REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT Knowledge, Image and Politics 1. Introduction: Institutionalist perspectives on...

REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTKnowledge, Image and Politics

1. Introduction: Institutionalist perspectives on the politics of public policy

2. Case study: Thatcherism and regional policy in Scotland

3. Comparative cases: Place branding of provincial cities

4. Survey: Knowledge and regional policy in European regions

Henrik Halkier, Aalborg University, [email protected]

Source: Inspired by inter alia Ham & Hill, Jenkins, Sabatier, Parsons, Winter – Elaborated on the basis of Henrik Halkier: Institutions, Discourse and Regional Development, Brussels: PIE Peter Lang, 2006, chapter 3.

Political environment

Public actors

Private actors

Discursive terrain

Implementing organisation

Political sponsor

Organisation

Policy design

Economic & socio-cultural environment

Public actors

Private actors

Cultural patterns

Discursive terrain

Policy target

Firms

Organisations

Public authorities

Citizens

PROBLEM DEFINITION

POLICY OUTCOME

POLITICS OF REGIONAL POLICY

Institutionalist policy analysis


CASE STUDY: Thatcherism andRegional Policy in Scotland

Prevailing interpretation* strategies change after 1979* from interventionism to liberalism

Research aims* examine changing SDA strategies* examine political sponsor strategies* examine changing policy implementation

Controversial example* industrial investment


SDA DTI / English assisted areaRegional problem

Uncompetitive firms, unemployment

Unemployment, late 1980s uncompetitive firms

Operational strategy

Support more competitive firms

Support all firms, late 1980s more competitive firms

Instruments * increasingly conditional* finance, organisation, information

* conditional* finance much reduced, organisation, (information)

Modes * increasingly proactive* predominantly discretionary* selectivity increasing

* reactive* automatic, then discretionary* more selective late 1980s

Implementation Integrated Fragmented



SDA DTI / English assisted areaRegional problem

Uncompetitive firms, unemployment

Unemployment, late 1980s uncompetitive firms

Operational strategy

Support more competitive firms

Support all firms, late 1980s more competitive firms

Instruments * increasingly conditional* finance, organisation, information

* conditional* finance much reduced, organisation, (information)

Modes * increasingly proactive* predominantly discretionary* selectivity increasing

* reactive* automatic, then discretionary* more selective late 1980s

Implementation Integrated Fragmented

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19761978198019821984198619881990New invested firms

Total gross expenditure

SDA investment activityIndex 100 = pre-Thatcher average

1979: last resort measure increased activity intensified appraisal public-private network



Inter-organisational Cooperation in City Branding

Comparing Aarhus & Aalborg, Denmark

Henrik Halkier & Anette Therkelsen

Forthcoming in Andy Pike (ed.): Brands and Branding Geographies, Edward Elgar 2010

Comparative cases:Place branding of provincial cities

Strategy market: selling place vs. building community place-making: city of words vs. city of stones

Commitment imperative vs. more/less important repositioning vs. reinforcement


Commitment

Strategy

Involvement

involvement -> strong commitment commitment -> holistic strategy

place-branding depending on many dimensions of inter-organisational cooperation

Comparative cases:Place branding of provincial cities


Survey: Knowledge and regional policy in European

regions

Empirical survey most important

organisation at most important meso-level

four most prominent policies

web-based survey by Susanne Bendtsen

181 regions snapshot becoming

wider/deeper

20/21

9/9

16/16

4/5

12/127/14

15/15

17/17

4/15

6/13

6/6

7/11

3/19

2/1010/12

5/7

4/4

8/12

6/11

2/8

6/1612/20


Relative importance of policy targets

Hardware Software Orgware

Auto ● ●●● ●●

Bio ●● ● ●●●

Food ●● ●●● ●●

ICT ●●● ● ●●

KIBS ● ●●● ●●

New media ●●● ●● ●●

Tourism ●● ●● ●●

All cases ●● ●● ●●

Source: EURODITE WP8 report


regions

Policy characteristics Lisbon-oriented strategies Multi-level governance Knowledge-intensive


Policy characteristics Lisbon-oriented strategies Multi-level governance Knowledge-intensive Knowledge-conservative? Inward-looking?

Relative importance of knowledge types in knowledge

interactions

Analytical ●

Synthetic ●●

Symbolic ●●

Analytical/synthetic ●

Synthetic/symbolic●

All three types


regions


Source: EURODITE WP8 report

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