However, this conventional mechanism of economic recovery is changing, and firms are seeking ways to revitalize regional economies by taking advantage of their regional uniqueness to provide high-value-added products and services. The more proactively firms tackle changes in the environment and take advantage of the resulting business opportunities, the more solid the footing of the economic recovery.
As such activity spreads and the recovery becomes clearer, expectations of growth will gradually rise. It is even possible to envisage the emergence of a virtuous cyclical mechanism in which rising expectations of growth fuel further progressive activity by firms.