Regional Knowledge Management: focus on Tuscany

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Regional Knowledge Management focus on Tuscany

• Paolo Federighi
• Florence University (professor)
• Tuscany Region (consultant)

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The question

• How Tuscany Regional Government try to support
  the HRD
• and
• to reinforce the governance of transfer and
  absorption of knowledge

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GDP per inhabitant, in PPS2001 NUTS 2
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Employment rate of age group 1564Percentage
Annual average 2002 NUTS 2
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Unemployment rate PercentageAnnual average 2002
NUTS 2
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Objects and subjects
Regional policies (education, training, job,
innovation, etc.)
Regional Governements
Supply of research, education and training
Demand of research and learning
Research centres
Citizens, individuals, entrepreneurs
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Institutional Competences of TR

• Institutional competences
• Vertical subsidiarity(devolution and
  complementary regulative power shared with
  national State)
• Economical power(fiscal power, direct management
  of Structural funds, etc./for training not
  education- regional investments reach 100 M of
  per year)

• Political options (or institutional building at
  regional level)
• Horizontal subsidiarity - decentralisation of
  competences and resources (counties and
  communes)- regional round tables-
  public/private cooperation
• Coordination and integration of public policies
  - simplification one general regional law on
  HRD substituting previous 17

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A problematic context

• Within Regional Gov.
• Self legitimating institutional culture
• Administration prevail on policy making
• Lack of coherence among regional Departments
  responsible for different policies

• Society
• Weak investments in research (around 1)
• Weak investments in HRD less than 5 days x
  worker x year5 minutes a day x person

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Participation in Education
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Local policies on supply side (1)

• Context a basic supply of research and learning
  exist (problem of quality and distribution)
• Focus better connection with local demand and
  future perspectives of the region

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Local policies on supply side Goals and
measures implemented

• Services and learning infrastructures for
  individual needs- open network of local job
  services- public and free distance learning
  regional system- local or specialised brokers
  for innovation and research
• Learning environments in firms (systems and
  informal learning)- mainly under the
  responsibility of social partners and problematic
  in a context of SMEs

• Social productivity of training and research -
  partnership (compulsory) - new learning
  subsystems(post secondary and study circle)-
  supply of competences(regional system of
  competences)
• Quality and competition for consumers protection
  and transparency in public money distribution-
  compulsory certification of suppliers and
  operators (specific regional service)

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Local policies on demand side

• Context weak demand and unsustainable potential
  expansion
• Focus how to increase the propension to the
  consumption of research and training among
  citizens and firms to make them more autonomous

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Local policies on demand side Goals and measures

• Access- Vouchers- for learning (till 15.000
  per person, or ILA till 3.000 pp)- for
  entrepreneurship (till 150.000 pp)- for young
  researches working in a firm (voucher/wage for 2
  years)
• Power of decision - individual have the right
  to select content, level, time, place, suppliers
  of education (from apprenticeship till continuous
  training f.i. Study circle)

• Networking among producers(associations)with
  suppliers of research(still a goal)
• Mobility for learning -local among systemsand
  work experiences- national and international to
  select the best and work experiences abroad
  (integration with Leonardo, etc.)

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A step ahead

• Regional knowledge management (Reknoma) within
  three economical districts (textile,
  motorbike,navy) based on
• Integration of HRD policies and Research and
  innovation policies at regional level(Regional
  pact, Common procedures, 6 M of to finance the
  process)
• Integration of public and private
  resources(waiting for additional money from
  local authorities and from private actors banks,
  chamber of commerce, etc.)

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Implementing Reknoma

• Decision making process based on
• Institutional decisions (needed even if the lack
  of consensus can block the process, involving
  local authorities)
• Concertation with social partners (external
  control on institutions but risks of
  contamination concertation/management)
• Partnership among real actors (function of public
  real leadership, real interest of partners local
  firms, associations of E/E, banks, centres of
  research)

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Partnership as goal for Reknoma

• To find right goals
• To guarantee complementarity of resources
• To define an effective process

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A European research on Reknoma

• To understand better the possible answers
• Tuscany Region
• Vastra Gotaland Region (Sweden)
• Vejle Region (Denmark)
• Are working together on a European research
  project (DG Research Knoreg program)
• open to a new partner from Eastern European
  countries