instruments of implementation have been described. The paper ends with diagnostic and prognostic conclusions about self-governmental regional development.