31 resultados para Regional policy development

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This thesis analyses what local community theatre activity means to an area and its residents, and whether this kind of activity is meaningful. The objective was to explore whether and how community art can help urban areas to move in the direction of sustainable development: whether art can be part of regional policy development work. Hakunilan Kultsa was founded in 2003. It is an Urban II, European Union project and part of the Community Iniative Programme 2001-2006, financed by the EU. Hakunilan Kultsa is also a co-operation between Vantaa city council's culture and youth services. The project encourages Hakunila residents of different ages to take part in versatile art and cultural intrests in the Hakunila youth centre. People have the opportunity to participate in theatre, expression, arts, dance, performing arts and writing groups. One of the main aims is to found a sustainable community theatre in the area. The thesis examines what effects Hakunilan Kultsa has had so far. Inquiry form and thematical interviews have been used as research methods. Interviews and questionnaires were gathered between Autumn 2004 and Spring 2005. The whole process lasted from Spring 2004 until Spring 2006. The author also made participatory observations during the research process which in turn affected the conclusions. The thesis also deals with associated topics such as urban programmes, sustainable development, Hakunila as a suburban area, resident stimulation, and community thetare work. Hakunilan Kultsa has proved its importance. Based on the enquiries and interviews, the project has effectively presented the possibility for art forms to become hobbies. There is no cultural, age or economical discrimination. The easily accessible site and the low threshold principle make it easy for people to participate. The community theatre has improved the area's public image, increased participation and initiative, and given a voice to the community.

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This study focuses on the integration of eco-innovation principles into strategy and policy at the regional level. The importance of regions as a level for integrating eco-innovative programs and activities served as the point of interest for this study. Eco-innovative activities and technologies are seen as means to meet sustainable development objective of improving regions’ quality of life. This study is conducted to get an in-depth understanding and learning about eco-innovation at regional level, and to know the basic concepts that are important in integrating eco-innovation principles into regional policy. Other specific objectives of this study are to know how eco-innovation are developed and practiced in the regions of the EU, and to analyze the main characteristic features of an eco-innovation model that is specifically developed at Päijät-Häme Region in Finland. Paijät-Häme Region is noted for its successful eco-innovation strategies and programs, hence, taken as casework in this study. Both primary (interviews) and secondary data (publicly available documents) are utilized in this study. The study shows that eco-innovation plays an important role in regional strategy as reviewed based on the experience of other regions in the EU. This is because of its localized nature which makes it easier to facilitate in a regional setting. Since regional authorities and policy-makers are normally focused on solving its localized environmental problems, eco-innovation principles can easily be integrated into regional strategy. The case study highlights Päijät-Häme Region’s eco-innovation strategies and projects which are characterized by strong connection of knowledge-producing institutions. Policy instruments supporting eco-innovation (e.g. environmental technologies) are very much focused on clean technologies, hence, justifying the formation of cleantech clusters and business parks in Päijät-Häme Region. A newly conceptualized SAMPO model of eco-innovation has been developed in Päijät-Häme Region to better capture the region’s characteristics and to eventually replace the current model employed by the Päijät-Häme Regional Authority. The SAMPO model is still under construction, however, review of its principles points to some of its three important spearheads – practice-based innovation, design (eco-design) and clean technology or environmental technology (environment).

