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Innovation and creativity as a challenge for competitiveness: the case of Barcelona

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Innovation and creativity as a challenge for

competitiveness: the case of Barcelona

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Research questionsl What role has played

governance and strategic planning in the success of Barcelona Metropolitan Region (BMR)?

l What are the possibilities for the consolidation of a creative and knowledge-based society?

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Historical development path of the BMR

l The Configuration of a Cultural capital (19th century)

l The gap of francoism (1939-1979)

l The creation of the Barcelona model (1979-1995)

l Polst-olympic governance developments (1995-2006)

l Towards a creative knowledge region?

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The creation of the ‘Barcelona Model’ (1979-1992)

l Small interventions of urgent urban renewal

l Creation of wide consensus with civil society and creation of efficient governance institutions to manage the city combining participative and representative governance.

l Start of deindustrialization process

l All these elements were the basis for a project at a higher scale: the Olympic games of 1992

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Post-olympic governance developments (1995-2006)

l Increased role of private actors and market in the governance arrangements (partly because of the debt of the city after the games and the economic recession).

l Consolidation of the service economy and tourism inflows:

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Post-olympic governance developments

l Culture as a central element for economic growth changes the external image of the city

l Emphasis on the Knowledge economy, but in a context of deindustrialization and low productivity patterns

l Promotion of a great event based on culture: Forum de les cultures 2004

l Progressive degradation of civil society engagement in the governance mechanisms

l Lack of coordination between instittutions within the metropolitan region and at regional and national scales

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Perception of quality of life between creative knowledge workers in the Barcelona Metropolitan Region

Source: ACRE survey

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Event Main Urban developments

Universal Expo 1888 Regeneration of the HarbourDemolition of the military citadel and creation of the most relevant park of the city

Universal Expo 1929 Urbanisation of the mountain of Montjuich and creation of infrastructures for international events

Eucharist congress 1952 Urbanisation of the north of the city and creation of new neighbourhoods based on social housing for migrants from the countryside

Olympic games 1992 Regeneration of the second part of the coastline, creation of a new neighbourhood, and intervention in other parts of the regionCreation of ring-road and new communication infrastructures

Forum de les cultures 2004 Final coastline regenerationCreation of a new neighbourhood in a former deprived area

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Towards a creative knowledge city

We were a heavily industrialised city, we have suffered a major tertiarisation of the economy and now we bet for new sectors. We want to turn Barcelona in a large centre of cultural production

Jordi Hereu, Mayor of Barcelona, February 2008

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Evolution of governance perspectivesPeriod 1979-1992 1995-2006 2006- ?

Main objectives -New Centralities-Olympic games

-Improvement of tourism-Knowledge society

-Cultural industries-Social cohesion

Governance arrangements

-Wide consensus with civil society and private actors

-Gap with civil society -Strength of private actors in policy strategy

Reconstruction of bridges with civil society to improve social cohesion and cultural industries

Social consequences

Democratisation of urban development Improvement of neighbourhoods

-Conflict in neighbourhood renewal-Rise of housing prices

-Recuperation of creative milieus?-Improvement of quality of life

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Towards a creative knowledge cityl Shift in the discourse from ‘knowledge’ to ‘creativity’ and from economic

growth to citizenship and social cohesion.

l Consolidation of previous projects on knowledge economy

– 22@ district is starting actions to attract companies in creative and knowledge clusters: media, energy, ICT, biomedicine and design

– New projects as Biopol (biomedicine) or Creapolis (innovative business) are being started in other municipalities

l Creation of a new strategic plan of culture for the city with the participation of all the private and non-profit actors in the cultural sector. Culture understood as a resource for innovation and transformation of the economy

l Creation of new institutions for creative industries:

l Factories of creativity

l Centre for design

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Conclusionsl Since the democracy, Barcelona has adopted a

governance model based on long-term strategic plannig which is adaptable to new concepts and theories on urban growth.

l As we have seen, the model is in continuous change and it depends of the force of the different private, public and societal actors involved in each historic moment.

l In its recent history, Barcelona and at lesser extent its metropolitan region has bet for culture as a motor for growth, what fosters possibilites for the development of a creative economy.

l Nevertheless, an approach based on the metropolitan region as a whole is needed.