scholarly journals Regional planning and sustainability: Towards integration in the Uk and EU

Spatium ◽  
2004 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Glasson
Keyword(s):  
Regional Planning ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Strategic Environmental Assessment ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Eu Structural Funds ◽  
The Uk ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Sustainability Appraisal

A key premise of the paper is that the regional level of planning is a particularly appropriate level for the integration of biophysical and socio-economic development issues. The UK, and the European Union (EU) more generally, have witnessed some important developments in regional planning practice over the last decade which have sought to encourage such integration. The paper reviews examples of innovative applications of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Sustainability Appraisal (SA), in relation to EU Structural Funds, the new generation of UK Regional Plans, and UK Multi-Model Transport Corridor studies. It concludes with an appraisal of progress to date towards the goal of a more integrated approach.

scholarly journals Financing of Smart Growth in Less Developed Regions on the Example of Poland

e-Finanse ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorota Murzyn
Keyword(s):  
Smart Growth ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Public Intervention ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Eu Structural Funds ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe aim of this paper is twofold. First, the smart growth concept is examined with a focus on challenges associated with applying this concept in the less developed regions. Second, the impact of EU structural funds on smart growth in Poland is analyzed at the regional level with a view to contributing to the debate on public intervention in this area. The research questions are as follows: “Is the concept of smart growth, as postulated by the European Union, well suited to the less developed regions?” and “Whether and to what extent do EU funds contribute to achieving smart growth in Poland?”Smart growth has accelerated after 2007, which could suggest a significant impact of EU structural funds, whose allocation to measures supporting innovative activity rose markedly after 2007. However, among the various factors influencing regional development processes, the impact of structural funds was not as strong as might be expected, which was confirmed by further analysis.

Academic engagement with small business and entrepreneurship: Towards a landscape of practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 095042222110344
Author(s):  
Oswald Jones
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Academic Engagement ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Business Research ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
Eu Structural Funds ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu

Academic engagement with small business and entrepreneurship was facilitated by the availability of European Union (EU) funding, which also stimulated the emergence of a small business and entrepreneurship (SBE) ‘community of practice’. Gradually, the SBE community developed into a ‘landscape of practice’ as small business research moved towards maturity. Furthermore, the SBE landscape of practice has coalesced around three core concepts: entrepreneurial learning, social networks and social capital. EU funding was the catalyst for many SBE academics in the UK to engage with practitioners involved with starting and managing their own businesses. The UK’s exit from the EU will inevitably mean that universities will no longer have access to EU Structural Funds. This has major implications for the UK SBE community’s engagement with practice as well as for entrepreneurs and business owners who have benefitted from a range of programmes designed to improve the performance of smaller firms.

A Tale of Different Realities

2019 ◽  
pp. 262-280
Author(s):  
Pedro Nuno Rebelo Pavão ◽  
João Pedro Almeida Couto ◽  
Maria Manuela Santos Natário
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Policy ◽  
Regional Governance ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Innovation Dynamics ◽  
Innovation Capacity ◽  
And Cluster Analysis ◽  
Private Actors

This chapter aims to identify the determinants that affect innovation capacity at regional level in Europe. It proposes modelling the territorial innovation capacity and identifies relevant factors with influence on the innovation capacity at a regional level. The chapter uses the Regional Innovation Scoreboard database and cluster analysis to detect behavioral patterns in terms of innovation performance in European regions. The results show that innovation capacity is related to regional governance, and particularly regional autonomy, regional control of innovation policy, influencing the affectation of structural funds, and the region's location within the European Union. Cohesion policy criteria is also a significant factor, demonstrating the adequacy of the European regional policy's new programming regarding innovation policy. These results point to the importance of the participation of regions in formulation, and implementation bottom-up strategies to develop innovation dynamics and develop partnerships with other public and/or private actors.

scholarly journals From smart specialisation to smart experimentation

2014 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maximilian Benner
Keyword(s):  
Regional Policy ◽  
Evolutionary Economics ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Entrepreneurial Discovery ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Smart Specialisation ◽  
Eu Structural Funds ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Relational Economic Geography

AbstractThe idea of smart specialisation has gained high prominence in the discourse about the regional policy of the European Union (EU). In the coming program period from 2014 to 2020 it is expected to be a major pillar of EU structural funds. The notion of smart specialisation incorporates some basic principles of evolutionary economics and centers on the idea of an entrepreneurial discovery process of new trajectories on the regional level. It does not, however, sufficiently take into account the relevance of individual agents, their actions, and their relations with each other in the identification, creation, development, and destruction of technological and economic trajectories. For this, a focus on micro-level dynamics is needed that provides the base for experimentation. Therefore, this paper proposes the new concept of smart experimentation. This notion aims to complement smart specialisation. It is anchored not only in evolutionary economics, but also in relational economic geography.

