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Structure and strategy for regional learning and innovation
Professor Jørgen Amdam
Volda University College
2012
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Jørgen Amdam
• Professor of regional planning and development
• Volda University College +3000 students
• Education for the public sector and mass communication
• Volda – 8000 inh. – higher education for over 100 years.
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- 4%-3 til +3+ 4%
Endring i folketal 2006 – 20115 km ruteLokal og regional konsentrasjon
InnflyttingUtflytting
WickenIndustrialisation:EnglishFrench
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Structure and strategy for regional learning and innovation
CONTEXTSITUATION
John Friedmann, 1992:Empowerment
FRAGMENTATION
Storper 1997: The Regional World
TalkTrust
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Industries
Research and Education Public activity
Trippel HelixScandinavian Model
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Industry
PublicActivity
SivilSociety
Research and Education
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The civil society and business and industrial development
• The successful regions have a rich organisational life, the inhabitants take responsibility, there is good and open communication between key social actors, the political organisations and institutions enjoy popular support and they work for their region locally, regionally, nationally and internationally and in relation to sectors and organisations Egalitarian "independence culture”
• Regions that function poorly are characterised by "hierarchy" and "power centralisation", i.e. elites and routines have been established that are more concerned with controlling and restricting initiatives. The "third sector" (the civil society) is poorly developed and there is poor communication and co-operation between political bodies, market institutions and the
"third sector”. A "wage earner culture" with class conflicts
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Business Challenges
• Internationalisation• Market concentration • Changes in patterns -
from production to production-oriented services
• Market organisation of public activities
• Competition between regions
• The communicative society
• Recruitment of leaders and specialists
• New demands on regional communities as “total communities
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LINEAR INNOVATION
Research
Engineering
Production
Research
Engineering Production
DYNAMIC INNOVATIONMarket
Market
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Design – profit 50%
Equipment – profit 20%
Ship building – profit 2%
Ship building Møre and Romsdal
1= svært viktig, 2= viktig, 3=Ikkje viktig1= very important, 2= important 3= =
Institusjon Gjennomsnitt for bedriftene
Kundar 1,8Leverandørar 1,9INU-FSF 2,0Andre bedrifter i same bransje
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Lokal bank 2,1S og F fylke 2,4Innovasjon Norge 2,4FoU-miljø andre stader i landet R
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NHO 2,5Høgskulen i Sogn og Fjordane E
2,7
Kommunen bedrifta er lokalisert
2,7
Vestlandsforsking R 2,7
Konsulentar 2,8
Næringsutviklingsselskap i kommunen
2,8
Næringshagar 2,8
FoU-miljø i utlandet 2,8
Fjord Invest 2,9
Norges Forskningsråd
2,9
SIVA 2,9
Næringsparkar 3,0
Kunnskapsparken i Sogn og Fjordane
3,0
Partners in innovation(INU- bedriftene)
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Regional business and industry and challenges of knowledge
• Regions with a positive development have high internal powers of change, a high degree of open flow of knowledge between actors and a long tradition of growth (Nilsson 1998), often such that growth in some industries compensates for decline in others.
• The growth of new know-ledge and competence comes in the form of self-development in existing businesses and environ-ments, the transfer of knowledge between industries and companies, a high rate of establishing new companies based on knowledge and through the recruitment of young, well-qualified people.
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Public competence activity and its connection with significance for innovations in regional
business and industry • Do university and research environments result in the
establishment of companies and the development of
business and industry? • Is education and research activity important for regional
social and industrial development? • Is investment in special programmes the solution for
building innovative competence in business and industry? • Is the sector organisation in the public sector an obstacle
to regional innovation?
R&E and Industry Cooperation
• Education – 90 % of regional students work related BA-studies is at work in the region 3 year after exams.
• Practice in Industries
• Projects – 50 % Public founding – VRI– Marine – animation +++
• Networks
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Ålesund Knowledge Park
OFFSHORE SIMULATOR CENTER
Norwegian Maritime Competence Center
Rolls-RoyceRegionalCompanies
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Befolknings- og sysselsettingsutvikling med 2004 som referansepunkt, busette i Eiksundregionen.
Employment
Population
Eiksundregionen – folketalsendring, fødselsoverskot og nettoflytting.
International
National
Emigration
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NGOR&E
Network Challenges
• Is it possible to have common networks, or
• Specific networks related to activities and responsibilities?
• Who can be major stakeholders and why?Agencies,
Public act.
Local Communities
INDUSTRY
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Dialogue, trust and partnership ‑ strategies for
the development of regional competence
Knowledge
Relational
Mobilisation
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Strategies:• Production of knowledge that is related to the
region itself, to the business and industrial situation in the area - increase knowledge capital
• The capture and sieving of external knowledge that can help to increase the capability to meet new challenges and to implement changes - increase relational capital
• The linking of internal knowledge production and the grasping of knowledge externally into joint learning processes which further the development of the region as a special area - mobilise
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This requires of regional public and private actors:
Acceptance of long‑term development structures and strategies, and binding co-operation to achieve change and improve quality
Acceptance of an active involvement that aims to change the working methods of each individual actor, and the working methods of co-operating actors, in order to establish a total system that functions better.
Tilbaketrekking
Fragmentering
Lokalt valtutvikling ogomstilling
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Challenges to be met in regional development
Integrated national strategy to co-ordinate among other things educational, industrial and labour market policy is necessary.
Domain defences have to be dismantled, and innovation is needed that leads to the release of resources.
The centralised building of institutions leads to systems failure, that can only be repaired through local institutions and initiatives, and active learning processes at all levels. This requires an active development programme led and initiated from the bottom upwards and a more integrated national allocation system.
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What stimulates and prevents regionally initiated development
• Entrepreneurs - collective and private key individuals
• Networks and arenas
• External threats
• High local mobility of relevant knowledge and information
• Local identity
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Proactive work involves systematic differential treatment in order to reach concrete goals
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“Total” integration, is characterised by Cornett in Bengs (2002)
• The development of specific geographically defined systems of production such as industrial districts, clusters of industries, or systems of innovation.
• A system of urban networks defined according to specific functional links.
• The availability of a relevant regional infrastructure linking the analysed areas together.
• Last but not least, the intensity of intra-regional flows relative to outside flows can be considered the “conditio sine non quo” when we talk of a spatially integrated area.
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Fig. 3. Types of urban and rural regions. Urban-Rural
Focus
URBAN CONCENTRATION
RURAL STRUCTURE
MANUFACTURING (Focus on economic capital)
Big scale manufacturing regions
“Traditional” rural areas - production based on land and nature – agriculture, fisheries, mining, mass tourism …
KNOWLEDGE (Focus on social capital)
Diversified metropolitan regions
“Flexible” rural areas – diversified, focus on life quality for inhabitants
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Urbanconsentration
Spatial small scaleclusters
TransactionEfficiency andFlexibility
Knowledgeaccumulation
Big scaleIndustry regions
DiversifiedMetropoleanRegions
Small and flexibleIndustryregions
Urbanisedrural areas
Traditional rural areas