DERREG Developing Europe’s Rural Regions in the Era of Globalisation An interpretative model for better anticipating and responding to Challenges for regional development in an evolving international context. WP4: Work package 4: Capacity building, governance and knowledge systems Deliverable 4.1 Overview of learning and innovation support strategies (June 2010) Wiekbe Wellbrock and Dirk Roep (Eds.) Wageningen University With contributions of : Emilija Kairyte (NeVork), Maura Farrell and Marie Mahon (NUIG), Wioletta Frys and Birte Nienaber (USAAR), Michael Kriszan, Robert Nadler and Joachim Burdack (IfL), Lola Dominguez Garcia (WUR) A project funded by the European Union Framework 7 Programme Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities ii CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION............................................................................................ 1 1.1 RESEARCH OUTLINE WP4 ................................................................................ 3 1.2 OUTLINE CONTENT OF D 4.1............................................................................. 5 2 GOVERNANCE OF RURAL REGIONAL LEARNING AND INNOVATION .............. 7 2.1 TOWARDS A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK OF THE GOVERNANCE OF RURAL REGIONAL LEARNING AND INNOVATION ................................................................................................... 7 2.1.1 How can learning regions contribute to rural development? .................................. 9 2.1.2 Strategic backbone of a learning region ............................................................11 2.1.3 A revised conceptual framework ......................................................................13 2.1.4 Research methodology ...................................................................................16 2.2 METHODOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR D4.1 .........................................................20 2.2.1 Research Design ............................................................................................20 2.2.2 Research questions ........................................................................................21 2.2.3 Research method ...........................................................................................21 2.2.4 Data analysis.................................................................................................22 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ‘ALYTUS COUNTY (LT)’, EMILIJA KAIRYTĖ .............. 23 3.1 LEARNING AND INNOVATION SUPPORT POLICIES AND STRATEGIES .................................23 3.2 LEARNING AND INNOVATION SUPPORT STRUCTURE (FACILITIES )...................................33 3.3 SYNTHESIS : EXAMPLES OF OPERATIONAL INTERFACES , PARTNERSHIPS AND ARRANGEMENTS ..38 4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ‘COMARCA DE VERIN (S)’, LOLA DOMINGUEZ GARCIA ................................................................................................................... 43 4.1 LEARNING AND INNOVATION SUPPORT POLICIES AND STRATEGIES .................................43 4.2 LEARNING AND INNOVATION SUPPORT STRUCTURE (FACILITIES )...................................49 4.3 SYNTHESIS : EXAMPLES OF OPERATIONAL INTERFACES , PARTNERSHIPS AND ARRANGEMENTS ..52 4.3.1 Regional rural programmes .............................................................................52 5 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ‘DRESDEN (G)’ MICHAEL KRISZAN, ROBERT NADLER AND JOACHIM BURDACK ............................................................................ 57 5.1 LEARNING AND INNOVATION SUPPORT POLICIES AND STRATEGIES .................................57 5.1.1 Rural development policies..............................................................................58 5.1.2 Regional development policies .........................................................................60 5.1.3 Innovation and learning policies.......................................................................61 5.2 LEARNING AND INNOVATION SUPPORT STRUCTURE (FACILITIES )...................................63 5.3 SYNTHESIS : EXAMPLES OF OPERATIONAL INTERFACES , PARTNERSHIPS AND ARRANGEMENTS ..67 iii 6 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ‘ROSCOMMON (I)’ MARIE MAHON AND MAURA FARELL ....................................................................................................... 73 6.1 LEARNING AND INNOVATION SUPPORT STRATEGIES ..................................................73 6.1.1 Regional-level development perspectives ..........................................................75 6.1.2 County Level Development Strategies...............................................................77 6.2 NETWORK OF CAPACITY -BUILDING ORGANISATIONS .................................................78 6.2.1 Examples of operational interfaces, partnerships and arrangements .....................81 6.2.2 Publicly-supported initiatives at local level.........................................................83 6.3 DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS .......................................................................84 7 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ‘SAARLAND (G)’ WIOLETTA FRYS AND BIRTE NIENABER .................................................................................................. 