urban municipalities providing leadership in regional economic development: new wine in old bottles?...
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Urban Municipalities Providing Leadership in Regional Economic Development: New Wine in Old Bottles? Old Wine in New Bottles? Just Stop Whining and Do](https://reader037.vdocuments.mx/reader037/viewer/2022110304/551b36d6550346d41a8b51a9/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Urban Municipalities Providing Leadership in Regional Economic Development: New Wine in Old Bottles? Old Wine in New Bottles? Just Stop Whining and Do It?!
MNL Urban Summit, St. John’s, March 1-2, 2013
Rob Greenwood, Ph.D.Executive Director, Harris Centre
![Page 2: Urban Municipalities Providing Leadership in Regional Economic Development: New Wine in Old Bottles? Old Wine in New Bottles? Just Stop Whining and Do](https://reader037.vdocuments.mx/reader037/viewer/2022110304/551b36d6550346d41a8b51a9/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Outline
• Strategy vs Structure• Moving forward• Your role?• Discussion
2
![Page 3: Urban Municipalities Providing Leadership in Regional Economic Development: New Wine in Old Bottles? Old Wine in New Bottles? Just Stop Whining and Do](https://reader037.vdocuments.mx/reader037/viewer/2022110304/551b36d6550346d41a8b51a9/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Regional Development: Strategy vs. Structure
Strategies:• Infrastructure• Human resource development• Social Development / Healthy Communities• Investment attraction• Entrepreneurship / SMEs / Innovation• Creative Class / Place Making• Clusters / Learning Regions• Community/Regional Development: place
based; capacity building
![Page 4: Urban Municipalities Providing Leadership in Regional Economic Development: New Wine in Old Bottles? Old Wine in New Bottles? Just Stop Whining and Do](https://reader037.vdocuments.mx/reader037/viewer/2022110304/551b36d6550346d41a8b51a9/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Regional Development Strategies
• Place Making: an integrated approach – driven from the local / regional (?) level Identity, Civic Engagement, Public Space,
Amenities matter – a culture of planning? your identity / narrative: “insulates you
from selling out” “make a covenant with your place” build on what you value; discover it; be
true to it: what do you want to hug?!
4
![Page 5: Urban Municipalities Providing Leadership in Regional Economic Development: New Wine in Old Bottles? Old Wine in New Bottles? Just Stop Whining and Do](https://reader037.vdocuments.mx/reader037/viewer/2022110304/551b36d6550346d41a8b51a9/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Regional Development Strategies:no “place” without economic drivers • You’ll have nothing to hug if you don’t have products or services to export (except as cottage country)
• There are products and services that can be successfully produced in our regions
• Labour market shortages = high productivity is job one
• Functional regions enable pooling of labour, business, markets, governance capacity
5
![Page 6: Urban Municipalities Providing Leadership in Regional Economic Development: New Wine in Old Bottles? Old Wine in New Bottles? Just Stop Whining and Do](https://reader037.vdocuments.mx/reader037/viewer/2022110304/551b36d6550346d41a8b51a9/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Regional Development: Strategy vs. Structure
Structures:• Federal and Provincial governments:
departments / agencies• Municipal / County / Voluntary Regional
Collaboration• Industry Associations / Cluster
Organizations• Community / Regional “Third Sector”
organizations
![Page 7: Urban Municipalities Providing Leadership in Regional Economic Development: New Wine in Old Bottles? Old Wine in New Bottles? Just Stop Whining and Do](https://reader037.vdocuments.mx/reader037/viewer/2022110304/551b36d6550346d41a8b51a9/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Organizational Structures for Development:Political Power vs. Political Will
Political Power
Political Will
Regional
Provincial
Federal
Denzil Doyle
![Page 8: Urban Municipalities Providing Leadership in Regional Economic Development: New Wine in Old Bottles? Old Wine in New Bottles? Just Stop Whining and Do](https://reader037.vdocuments.mx/reader037/viewer/2022110304/551b36d6550346d41a8b51a9/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
8
Specialized Knowledgevs. Local Knowledge
Specialized Knowledge
Local Knowledge
Regional
Provincial
Federal
![Page 9: Urban Municipalities Providing Leadership in Regional Economic Development: New Wine in Old Bottles? Old Wine in New Bottles? Just Stop Whining and Do](https://reader037.vdocuments.mx/reader037/viewer/2022110304/551b36d6550346d41a8b51a9/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
9
Check list of Organizational Capacity forRegional Development
• Fiscal Resources• Human Resources
• Leadership• Skilled Staff• Community Participation
• Legal Authority• Local Democratic Accountability/Legitimacy• Geographic Area• Time
![Page 10: Urban Municipalities Providing Leadership in Regional Economic Development: New Wine in Old Bottles? Old Wine in New Bottles? Just Stop Whining and Do](https://reader037.vdocuments.mx/reader037/viewer/2022110304/551b36d6550346d41a8b51a9/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Moving Forward• Firms learn to manage transaction costs
what do you do by yourself? what to you “buy” from others? what do you partner on: strategic alliances, consortia,
long-term supply chain relationships?
