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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, halkier@ihis.aau.dk
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
Henrik Halkier, Aalborg University, halkier@ihis.aau.dk
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
Henrik Halkier, Aalborg University, halkier@ihis.aau.dk
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
CASE STUDY: Thatcherism andRegional Policy in Scotland
Henrik Halkier, Aalborg University, halkier@ihis.aau.dk
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
CASE STUDY: Thatcherism andRegional Policy in Scotland
Henrik Halkier, Aalborg University, halkier@ihis.aau.dk
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
Henrik Halkier, Aalborg University, halkier@ihis.aau.dk
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
Henrik Halkier, Aalborg University, halkier@ihis.aau.dk
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
Henrik Halkier, Aalborg University, halkier@ihis.aau.dk
Relative importance of policy targets
Hardware Software Orgware
Auto ● ●●● ●●
Bio ●● ● ●●●
Food ●● ●●● ●●
ICT ●●● ● ●●
KIBS ● ●●● ●●
New media ●●● ●● ●●
Tourism ●● ●● ●●
All cases ●● ●● ●●
Source: EURODITE WP8 report
Survey: Knowledge and regional policy in European
regions
Policy characteristics Lisbon-oriented strategies Multi-level governance Knowledge-intensive
Henrik Halkier, Aalborg University, halkier@ihis.aau.dk
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
Survey: Knowledge and regional policy in European
regions
Henrik Halkier, Aalborg University, halkier@ihis.aau.dk
Source: EURODITE WP8 report
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