87 7.1 LEARNING AND INNOVATION SUPPORT POLICIES AND STRATEGIES .................................87 7.1.1 Rural development policies..............................................................................88 7.1.2 Regional development policies .........................................................................91 7.1.3 Learning and innovation policies ......................................................................93 7.2 LEARNING AND INNOVATION SUPPORT STRUCTURE (FACILITIES )...................................98 7.3 SYNTHESIS : OPERATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS AND NETWORKS .....................................103 8 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ‘WESTERKWARTIER (NL)’ WIEBKE WELLBROCK AND DIRK ROEP ............................................................................................... 111 8.1 LEARNING AND INNOVATION SUPPORT POLICIES AND STRATEGIES ...............................111 8.2 LEARNING AND INNOVATION SUPPORT STRUCTURE (FACILITIES ).................................116 8.3 SYNTHESIS : EXAMPLES OF OPERATIONAL INTERFACES , PARTNERSHIPS AND ARRANGEMENTS 118 9 SYNTHESIS............................................................................................... 125 10 REFERENCES............................................................................................. 131 iv Tables TABLE 5-1 PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTES IN AND AROUND THE OHTL REGION ..........................65 TABLE 6-1 NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN , 2007-2013 – DETAILS OF PRIORITY PROGRAMMES ........74 TABLE 6-2 OVERVIEW OF LEARNING AND SUPPORT STRUCTURES IDENTIFIED WITHIN THE WEST REGION AND COUNTY ROSCOMMON ....................................................................................78 TABLE 7-1 PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTES IN THE SAARLAND ..............................................101 TABLE 8-1 PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTES IN AND AROUND THE WESTERKWARTIER ....................117 Figures FIGURE 1-1 CASE STUDY AREAS INVOLVED IN DERREG (DERREG, 2008) 4 FIGURE 2-1 THE TRIPLE HELIX THESIS (E TZKOWITZ AND LEYDESDORFF , 2000) 7 FIGURE 2-2 GOVERNANCE OF RURAL REGIONAL LEARNING AND INNOVATION: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK 14 FIGURE 2-3 DIVERSE ACTORS AND PROCESSES ENGAGING IN RURAL REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT (S OURCE : ROEP ET AL . 2009) 15 FIGURE 5-1 ORGANISATIONAL SCHEME - LEARNING AND INNOVATION POLICIES AND STRATEGIES IN THE DIREKTIONSBEZIRK DRESDEN 58 FIGURE 5-2 ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE ‘U PPER LUSATIAN LAND OF HEATHS AND PONDS ’- REGION 69 FIGURE 8-1 RELEVANT REPRESENTATIVES AND POLICIES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION (NL) 112 FIGURE 8-2 EXAMPLES OF OPERATIONAL INTERFACES IN THE WESTERKWARTIER (NL) 119 Boxes BOX 4-1 REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES 2007-2013 45 BOX 7-1 RURAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY (G): FEDERAL MINISTRY FOR FOOD , AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER PROTECTION 88 BOX 7-2 RURAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY (G): EAFRD SAAR 89 BOX 7-3 RURAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY (G): ILEK 89 BOX 7-4 RURAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY (G): REK 89 BOX 7-5 RURAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY (G): UNESCO-POLICY OF THE BIOSPHERE RESERVE BLIESGAU 90 BOX 7-6 REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY (G): EUROPEAN LEVEL 91 BOX 7-7 REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY (G): STATE LEVEL 91 BOX 7-8 REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY (G): LEADER AND LEADER GROUP (S) 93 BOX 7-9 REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY (G): FEDERAL MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND RESEARCH 96 BOX 7-10 REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY (G): FEDERAL MINISTRY OF ECONOMY AND TECHNOLOGY 96 BOX 7-11 REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY (G): SAARLAND MINISTRY OF ECONOMY AND SCIENCE 97 BOX 7-12 REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY (G): GERMAN FEDERAL MINISTRY FOR THE ENVIRONMENT , NATURE CONSERVATION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY 97 v BOX 7-13 REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY (G): CENTRE FOR PRODUCTIVITY AND TECHNOLOGY ZPT 98 BOX 8-1 REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT POLICIES (NL) 113 BOX 8-2 PROVINCIAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN GRONINGEN (NL) 114 BOX 8-3 RURAL DEVELOPMENT POLICIES (NL) 115 BOX 8-4 DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME WEST GRONINGEN (NL) 115 BOX 8-5 LEADER ACTION PLAN WESTERKWARTIER (NL) 121 BOX 8-6 GREEN KNOWLEDGE COOPERATION (NL) 122 BOX 8-7 RURAL REGIONAL LEARNING AND INNOVATION PROCESSES SUPPORTING INITIATIVES (W, NL) 123 vi 1 INTRODUCTION Globalisation 1 increasingly frames the challenges for regional development in Europe. As the European Commission has observed, “globalization is seen to touch every walk of life – opening doors, creating opportunities, raising apprehensions”, such that “our response to globalization has moved to the heart of the EU policy agenda” (CEC, 2007). The delicate balance of threats