• Are communities the same as firms? “urban” municipalities don’t match functional regions
(can’t do everything in house) you are partnering with neighbours now are there opportunities being missed that new partnering
“tools” would help with? esp. with changed landscape of gov’t. support
10
![Page 11: Urban Municipalities Providing Leadership in Regional Economic Development: New Wine in Old Bottles? Old Wine in New Bottles? Just Stop Whining and Do](https://reader037.vdocuments.mx/reader037/viewer/2022110304/551b36d6550346d41a8b51a9/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Charters? Accords? Covenants?
• Remember the Viking Trail Tourism Accord?
• Inter-municipal joints councils, coalitions, joint service arrangements MNL surveys of shared services: lots! Fredericton Alberta: Brooks & County of Newell; Palliser
Economic Partnership
• Formalized: BC Regional Districts; Quebec MRCs (Municipal Regional Councils)
11
![Page 12: Urban Municipalities Providing Leadership in Regional Economic Development: New Wine in Old Bottles? Old Wine in New Bottles? Just Stop Whining and Do](https://reader037.vdocuments.mx/reader037/viewer/2022110304/551b36d6550346d41a8b51a9/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Charters? Accords? Covenants?
• Confirm who is at the table• Clarify purpose; being deliberate• Establish operating principles• Not establishing a formal structure, but a
vehicle for collective action• Driven by the members (not by fed./prov.
government(s); they may help facilitate; sustainable without them)
• Build – more – trust• Commit: sign your name, for your community,
matters12
![Page 13: Urban Municipalities Providing Leadership in Regional Economic Development: New Wine in Old Bottles? Old Wine in New Bottles? Just Stop Whining and Do](https://reader037.vdocuments.mx/reader037/viewer/2022110304/551b36d6550346d41a8b51a9/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Priority Matrix: start with achieveable common needs
Impa
ct
High
Low
Ease of ImplementationHard Easy
![Page 14: Urban Municipalities Providing Leadership in Regional Economic Development: New Wine in Old Bottles? Old Wine in New Bottles? Just Stop Whining and Do](https://reader037.vdocuments.mx/reader037/viewer/2022110304/551b36d6550346d41a8b51a9/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Do you want to make history, while we still can?
• The demographic reality is looming; we have 15 years to work with
• We have major projects generating opportunities
• We are rich in resources, that can be managed sustainably
• We love this place• If our urban municipalities don’t show
leadership, it’s not going to happen14
![Page 15: Urban Municipalities Providing Leadership in Regional Economic Development: New Wine in Old Bottles? Old Wine in New Bottles? Just Stop Whining and Do](https://reader037.vdocuments.mx/reader037/viewer/2022110304/551b36d6550346d41a8b51a9/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
15
Can you do it?Will you do it?
If not you, who?