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Thematic Workshop Local Economic Development

Thematic Workshop Local Economic Development. Thematic Workshop “Local Economic Development” URBACT Annual Meeting Liverpool, 14-15 November 2005. Thematic Workshop Local Economic Development. Economic development

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Thematic Workshop Local Economic Development

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  1. Thematic Workshop Local Economic Development Thematic Workshop “Local Economic Development”URBACT Annual Meeting Liverpool, 14-15 November 2005

  2. Thematic Workshop Local Economic Development • Economic development • a major dimension for regeneration of less favoured urban areas = creation of wealth, • in relation with other components of urban life (housing, infrastructures, safety…) • generated by the BUSINESSES located in the city territory.

  3. Thematic Workshop Local Economic Development • Local • the dimension of a neighbourhood in terms of disadvantaged neighbourhood, • the dimension covering the territory of the city as a whole, • the interaction between developed and disadvantaged parts of the city.

  4. Thematic Workshop Local Economic Development • Instruments the cities need • information on their business community • information on local business requirements, • interface with the business community,

  5. Thematic Workshop Local Economic Development • Traditional support instruments • For the big businesses tailor made services on request, • For the small businesses collective support instruments on: • access to finance, • market information, • management skills. • How to create more businesses in less favoured areas?

  6. Thematic Workshop Local Economic Development • Identify a list of economic projects rooted in the area: • in relation with the local business association(s), • in partnership with the City departments • that may impact on economic development: • infrastructures, safety, culture, heritage…

  7. Thematic Workshop Local Economic Development Objective of the Cross-cutting Thematic Working Group (CTWG): • Gather and capitalise the various findings of URBACT networks in the field of local economic development

  8. Thematic Workshop Local Economic Development Method: • Interlinking • possible fields of activities for local economic development • with • economic development instruments

  9. Local Economic Development in ECO-FIN-NET (Leipzig) Main Objective: • Identity, analyse and further develop innovative instruments for the support of the local economy by financial assistance to SME Economic issues: • How can local authorities support SME-development their neighborhoods by improving cooperation between public bodies, SMEs, service providers and financial institutions • Improving access to finance e.g. by reducing / covering handling costs and risks for small credit volumes to small / micro enterprises • Public SME funding instruments: e.g. grant schemes, public investment or micro loan programs • Advise and service offers and networks

  10. Local Economic Development in Regenerando(Reggio di Calabria) Main Objective: • Search for local public interventions in the field of employment creation, new job opportunities, human capital and economic prosperity in order to face unemployment and social exclusion Economic issues: • Active preventive measures for unemployed people • Create new jobs, support and incentive entrepreneurship • Use of high technology in service of local development and employment (risk or opportunity?): high tech start ups, eBusiness, eLearing and ICT skills, eServices • Networks / partnerships for producing and spreading innovation, diffusing the use of ICT as well as livelong learning and training. • Development Potential and opportunities through irregular work • Social inclusion and policies for occupational growth

  11. Local Economic Development in Partner4Action (Liverpool): Main Objective: • Use of the instrument of Public Private Partnership (PPP) for urban regeneration processes. Economic issues raised: • Fostering education and training facilities and services by PPP • PPP projects in for industrial and commercial (re-)developments • Support and develop, modernize and improve competitiveness of traditional industries / commerce • Knowledge economy, innovation, support/introduce new technologies • Attract and set up entrepreneurial activities • Provide public subsidies • Real estate / property market problems • Develop stable and functional mixes in economic structure • Town centre management, image and marketing strategies, BIDs,

  12. Local Economic Development in STRIKE (Dutch Ministry for the Interior): Main Objective: • Promote knowledge economy on urban level by joint actions between local, regional, national and EU actions; role of cities and urban regions in the knowledge economy Economic issues raised: • Changes in urban system caused by knowledge economy, creating new “winners” and “losers” • Social segregation by knowledge economy and relation between economic performance and equity, poverty and social exclusion • Support strategies for European centers of excellence and smaller, non-metropolitan cities to develop specific niches / specializations • New opportunities for entrepreneurs able to find niches and mobilize resources (importance of “entrepreneurial climate”) • Attraction, image and quality of live as key determinants to attract innovative and competitive enterprises and knowledge workers • Promote creation of new knowledge; promote application of knowledge, attract knowledge workers, develop new growth clusters

