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Regional development is associated with a number of factors. It seems nowadays that there are two main approaches to that issue: necessity of increasing the competitiveness on the one hand, and aiming at the sustainable development on the other. Some authors belive that pursuit to improve competitiveness excludes sustainable develo pment, others do not share the opinion. However, it seems to be important not to oppos e these two ideas each other but to unite them. Recently, these two approaches: endeavour to i mprove the competitiveness and implemenentation of the sustainable development’s princi ples into the practice have been used more and more combined as an idea of sustainable competi tiveness. This paper aims to present an analysis of the chosen definitions and of the main terms describing competitiveness. It also discusses goals and definitions of sustainable deve lopment and other terms related to that concept in order to to find similarities between th ese two ideas, particulary at the regional level. Similarattributes for competitiveness and su stainability were identified as following: improvement of the quality of life and economic dev elopment (in case of competitiveness only in the material field), implementation of ecol ogical innovations and significant role of local and regional authorities. These two concepts are also strictly related to idea of regional resilience. Both, competitive and sustainable region s must be resilient. The article is divided into three main parts. The f irst presents definitions and factors of regional competitiveness. This is followed by a prese ntation of definitions and components of sustainable development. The third part then looks similarities between regional competitiveness and sustainability.

SIMILARITIES BETWEEN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND COMPETITIVENESS OF THE REGIONS – THEORETICAL APPROACH