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This study focuses on regional innovation strategy (RIS) and sustainability aspects in selected regions of European Union (EU) countries. It is known that RIS helps a region to innovate locally and to compete globally and it is considered as one of the main policy tools of the EU for innovation support at a regional level. This study is conducted to explore the existence and adoption of RIS in different regions of selected EU countries, and to highlight and compare regional RIS characteristics. The study is also aimed at identifying the factors that characterise the formulation and implementation of RIS as well as the problems associated thereof. In this study, six regions of EU countries are considered: Päijät-Häme Region (Finland); London Region (United Kingdom); Mid-West Region (Ireland); Veneto Region (Italy); Eastern Region (Poland); and West Region (Romania). Data and information are collected by sending questionnaires to the respective regional authorities of these selected regions. Based on the gathered information and analysis, RIS or equivalent strategy document serves as a blueprint for forwarding innovative programmes towards regional sustainability. The objectives of RIS in these regions are found to be dependent on the priority sectors and state of the region’s development. The current environmental sustainability aspects are focused on eco-design, eco-products, and eco-innovation, although each region also has its own specific aspects supported by RIS. Likewise, regional policies typically follow the RIS yet translated in various sectoral focus or priority areas. The main enhancing factors supporting RIS among selected regions have some similarities and variations; among others, some regions are strongly supported by EU while others have support from own regional agencies, organisations and professional networks. RIS implementation is not without challenges and despite the differences in challenges, almost all of reviewed regions consider financial resource as a common problem. Generally, it is learned from this study that RIS and regional sustainability are reinforcing each other mutually. In this study, the strong focus is given towards environmental sustainability in the regions although regional sustainability also includes economic and social aspects. A well-focused and prioritised RIS is beneficial for regional sustainable development.

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In Finland, European Union membership and economic globalisation have changed the position of regions from closed territorial systems to nodes of open international networks. The increasing complexity of cities as globalised knowledge centres and functionally specialised and diversified rural areas, and on the other hand growing disparities between prosperous urban cores and lagging peripheral areas are also essential features in contemporary regional development. These trends have produced new needs to promote mutual dialogue between cities and the countryside in western market economies. Urban-rural interaction is an idea which was developed in the late 1990s within regional policy to pull together these new challenges to regional development and handle cities and the countryside as a whole. The aim of my study is to conceptualise the idea of urban-rural interaction, explain the phenomenon theoretically, clarify past and present urban and rural development and analyse regional policies from the interaction angle. The ultimate purpose is to illustrate the existence and nature of particular interaction policy in a globalising society. The general method is discourse analysis, which I use in three cases: Central Finland, South-Ostrobothnia and South-West Finland. Theoretically I have a two-dimensional approach. On the first hand I use World-System theory to explain how the global economy is moulding urban and rural structures at the regional level. On the other hand I use regime theory to explain local political actions and practises between cities and the countryside under the overlapping pressures deriving from reformulated regional structures and policies.

Adaptation to globalisation in Finland has been carried out by strengthening urban centres. The stress in regional policy has been in urban development. The development of the countryside has mostly been implemented by a separate rural policy. At the end of the 1990s and early 2000s Finnish cities have actually shown themselves to be competitive in global markets. The drawbacks of the new growth centre policy have been the sparse network of prosperous cities and their weak spreading effects, which have hindered comprehensive regional development. Tensions between urban and rural areas have also deepened. In this situation the interaction policy is used as a way of balancing development and moderate conflicts within the regions. From this point of view urban-rural interaction can be seen as a way of tackling the challenges of globalisation.

On the other hand the results emphasise that actors involved in regional development still believe, although the hegemonic discourse is on urban policy, that there are opportunities to stimulate progress in the countryside as well. In the situation where regional authorities control development resources, rural development can be successful only if rural actors manage to establish fruitful relationships with their urban partners. This is also the weakness of the programme-based regional policy. If rural municipalities or other actors are for any reason incapable of building development regimes with cities, the offers of interaction policy will be useless.

The problem of the interaction policy is that the focus and methods of it have so far been rather underdeveloped. In order to improve the efficiency of the interaction policy, further research should concentrate on the social processes which define the position of cities and the countryside as partners of interaction, and practises which promote or prohibit the possibilities of developing the interaction policy. The efforts to define different contents of urban-rural interaction or promote interaction projects should not have such an important role in the future as they have had so far. Instead, the focus of interaction policy should be on questions such as how to manage the political tensions between town and country and how to create a positive atmosphere for regional policy where the needs of urban and rural development are promoted equally.

