1. REGIONAL STUDIES SPECIAL ISSUE
EURODITE WORKSHOP
REGIONAL STUDIES SPECIAL ISSUE
Newcastle April 2001
New Knowledge Dynamics, New Regional Policies? European Policy Trends and Implications
Conceptualising the rise of knowledge-oriented regional policy
RDAs and their policies: A top-down analysis
Economic innovation and public policy: A bottom-up analysis
Conclusion and perspectives
Henrik Halkier, Margareta Dahlström, Laura James,
Jesper Manniche, Lise Smed Olsen & Simone Strambach 1

2. Conceptualising the rise of knowledge-oriented regional policy
Table 2. Key characteristics of regional policy paradigms in Europe c
Dimension
Sub-dimensions
Industrial paradigm
Knowledge-economy paradigm
Territorial governance
Political governance
Variable (centralised)
Variable (becoming more decentralised)
Policy sponsorship
Centralised designation of assisted areas
Multi-level designation of assisted areas, decentral bottom-up initiatives
Strategy
General direction
Expansion/duplication of existing economic activities to boost volume
Modernisation of existing and creation of new forms of economic activity
Target institutions
Private firms
Private firms and regional system of e.g. innovation
Target capabilities
Hardware through boosting of physical investment
Software and orgware improved by increasing knowledge and relations between actors
Policy instruments
Resources
Finance
Information, organisation
Rules
Conditional
Conditional, unconditional
Knowledge impact
Knowledge types
Synthetic
Analytical, synthetic, symbolic
Knowledge phases
Exloitation
Exploitation, examination, exploration
Elaborated on the basis of COOKE and MORGAN, 1993; HALKIER and DANSON, 1997; AMIN, 1999; LAGENDIJK, 1999; HASSINK, 2001; RAINES, 2002; BENNEWORTH et al., 2003; HALKIER, 2006; BACHTLER and YUILL, 2007; MOODYSON et al., 2008; CREVOISIER and JEANNERAT, 2009. 2

3. TOP-DOWN SURVEY RDAs and their policies
Sponsorship:
Arm's-length, one sponsor
Strategies:
Competitiveness
Targets:
Organisations, information +
Instruments:
Knowledge-intensive
Knowledge impact:
Techno-managerial, cultural
* netværk udforsker regional vidensdynamik
* vidensdynamik i brancher og regioner
* survey af regional erhvervsfremme i EU

4. BOTTOM-UP ANALYSIS Economic innovation and public policy
Relative importance of policy governance EU
Nat
Regional/
local
Auto ● ●●
●●●
Bio
Food
ICT
KIBS
New media
Tourism
All cases
Characteristics of
influential policies
Multi-level governance
Knowledge-intensive
Knowledge-conservative?
Inward-looking?
* netværk udforsker regional vidensdynamik
* vidensdynamik i brancher og regioner
* survey af regional erhvervsfremme i EU

5. Knowledge dynamics and provisional
policy challenges
1. Further a wider range of knowledge
symbolic, demand, social variation, extra-regional
more knowledge assets available for development
support knowledge brokerage
2. Further combinatorial knowledge
new proximities, recombination
interdisciplinary education/training/capacities
importance of knowledge management
3. Evidence-based policy-making
Coordination: levels / policy areas / diverse actors
inspiration, not copy/paste
improved policy preparation/evaluation 5

6. For link to report, please email Henrik Halkier at 6