1. The Geography of the Scottish Knowledge Economy
Professor Mark Hepworth
Local Futures
Presentation to the East of Scotland European Partnership Seminar
3rd November 2004

2. The presentation The knowledge economy agenda
The Scottish Enterprise report
Policy discussion
Successful knowledge economies deliver high earnings opportunities for all

3. North East: No place in the Premiership

4. South East: A third of the Premiership

5. Scotland: 3 out of 32 in the Premiership

6. The Knowledge Economy Agenda

7. Why the knowledge economy?
Consensus on nature of 21st century economic development
The global economy made it a zero option
UK Government’s vision and organising idea – Innovation Report
The Lisbon Summit – delivering the knowledge economy (2005 mid-point)

8. Definition and measurement
Dynamics of growth and specialisation: knowledge-innovation-knowledge
Policy – accelerate and widen out circle of innovation
Present – globalisation, ICT and the ‘knowledge society’
Nobel prize winners

9. The Four Pillars of the KE

10. Distributed Policy Model
Skills
Enterprise
Innovation
Infra-structure
Competition
National
Regional
Sub-regional
Local

11. City-Regions in the Knowledge Economy
KEY
Northern Way
Southern Way
Midlands Way?

12. Economic Policy Context
FEDS outlines the rationale for competitiveness in a global economy - knowledge driven growth
Smart, Successful Scotland identifies four challenges to sustainable growth
Productivity
Entrepreneurship
Learning and Skills
Digital connections
The Enterprise Network - promote global linkages, develop the business base, drive learning and skills
Coordination and partnership approach

13. Planning framework Building Better Cities & Cities Review
Cities are central to the Scottish economy
The National Planning Framework
Spatial planning frameworks and planning processes
Infrastructure (transport, housing, broadband etc.) as part of economic policy

14. The Scottish Enterprise Report

15. Aims of the Study
No geographical thinking in Scotland’s approach to the knowledge economy
A baseline geographical analysis of the knowledge economy
Spatial configurations for knowledge economy strategy
Ways forward

16. REA for Scotland, 2002

17. REA for the South East, 2002

18. REA for the North West, 2002

19. Regional economic performance

20. Eastern Scotland
Highlands & Islands

21. North Eastern Scotland
South Western Scotland

23. The Geography of the BKE in Eastern Scotland
Fife
Stirling
Clackmannanshire
West Lothian
East Lothian
Edinburgh City
Midlothian
Scottish Borders
Dundee City
Angus
Perth &
Kinross
Falkirk

24. The Scottish knowledge economy is uneven at the sub-national level.

25. The State of the Cities
Edinburgh
Glasgow

26. Aberdeen
Dundee

27. The drivers generating the patterns
Edinburgh outperforms all the Scottish cities in creating and attracting human capital.

28. Enterprising Cities

29. What’s driving performance in the business base?

30. 1. Winners and losers? – the spatial dynamics of the Scottish knowledge economy
Shifting patterns of growth favour the Central Belt, and the knowledge economy is being increasingly centralised especially in Edinburgh.

31. 2. Do Scotland’s city-regions play the same role as the core cities in driving the knowledge economy?

32. 3. Rural Scotland lags behind Rural England in the knowledge economy

33. 4. The public sector is major player in the knowledge economy
The business drivers are not firing outside of the three dominant cities – Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.

34. Social divides in the knowledge economy
Significant skills poverty in Glasgow and areas in the Central Belt will constrain participation in the knowledge economy (as is occurring in London).

35. Summary of analysis
Scotland – unrealised potential as a nation-region knowledge economy
Competitive big 3 cities – can this be maintained?
Rural knowledge economy – lagging England
Making the public sector a driver of the knowledge economy
Quality businesses, quality private sector jobs
Distributed policy model
City regions – the Scotland Way?