  13. Local Economic Development in Cultural Industries (Lille): Main Objective: • How to use the cultural assets of cities and regions for economic development and urban regeneration? Economic issues raised: • Economic dimension of cultural activities and creative industries as driving forces for urban regeneration • Reap benefits from cultural / creative industries for urban economy? • Culture as important economic asset and economic potential and not a primarily subsidized and money-consuming activity • How to promote local cultural industries and foster cultural activities • Economic clusters / networks of creative industries • Cultural industries as driving force for knowledge intensive and creative economy with focus innovation and competitiveness • Culture / creativity necessary conditions for flourishing economy • Culture as integral part of urban redevelopment projects

  14. Local Economic Development in I.S.N. (Manchester): Main Objective: • Promoting inclusion by the creative and innovative use of ICT Economic issues raised: • Business development and role of ICT for tackling economic restructuring, promotion of employment and fostering social inclusion • Develop capacities and skills needed to access new employment, training and cultural opportunities offered by information society • Developing new businesses, especially in new business sectors • Business support for SMEs in applying ICT and new technologies for getting more competitive • Clusters and networking of SMEs, technological/scientific institutes and service providers for innovation dissemination and application • Provide technological infrastructure (e.g. Broadband) • Assure high skills of workforce and access of citizens to ICT

  15. Local Economic Development in UDIEX- UDIEX Alep (Venise): Main Objective: • Reflect on diversity, integration and inclusion Economic issues raised: • Fighting long-term and youth unemployment as well as discrimination in the labor market, e.g. by employment support institutions • Enterprise development, business promotion, services for SMEs, business incubators, mentors / tutors, • Entrepreneurship and self-employment, e.g. for ethnic minorities or other disadvantaged groups • Financing projects for enterprise development (e.g. micro credits) • The role of social economy or social enterprises • Cultural diversity and urban regeneration, culture and tourism as potentials for economic development • The role of ICT for economic development and social inclusion • Training and qualification of labor and entrepreneurs

  16. Local Economic Development in Regenera (Lyon): Main Objective: • Integrated urban development with bottom-up approach and focus on co-production of all stakeholders, with concentration on areas where underprivileged live, on immigrants and on the role of women Economic issues raised: • Measures for undiscriminating inclusion of people in economy (via training, qualification, job creation, ethnic economy etc.) • Reinforcing support of private sector investments and activities for integrating and developing coherent links to their immediate environment or hinterlands • Contribution of urban regeneration projects to strengthen economic activity in deprived areas • Strengthen and create economic activities that are open to people with limited qualifications

  17. Local Economic Development in Securcity (Rotterdam): Main Objective: • Improvement and effectiveness of policies and actions to combat the (perceived) insecurity in the participant cities Economic issues raised: • Encourage and establish retail and business communities to locate and stay in deprived areas (high crime and lack of security) • Secure and clean environment as a precondition for business development; Safety in business and shopping areas • Joint cooperation projects between local retail and business communities and municipal departments • Business improvement districts (BIDs) as local partnership between local business community and local authority that develops and takes forward a project benefiting trading environment and public realm • Improvement of image of neighborhoods by marketing / communication

  18. Local Economic Development in C.H.O.R.U.S (Bastia): Main Objective: • Physical regeneration of urban sites by valorizing cultural heritage and linked to that economic, social and cultural problems of the valorisation of built cultural heritage Economic issues raised: • Combining heritage preservation with training, qualification, employment insertion and social inclusion • Specific training courses for heritage restoration for young people with integration problems (two objectives employment inclusion and guarantee specialized workforce • Improve the qualification and training • Access of local handicraft enterprises to public renovation market • Sustainable and intelligent use of cultural heritage as resource for economic development (e.g. tourism, identity, image)

  19. Local Economic Development in Phyre (Kassel): Main Objective: • Instruments on physical urban renewal with a specific priority on integrated approaches (social, economic and physical) Economic issues raised: • Economic development and employment promotion will play a specific role, but has not been addressed by the networks work yet Urbanitas (Anderlecht): Main Objective: • Analyze and define problems of “urban dislocation” (ruptures) and its physical, economic and social consequences and thus discuss and develop strategies for fighting against Economic issues raised: • Behavioral, economic, identity-based dislocations, social exclusion • property speculation

  20. Composition of the CTWG

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