1. Regional governance in North Rhine-Westphalia - lessons for smart specialisation strategies?
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Rehfeld, Dieter and Terstriep, Judith
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COMMUNITY development , *REGIONAL economics , *LABOR market - Abstract
The paper reflects more than 25 years of experience in regional governance. The argumentation centres on North Rhine-Westphalia and the Ruhr area. The Ruhr area worked as a "laboratory" in experimenting with new modes of regional governance in the 1990s and 2000s. In a nutshell, four streams of regionalization have been implemented: Integrated regional development strategies, the International Building Exhibition IBA Emscher Park, Cluster policy, and Innovation City Bottrop and Rebuilding 21 - Digitalization in the Emscher Region as an example for real laboratories. The paper concludes with a hypothesis about different modes of regional governance, their strengths and weaknesses and asks for possibilities to improve the governance of smart specialisation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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