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Regional Development Agencies
European trends and experiences
Professor Henrik HalkierAalborg University, [email protected]
Akdeniz University, Antalya, 19 April 2010
Henrik HalkierAalborg University, [email protected]
1. RDAs: Great expectations 2. European diversity
• Governance• Strategies• Instruments
3. Current and future challenges
OUTLINE
RDAs:GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Arm's-length sponsorship• long-term strategy• private-sector support• specialist staff
Flexible instruments
• finance, infrastructure
• advice, networks, training
• proactive implementation
Tailor-made strategies
• specific problems
• local firms focus
• integrated policies
RDA
EUROPEAN DIVERSITYThe 2007 RDA survey
Empirical survey
• most important organisation at most important meso-level
• four most prominent policies
• web-based survey
• 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
EUROPEAN DIVERSITYThe 2007 RDA survey
Sponsorship
• arm's-length, one sponsor
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
EUROPEAN DIVERSITYThe 2007 RDA survey
Sponsorship
• arm's-length, one sponsor
Strategies
• competitiveness 0
40
80
120
160
200
Inte
rreg
iona
leq
ualit
y
Equ
ality
and
com
petit
iven
ess
Com
petit
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EUROPEAN DIVERSITYThe 2007 RDA survey
Sponsorship
• arm's-length, one sponsor
Strategies
• competitiveness
Instruments
• knowledge-intensive
0
50
100
150
200
250
Aut
horit
y
Org
anis
atio
n
Org
anis
atio
n/in
form
atio
n
Info
rmat
ion
Info
rmat
ion/
finan
ce
Fin
ance
CURRENT AND FUTURE CHALLENGES
Political sponsorship
• clear about development goals
• other sponsor goals also important
• clear about degree of autonomy
Tailor-made strategies
• realism about global trends
• secure legitimacy via partnership
• clients are source of innovation
Policy instruments
• use local and international resources
• learning more efficient than copying
• focus on facilitating knowledge dynamics