scholarly journals A balanced approach: Brexit from political and business perspectives

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 804-816
Author(s):  
Răzvan Hoinaru ◽  
Mihnea Năstase
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Value At Risk ◽  
Risk Sharing ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu

Abstract There is a considerable amount of publications written on rolling back the EU supra state, national sovereignty regain, and strategic (mis)conceptions for analysing Brexit scenarios for both the UK and the EU. Many articles present a unilateral point of view with a tendency to be normative. The presentation of only one-sided political, historical, and business perspectives can be very dangerous, limiting understanding and constructive approaches. This also happens with macro-economic analyses that are used fit for purpose. David Cameron’s political calculation to call for a referendum regarding the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union has had complex ramifications. With causes that have led to the British citizens’ decision that range from multiple crises in the European Union, member states’ inability for burden and risk sharing, to the lack of trust portrayed by European institutions and a confusing internal rhetoric. With a City of London remaining undecided and continuously evaluating the value at risk of Brexit, and in the absence of a new European financial center, it is important to make sense of the arguments of both in and out supporters. Thus, this article attempts to present a more integrated approach, spanning across politics, trade, private businesses and social attitudes. This paper looks beyond international relations between nations and takes into consideration the international relations between corporations and their business strategies.

Development Finance in the Baltic States and the Process of Europeanization

2021 ◽  
pp. 253-282
Author(s):  
Olga Mikheeva ◽  
Egert Juuse
Keyword(s):  
Eastern European ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
External Financing ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Development Finance ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Eu Structural Funds ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The Eu

The Central and Eastern European (CEE) region, where European structural funds make up the lion share of national budgets, provides an opportunity to study how “development financing” is defined and operationalized in the context of dependency on external financing from the European Union (EU). The three Baltic republics (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) represent a region with a particular socio-political history, similar economic structures and equally similar asymmetrical relations with the EU, which makes the entire notion of development finance institutions quite different from existing “strategic” qualities attributed to promotional banks as discussed in current literature. We aim to demonstrate that policy trajectories, largely shaped by the EU, and especially an overdependence on EU structural funds, result in a set of incentives that hinder the development of a more strategic approach to economic policies and policy-related finance in particular. We also argue that bureaucratic competences developed within such a context of external financing resemble a “managerial” type of Development Finance Institutions rather than “strategic” investing agents.

scholarly journals Research and Innovation Transfer in the Field of PPP Applied to Urban Regeneration Actions and Policies

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 282-290
Author(s):  
Carmelina Bevilacqua
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Innovation Transfer

The European Union has recognized the centrality of community in economic development processes by stressing the role of the cities in delivering smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. The European Commission has recently published a study on how cities use ERDF to make their cities a better place to live and work [. One of the most engaging results of the study is the variable geometry of strategies in place to achieve urban and territorial cohesion through the implementation of integrated approaches. The area-based type of intervention dominates many of the practices, especially those in deprived areas, because of social, economic and environmental factors. Physical regeneration is still a major driver in creating multi-stakeholder cooperation in the integration of policies. There are relatively few cases in which the place-based approach was combined with a people-based approach and even fewer where ERDF and European Social Fund (ESF) cross-funding was developed [2]. Even the urban dimension in the EU cohesion policy is not a new issue, the way in which the Europe 2020 intends to ensure integrated approach in the sustainable urban development is quite new because it entails both thematic concentration and involvement of the community. According to the Commissions proposals, there are several ways to support sustainable urban development with the Structural Funds: Operational programmes, Integrated Territorial Investment (ITI), Community-Led Local Development, financial instruments (like Jessica and Jeremie) by enhancing new forms of Public Private Partnership. The paper reports some interesting findings of the CLUDs project with respect the role of no-profit organization in different forms of Public Private Partnerships used to regenerate urban districts in the Metropolitan Area of Boston. The research funded by IRSES Marie Curie Actions has created an international network of 4 EU universities (Reggio Calabria, Rome, Salford and Helsinki) and 2 US universities (Northeastern University of Boston and San Diego State University) in research and innovation transfer in the field of PPP applied to urban regeneration actions and policies.

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