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This thesis is dedicated to enhancement and development of Imatra`s logistics potential in order to increase its key parameters and improve the efficiency of the region. To find out the most promising logistics projects was proposed a tool “integral-matrix analysis” which enables to make the priority among the list of proposed projects. Description and functionality of the tool are explained in detail. As a result of analysis, the list of priority projects for the development of the region is presented. Project with the greatest potential is implemented in the thesis work. In conclusion, recommendations for the further development of economic potential of the region are given. The thesis is basically focused on literature review, overlook of secondary and primary data (including the results of the interviews, which were carried out among companies that represent the logistics market). Primary data was collected in interviews with the representatives of the companies, who regularly use logistics services. Total effects that make various Russian regions and companies on the Finnish logistics is summed up and discussed.

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Mediatoimialalla eletään murrosvaihetta. Erityisesti sähköisen median alalla uusien ansaintalogiikoiden tunnistaminen ja kehittäminen muodostuu yhä tärkeämmäksi kilpailukyvyn kannalta. Digi- ja maksutelevision tuomat muutokset tämän hetkiseen ansaintamalliin tuovat mukanaan huomattavia haasteita ja sitä kautta myös mahdollisuuksia. Myös muiden sähköisten medioiden rooli tulee kehittymään tulevien vuosien aikana. Internet on jo tällä hetkellä mobiilisti saatavavilla ja television mobiiliratkaisut tekevät tuloaan vauhdilla. Työn tavoitteena on luoda tietojohtamisen malli ja työkalut eli innovaatiopolitiikan viitekehys, jolla MTV Media voi muuttuvassa ja fragmentoituvassa mediakentässä säilyttää edelläkävijyytensä ja innovatiivisuutensa uusia tuotteita ja palveluita kehitettäessä. Työssä luodaan kirjallisuustutkimuksen perusteella malli innovaatiopolitiikan kehittämiseen ja arvioidaan valittujen työkalujen soveltuvuutta yrityksen toiminnassa. Teoreettiseksi innovaatiopolitiikan viitekehykseksi valitaan Nonakan mukaeltu malli tiedon luomisenyhdistämisestä. Nonakan mallin avulla luodaan MTV Medialle oma innovaatiopolitiikan viitekehys. Viitekehykseen sopivia työkaluja esitellään ja niiden sopivuutta viitekehykseen arvioidaan. Lopuksi viitekehystä tarkastellaan teorian ja käytännön näkökulmista MTV Median innovaatiopolitiikan kehittämisessä.

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Kandidaatintyön tavoitteena on tutkia EU:n 27 jäsenvaltion elintasojen eroja. Tutkielma on suoritettu käyttäen apuna viimeisempiä tilastollisia tietoja jäsenvaltioiden taloudellisten tilanteiden kehittymisestä. Jäsenvaltiot on jaettu työssä kahteen pääryhmään: EU-15 maihin, eli vanhoihin jäsenvaltioihin sekä uusiin jäsenvaltioihin, joita on tällä hetkellä 12. Elintasoerojen tutkimiseen työssä on käytetty mm. ostovoimakorjattua bruttokansantuloa, valtion velan osuutta BKT:stä, kuluttajahintojen inflaatiota, työntuottavuuden muutoslukuja, työttömyysastetta sekä suhteellisen hintatason muutosta jäsenvaltioissa. Tutkielmassa analysoidaan eri elintasomittareilla koottuja taulukoita sekä pyritään selvittämään niiden avulla jäsenvaltioiden todellisia elintasoeroja. Lisäksi työssä tutkitaan syitä elintasoerojen taustalla sekä niiden vaikutusta Euroopan unionintoimintaan. EU:n jäsenvaltioiden välillä on suuria elintasoeroja, jotka johtuvat esim. sosiaalisesta ja taloudellisesta eriarvoisuudesta. EU-15 maiden talouskasvu on hidastunut, mutta maiden elintaso on silti korkea. Uusien jäsenvaltioiden elintaso on vielä selvästi alhaisempi, mutta niiden siirtymätaloudet kasvavat voimakkaasti. EU pyrkii aluepolitiikan avulla kaventamaan elintasokuilua jäsenvaltioiden välillä.

