Regional development: Challenge for public policy

2008 ◽  
pp. 14-23
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Regional Development

From Networks to Clusters and Back Again

2011 ◽  
pp. 160-183
Author(s):  
Martin Perry
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Cluster Formation ◽  
Business Development ◽  
Policy Intervention ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Trade Promotion ◽  
Effective Cluster

Since the mid-1990s, trade promotion and regional development policy in New Zealand has aimed to promote business growth by encouraging various forms of interfirm cooperation. This chapter reviews the case for public policy intervention in cluster formation and highlights policy insight, drawing on the author’s evaluations of the ways that New Zealand policymakers have sought to encourage business cooperation through networks, alliances, and clusters. The chapter makes a case for cluster intervention but cautions against too much optimism in the contribution that clusters can make to business development. By explaining the particular influences behind successful projects in New Zealand, it is hoped that researchers and policymakers can obtain a better understanding of the conditions needed for effective cluster-based cooperation.

Future public policy guidelines for the sustainable development of Guaviare, Colombia for the year 2035

foresight ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luis Camarena ◽  
Francisco Javier Javier Osorio Vera ◽  
Hector Heraldo Heraldo Rojas Jimenez ◽  
Ernesto Borda Medina ◽  
Juan Camilo Camilo Esteban Torregroza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Strategic Change ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Sustainable Regional Development

Purpose This paper aims to propose future public policy guidelines (FPPG) in sustainable regional development for Guaviare (Colombia) – a territory affected by environmental and social distress – for the year 2035. Design/methodology/approach Following collective action theory and sustainable regional development literature, a foresight exercise was conducted using site focus groups and semi-structured interviews with local participants to identify future strategic change drivers and the most relevant social actors for the attainment of economic, social and environmental development in the Guaviare through FPPG. Findings The findings suggest that the development of public policies regarding building consensus around Guaviare’s economic, environmental and social issues, reducing conflict between the region’s cultural and environmental ways, decreasing isolation from the centers of decision-making, increasing the transparency of public institutions and reducing insecurity to attract investments are all crucial to attaining sustainable regional development. Originality/value Interdisciplinarity is implicit in the local perspectives on the problem that impedes sustainable development in San José del Guaviare. The paper’s main contribution is the long-term vision that breaks away from the traditional short-termism in public policy guidelines in a Latin American context. Methodologically, the significant contribution is the convergent alignment of specific foresight methods toward public policy guidelines’ analysis and design processes.

scholarly journals Coordination for Policy in Transition Countries: Case of Croatia

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 117-159
Author(s):  
Anamarija Musa ◽  
Zdravko Petak
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Transition Countries ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Coordination Problem ◽  
Preliminary Research

The formulation and implementation of public policy depends on the coordination capacities. In recent decades the need for coordination has increased due to the fragmentation caused by NPM reforms, decentralisation processes, the proliferation of the cross-cutting issues, as well as increased globalisation, Europeanisation, and professionalization. The coordination problem in Croatian administration, similarly to other transition countries, is critically important but understudied. This paper is based on a preliminary research on coordination in Croatian public administration with regard to policy formulation and implementation of three policies – regional development policy, anticorruption policy and e-government policy, based on the interviews conducted with higher civil servants and public officials. A special emphasis is given to the role which various actors play in coordination, as well as the structures Government employs in order to coordinate. The research shows that the development of coordination instruments in Croatia suffers from inefficiencies and is greatly influenced by politically driven considerations.

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