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Interorganizational collaboration among governments is given great attention in the literature, but systematic investigation of how the perceptions and motivations of local officials influence the configurations of collaborative relationships is conspicuously absent . The dilemma for local actors working on economic development is that cooperation with other jurisdictions provides tremendous potential benefit once it turns out to be successful, but it also poses greater risks than cooperation in most other areas. Thus predispositions and orientation toward cooperation or competition with other jurisdictions can play a critical role in implementing regional collaboration. Extant work assumes cooperation motivates collaboration fails to capture how competitive motivation might also support the emergence of regional governance mechanisms. This paper explores the relationships between competitive/cooperative motivations and interlocal collaboration network based on a network survey conducted in the Orlando metropolitan area. We apply quadratic assignment process QAP matrix regression analysis to examine how dyadic ties of cooperation and competition, along with the effect of community characteristics, affect the structures of policy network for economic development. By comparing estimated coefficient with sampling distribution of coefficients from all the permuted datasets, regression results essentially indicate whether the influences of perceived competition/cooperation on network exchange. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]