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Diplomityön tavoitteena oli sanomalehtipaperin kysyntään ja tarjontaan vaikuttavien tekijöiden identifiointi ja analysointi. Nämä tekijät käytiin yhteisesti läpi skenaarioiden avulla. Aluksi kuvattiin teollisuuden ala ja esiteltiin tärkeimmät alaa kuvaavat mittarit. Analyysi tehtiin Porterin kilpailuteorian tekijöiden pohjalta. Työssä listattiin yksittäiset tekijät, jotka vaikuttavat sanomalehtipaperin kysyntään ja tarjontaan. Näistä tekijöistä valittiin tärkeimmät ja niiden pohjalta rakennettiin skenaarioita. Skenaariot kuvaavat erilaisia mahdollisia tulevaisuuksia.Kysyntä kuten myös tarjonta on jakautunut epätasaisesti maailmassa. Alueelliset erot ovat hyvinkin merkittäviä. Tästä johtuu laajamittainen kaupankäynti eri alueiden välillä. Käynnissä oleva paperiteollisuuden konsolidoitumisprosessi auttaa vähentämään sanomalehtipaperin hinnan ja tarjonnan heilahtelua. Tämä puolestaan johtuu alan keskittymisestä ja järkevästä kapasiteetin hallinnasta.Diplomityö korostaa sanomalehtipaperin tuottajien vastuuta tarjonnan lisäämisessä. E-median uhkaa tai mahdollisuutta on myös spekuloitu ja kysynnän alueellisen kysynnän kehitystä on analysoitu. Diplomityö antaa ehdotuksia erilaisiksi tulevaisuuden kehitysvaihtoehdoiksi. Sanomalehtipaperin kysyntä tulee kasvamaan maailmanlaajuisesti, tuotanto tulee siirtymään lähemmäksi markkinoita, kaupankäynti Aasiaan tulee kasvamaan ja yrityksen tulevat keskittymään viisaaseen kapasiteetin hallintaan.

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At the time of moving towards knowledge-based economy, countries pay much attention to innovations by making them a central issue in countries’ innovation policy development. Innovations are influenced much by the institutional environment, in which they are created. That is why exploration of National Innovation Systems, as an important part of such an environment, became central in works of different researchers all over the world.

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Diplomityön tavoitteena oli selkeyttää ja yhtenäistää case-yrityksen asiakaspalveluprosesseja kuvaamalla ne ja kehittämällä niitä. Case-yhtiönä oli seudullinen elinkeinoyhtiö, joka tarjoaa asiakkailleen tietointensiivisiä asiantuntija- ja neuvontapalveluita. Diplomityön lopputuloksena oli tarkoitus luoda yhtenäiset asiakaspalveluprosessimallit case-yritykselle. Tutkimuksessa vastattiin kirjallisuuskatsauksen avulla kysymyksiin, kuinka asiakaspalveluprosesseja voidaan kehittää ja millä menetelmillä prosesseja voidaan kuvata. Tämän jälkeen tutkittiin, miten case-yritys voi kehittää asiakaspalveluprosessejaan soveltamalla näitä menetelmiä. Selvisi, että palveluprosessin kehittäminen edellyttää käytännössä palvelun tuotteistamista, joka voidaan jakaa kolmeen osa-alueeseen: 1) palvelun määrittäminen ja standardointi, 2) palvelun ja asiantuntijuuden aineellistaminen ja konkretisointi ja 3) prosessien ja metodien systematisointi ja standardisointi. Asiantuntijapalveluja on vaikea tai mahdoton standardoida sellaisenaan, mutta ne voidaan tuotteistaa modulaarisesti. Palveluprosessien systematisoimiseen sopivin työkalu on niiden kuvaaminen service blueprinting -menetelmällä. Tutkimus on laadultaan kvalitatiivinen kuvaileva tapaustutkimus. Tutkimuksen empiirisessä on käytetty aineistonhankintatapoina puolistrukturoitua kyselyä, teemahaastatteluja, osallistuvaa havainnointia ja dokumenttien tutkimista. Näiden aineistojen analysoinnin tuloksena saatiin case-yritykselle kehitettyä yhtenäinen malli yleisestä asiakaspalveluprosessista ja kuvattua keskeisimpien palvelujen asiakaspalveluprosessit service blueprinting -menetelmällä.

