Urban profiles a stepping stone for comparative learning

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Urban profiles a stepping stone for
comparative learning

• Olga Kareva
• 6th final MECIBS Conference
• Nykoping, 13-14 June 2005

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See-Feel-Change

• The Key to success is rarely analytical
  brilliance, but in fact lies in making people
  feel differently
• (Prof. J.Kotter, after examining over 100
  businesses undergoing large scale change)

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General strategies of the municipalities

• Survival
• (competition, even sometimes competing leads to
  a small scale weak networks)
• Perception
• (liability,tolerance, openness, attitude)
• Differentiation
• (right positioning on the market, flexibility,
  ability for transformation)

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How to achieve better local governance

• Through personal passion
• Through undertaking institutional changes
• Legal, political, financial, administrative
  reform
• institutional interlinking
• Through training for better performance
• Communication, collaboration, workshops,
  publications, research, study visits, MECIBS
  project

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Training leads to

• Learning new things
• Growing and keeping awareness and competence
• Updating knowledge and professional skills
• Advanced technologies, schemes, methodics and
  methods
• Achieving conditions for transformation

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UP as a training tool

• Objective outlook of the municipality
• Is not a self marketing device
• Is not a competing index document
• Is a set of real cases and examples
• Is a set of future challenges

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Target groups of UP

• All readers, interested and curious about the new
  illustrated brochure
• Tourist companies
• Potential investors , business actors
• Councils of professional bodies and entities
• City administration
• City council

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Basics of UP

• What is expected from UP
• Reliable and compatible data
• Right interpretation of the message
• Analysis of local needs and resources
• To be a tool for further differentiation and
  promotion
• To be a ground or a kick of for decision makers

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Economic and social transitions

• Agricultural
• Industrial
• for industrialized economies jobs and growth
  lie in sectors where value can be added through
  the creation and application of knowledge
• Creative
• creative class comprises more than quarter of
  the workforce in Europe

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Creativity

• Requires teamwork
• Is stimulated by human exchange and networks
• Takes place in real communities and places
• A wide-open game of competition

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Findings within UPs

• Clusters are more likely to survive with in
  economic cruises
• Outsourcing can be a positive challenge, being a
  driven force for creation technology-based
  industries, RD , thus aiming the labour consuming
  businesses go to cost effective manufacturing
  countries
• University or a branch can add a lot to the image
  and economy of the city
• businesses follow the talented and creative
  people
• Educated people are the key driver of economic
  development

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Through MECIBS to where

• New projects and project ideas
• New groupings and networking
• Follow ups and feed backs
• Research or results
• Personal and institutional links

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Back to creative process

• Everybody is welcome