REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES AND THEIR IMPACTS ON CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT POLICIES IN THE NORTHERN UK

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REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES AND THEIR IMPACTS
ON CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT POLICIES IN THE NORTHERN
UK
May, 28

• Ethem Pekin

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CONTENTS

• Introduction
• Employment
• RDAs
• Clusters
• Impacts of RDAs on Clusters
• Conclusions

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INTRODUCTION

• Economic Policy Making
• Global Competitiveness
• Knowledge Assets
• Cluster Strategies
• RDAs and RESs

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EMPLOYMENT

• European Level
• Regional Level
• In the UK
• In Northern UK

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EMPLOYMENT AT EUROPEAN LEVEL

• Articles 125-130 EC
• Luxembourg Job Summit
• EES, Guidelines, NAP, JER, Recommendations
• Lisbon European Council
• Stockholm European Council

To promote high level of employment
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EMPLOYMENT AT REGIONAL LEVEL

• EES and Regional Development
• Lacking skills
• Elderly
• Disabled
• Gender equality
• Job creation

all resources especially at regional and local
level shall be mobilized
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EMPLOYMENT IN THE UK

• In 2002
• GDP increase 1.7
• Labour productivity increase 1.6
• Employment rate 71.7
• Unemployment rate 5.1

The UK exceeds Lisbon Targets
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EMPLOYMENT IN NORTHERN UK

• 9 Regions, 3 Northern
• North East
• North West
• Yorkshire and the Humber

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RDAs

• History
• All About RDAs
• Strategies Action Plans
• Debates

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SOME HISTORY

• Policy proposals of Labour Party
• Regional Policy Commission
• Renewing the Regions Paper
• Issues Paper
• White Paper
• RDAs Act 98

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ALL ABOUT RDAs

• Business-led
• Non-departmental public bodies
• Strategic drivers of regional economic
  development
• Coordinate regional economic development
• Development of regional skills
• Main purposes
• Main functions

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STRATEGIES ACTION PLANS

• To formulate clear priorities
• To improve regional economic performance
• To point out steps to achieve them

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DEBATES ON RDAs

• Conflicting parts to be resolved over the time
• Two views regarding RDAs
• Structural Approach
• Strategic Approach

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CLUSTERS

• What is a Clusters?
• Cluster Policy
• Assessment of Clusters in the UK

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WHAT IS A CLUSTER?

• Geographic concentrations of interconnected
  companies, specialized suppliers, service
  providers, firms in related industries, and
  associated institutions in particular fields that
  compete but also co-operate

• Small group of people or things that are closely
  packed together

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CLUSTER POLICY

• A

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ASSESSMENT OF CLUSTERS IN THE UK

• A

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IMPACTS OF RDAs ON CLUSTERS

• Cluster Policy and the RDAs
• North East
• North West
• Yorkshire and the Humber

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CLUSTER POLICY AND THE RDAs

• White Paper Our Competitive Future Building the
  Knowledge Driven Economy
• Cluster Policy Steering Group
• Business Clusters in the UK A First
  Assessment
• White Paper Opportunity for All in a World of
  Change

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NORTH EAST

• Business Development Team
• Regional Competitiveness Project

• CREATIVE INDUSTRYCLUSTER
• win-win game
• Co-creative Dinners
• 8 Projects
• Commission

Creating prosperous future
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NORTH WEST

• Science Council
• Regional Science Strategy
• 16 Business Sectors

• BIOTECHNOLOGY CLUSTER
• Institutions
• Science Parks
• BioNow
• National Biomanufacturing Centre

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YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER

• 5 Main Clusters

• DIGITAL INDUSTRYCLUSTER
• Fast Forward Programme
• Innovation Awards
• E-Campus
• Internet Quarter

Alive with opportunity
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CONCLUSIONS

• Similarity between the Cluster Development
  policies of RDAs
• Each region has its own special characteristics
• Similarities are not leading to the formulation
  of similar policies

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Thank you for your listening!