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Organisaatioiden siiloutuminen on monissa yhteyksissä todettu haasteeksi, jopa kansalliseksi tuottavuusongelmaksi. Organisaatiokulttuurin voimaan kiinnitetään kasvavassa määrin huomiota myös johtamistutkimuksessa. Tämän työn tavoitteena oli tutkia organisaatioteorian eri lähestymistapojen kautta organisaatiokulttuuria ja sen yhteyttä yhtiöstrategian toteuttamiseen asiantuntijaorganisaatiossa, sekä tarkentaa siiloutumista tukevia ja toisaalta yhtenäisen organisaatiokulttuurin kehittymiseen vaikuttavia tekijöitä elinkeinoyhtiökontekstissa. Tutkimus toteutettiin kvalitatiivisena tapaustutkimuksena seudullisessa elinkeinoyhtiössä. Tutkimusmenetelmänä käytettiin puolistrukturoitua teemahaastattelua. Tutkimuksessa haastateltiin kohdeorganisaation eri yksiköt huomioiden asiakasrajapinnassa toimivaa henkilöstöä, jolla on keskeinen rooli yhtiöstrategian käytännön toteutuksessa. Tutkimuksen tuloksina tunnistettiin asiantuntijaorganisaation sisäisiin rajoihin liittyviä haasteita ja siilomaiseen toimintaan johtavia organisaatiokulttuurisia syitä sekä esitettiin keinoja siilojen poistamiseen. Tutkimuksen tuloksena kiteytettiin myös organisaatiokulttuurisia aktioita, joilla voidaan edistää strategian toteuttamista asiantuntijaorganisaatiossa. Lisäksi tutkimus antoi uutta tutkimuksellista tietoa siiloista tutkimuskohteena olleen elinkeinoyhtiön toimintaympäristön kautta. Tutkimuksen perusteella elinkeinoyhtiökontekstin vaikutukset heijastuvat organisaatiokulttuurissa siiloja ja siiloutumista vahvistavana keskeisimmin kolmesta syystä, joita ovat: 1) julkiselle kehittämisorganisaatiolle asetetut laajat ja osin erisuuntaiset tehtävät, 2) kuntarahoittajien ja yritysasiakkaiden asiakkuusroolien erilaisuus sekä 3) julkisella hankerahoituksella toteutettavat projektit.

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This study explores variegated means through which ports have become increasingly entangled in the planning logic of neoliberal innovation-driven economy. The research topic belongs to the academic disciplines of economics and human geography. The aim of the thesis is to analyse how the notion of innovation, adopted in a variety of supranational and national port policy documents, is deployed in operational port environment in two different ports of the Baltic Sea Region: the port of Stockholm, Sweden, and the port of Klaipeda, Lithuania. This novel innovation agenda is visible in several topics I examine in the study, that is, port governance, environmental issues, and seaport – port-city interface. The gathered primary source material on port policy documents, strategies, development planning documents and reports is analysed by utilizing the qualitative content analysis research method. Moreover, the empirical part of the case study, that is, tracing innovation practices in mundane port activities is based on collected qualitative semi-structured interviews with port authorities in Klaipeda and Stockholm, researchers and other port experts. I examine the interview material by employing the theoretical reading research method. In my analysis, I have reframed port-related policy development by tracing and identifying the port transformation from “functional terminals” to “engines for growth”. My results show that this novel innovation-oriented rhetoric imprinted in the narrative “engines for growth” is often contested in daily port practices. In other words, my analysis reveals that the port authorities’ and other port actors’ attitudes towards innovations do not necessarily correspond to the new narrative of innovation and do not always “fit” within a framework of neoliberal economic thinking that glorifies the “culture of innovations”. I argue that the ability to develop innovative initiatives in the ports of Klaipeda and Stockholm is strongly predetermined by local conditions, a port’s governance model, the way port actors perceive the importance of innovations per se, demand factors and new regulations.

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Poster at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014