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A successful story …
Regional Policy Making : Reflections on the Basque Country Experiences and Future Challenges
Jon AZUAEUNIP 2008, Donostia.
1. A successful story: 30 years of radical transformation.
2. What has brought us up to here? 3. Building the future: Sources of
wealth and well-being for the Basque Country … and for the world. The Road Map for policy makers
1. A successful story: 30 years of radical transformation.
80’s: TOUGH economic, social and political crisis.
high unemployment (25%) collapse of basic industries obsolete infrastructures
80’s: triumph of the neo-liberal focus in the world context: “the best industrial policies are the one that don’t exist”
30 YEARS FOR A RADICAL 30 YEARS FOR A RADICAL TRANSFORMATIONTRANSFORMATION
1980: beginning of Basque self-government
IN THIRTY YEARS EUSKADI HAS BECOME A NEW COUNTRY. FROM A DECADENT AND OBSOLETE ECONOMY, IT'S TURNED INTO A POTENT, VENTURESOME AND COMPETITIVE CENTER OF BUSINESS
• GDP has grown during the last decade above that of Spain and the EU
• 75% of production is exported (50% in medium/high technology products)
• Unemployment has diminished drastically (from 25% to 4,7 %)
• First in Spain in terms of income per capita
• Above the European average in terms of income per capita (136 /100)
Tech Desert
DURING THE 80's, THE BASQUE ECONOMY UNDERWENT A PROCESS OF INTEGRAL RESTRUCTURING FOLLOWING RECESSION
TODAY:
a. 7th country in the “Europe 15” and 17th in the World in terms of GDP per capita
b. 2nd in the World in terms of life expectancy
(80 years) after Japan.
b. Among the first 10 countries in EDUCATION
Among the first 10 countries in WELFARE
. With a clearly superior economic behavior to that of Spain… and EUROPE; thanks to 30 years of radical transformation
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX (UN):
2. How have we got here?
DOMINANT IDEAS IN THE PAST
Economy of scale Centralised and unique
industrial and regional policies The best industrial policy: the
one that does not exist Complete
separation/confrontation State-Enterprise
Exclusive Picking winners “Viva el MERCADO”
(prominence to the market) Tripartite competition: USA-
Japan-Europe Free rein to International
Multilateral Organisations Economy first … then
WHAT WE BELIEVED IN … AND DID
Interdependence, small is beautiful, posible and essential
De-concentration of regionalised microeconomic policies
“Comprehensive” strategy for competitiveness in solidarity, as from the innovative reinvention of the manufacturing industry
Public-private and public-public partnerships
All industry matters Transformed public leadership,
with committed participation of entrepreneurs
Multiple competition / New players Guiding principle: each country is
unique. Its own and differentiated strategy
Towards a EUROPE still to be built A socio-economic model in permanent evolution An integrated, fair and competitive social welfare network INDUSTRIAL strength, source of innovation,
technological development, entrepreneurship and management
Reorganisation of public administration, federal and participatory democracy
Public enterprise Aligned vision and public policies Permanent learning ( in/ from especially abroad) Interdependence: Internationalisation and localisation
SELF-GOVERNMENT
Power-Commitment-Responsibility
CHOICEFree
decisions. The right and
risk of making
mistakes
Leading a long process…Leading a long process…
reorganize an A.P
Industrial re-conversion
Sectoral policies
WELFARE NETWORK
VisionCompetitiveadvantage
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10 strategic vectors
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Competitiveness and SOCIALInnovation
Strategy, Innovation and
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1. A relatively well-defined vision towards the creation of a welfare space, with its own
voice, within a Europe under construction.
2. Public-public and public-private commitment-association, as from leadership
and public involvement in a context of “shared” planning.
3. Support for the MAIN DRIVER: INDUSTRY, valuing its wealth-generating capacity in
the long run.
4.Unity of microeconomic and social strategies and solutions towards what is
currently defined as “competitiveness in solidarity”.
5. Belief in the Glokal need/reality.
6. Self-government: our ability to decide.
Euskadi: Keys to the Success
3. Building the future: Sources of wealth and well-being for the Basque Country … and for the world. The Road Map for policy makers
INDUSTRIAL POLICY
Anti- manufacturing risk
Simplification of Knowledge economy ,creativity economy
Failure of Macroeconomics as the only guiding principle for success,mediation and differentiation.
The free-market mirage
Limitations of sectoral approachPublic-private confrontation
Industrial relations confrontation
The easy road of centralised negotiation
ESTANCO administrations
The danger of the Elite’s UNIQUE WAY OF THINKING
CRITICAL BARRIERS TO OVERCOME…
COMPETITIVENESS
Our strategic resources?BUILDING FROM AN ECONOMIC VECTOR
Demography, Aging,
Migration
HEALTH Sciences
leasure, turism, entertainment
Educatiuon/ culture-
Training for life
Offerings from the city, the
territory
Creative and intelligent
Renewable energies
Environment
Revalorisation and
efficiency
Sustainability path
• Infrastructures• Logistics• Water, Energy, Utilities• Employment/Services• Business Models, etc• Architecture, Design, etc• Art-Territory
Re-clusterisation of economic activity, its Knowlegde and
strengthen our GLOKAL strategy
Specialised and innovative manufacturing
NEW PLANS
Continuous leadership
•“n” NEW CLUSTERS• Re-invent organizations• Incorporate “outsiders” to administration, enterprises and facilitating organisations
Permanent
MAGIC PROCESSES
Innovative platform
Susteinability
Social innovation
Industries
Public-public andPublic-private
alliance
SOCIAL Network/platform Self-government
Institutionalise country
Learning from
new playersHONESTY• No shortcuts•Strategic society
… and the next key steps?
Sesión 13-2007 Jon Azua. Caso País Vasco14
Beware!Discriminatory
relinquishment of economic concert(investment and
investment policy)
Institutional leadership
New ideasThink Tank
Intelligent territory
POLICY MAKING UNIQUE VALUE PROPOSITION COMPLETE AND NON-SECTORAL STRATEGIES COMPETITIVENESS - TERRITORY- REGIONAL
DEVELOPMENT DEMAND THE SAME WELFARE SPACE
OUR STRATEGIC RESOURCES ARE OUR OWN CHALLENGES AND DIFFICULTIES
NEITHER PAST FRAMEWORKS, NOR PLAYERS, NOR INSTRUMENTS ,USED IN THE PAST,ARE VALID FOR THE DISTINCTIVE FUTURE OF TOMORROW
COOPETITIVE LEADERSHIP GLOKAL STRATEGIES