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Evolutionäre Ansätze bilden heute einen zentralen Baustein der regionalen Innovationsforschung. Im Fokus stehen dabei die Historie regionaler Innovationssysteme, daraus resultierende Routinen und Interaktionen sowie der Einfluss von Wissen, Institutionen und individuellen Akteuren auf Veränderungen regionaler Innovationspfade. Neue strukturpolitische Impulse wurden in den vergangenen Jahren vor allem durch die Europäische Kommission und die OECD gesetzt. Soziale Innovation, Intelligente Spezialisierung und die Ökologische Wende bilden aktuelle Diskussionslinien, die Veränderungen in regionalen Innovationssystemen nach sich ziehen werden. Welchen Beitrag INNO im Rahmen der Neujustierung leistet, wird in diesem Beitrag diskutiert.

Article 18B The 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia recognizes and respects the traditional rights of indigenous community. Article Number 14 of Law Number 12 Year 2011 in conjunction with Article Number 236 paragraph four (4) of Law Number 23 Year 2014 guarantees the formation of Regional Regulations based on regional characteristic. It is a normative research, using the approach of legislation and conceptual approach. It is necessary to amend Law No. 23 of 2014, especially in relation to the formation of Regional Regulations based on regional characteristics. Law Number 32 Year 2004 along with its implementing regulations and Law Number 23 Year 2014 do not specify the rules for the establishment of Regional Regulations based on regional characteristics.

In this paper we use a generalized entropy index such as the Theil index to analyze regional inequalities in Europe. We proved that there is a synchronization between the convergence and catching-up process of objective 1 regions towards the EU15 average with the reform of the EU regional policy. During the period 1982-1988 the Theil index shows that inequalities between objective 1 regions and non-objective 1 regions have increased while from 1989 onwards the reduction in the inequalities between these two groups has been the norm. We also remark the fact that there are high disparate rates of growth among objective 1 regions both within countries and across countries but our computations show also a trend towards a more balanced growth among objective 1 regions within and across EU countries. This success of the European Union regional policy in objective 1 regions will mean a big opportunity for Central and Eastern European countries and hence the increases in competition arising from an enlarged European market combined with a suitable regional development policy should in the future boost the growth of those countries. In the last part of the paper we made a simulation for the funding envelope from 2007, based on the 2000-2006 budget. We show that the figures of the Agenda 2000 provide enough financial support for 90% of the total CEEC population and for 75% of "current" objective 1 population. Key Words: Regional Policy, European Enlargement, Central and Eastern European Countries, Strategic Planning, Regional Growth, Regional Development

Vor dem Hintergrund des demografischen Wandels und sich abzeichnender partieller Fachkräfteengpässe bietet Aufstiegsmobilität durch Qualifizierung Vorteile für Unternehmen und Beschäftigte. Höherqualifizierung von Geringqualifizierten kann zur Deckung des Fachkräftebedarfs beitragen. Arbeitnehmer und Arbeitnehmerinnen können durch Höherqualifizierung ihre berufliche Position verbessern; für Geringqualifizierte kann Qualifizierung einen Weg aus prekärer Beschäftigung eröffnen. Ausbau und Nutzung dieser Chancen setzt vor allem eine entsprechend ausgerichtete betriebliche Personalpolitik voraus. Es wurde untersucht, welchen Stellenwert Höherqualifizierung und Aufstiegsmobilität in der Personalentwicklung von Unternehmen haben und welche betrieblichen und überbetrieblichen Qualifizierungsstrukturen bereits nutzbar bzw. auszubauen sind. Dabei wurden hemmende und förderliche Bedingungen identifiziert und Handlungsempfehlungen für die Betriebe und die Region entwickelt. Die Logistik bildet ein regional wichtiges Beschäftigungsfeld und wird weiterhin als Wachstumsbranche eingeschätzt. Darüber hinaus wird sie als Wirtschaftsbereich gehandelt, in dem niedrigschwellige Eintritte in Beschäftigung und in Qualifizierungsketten möglich erscheinen. [.]

Under certain basic conditions and prerequisites, regional and rural governance – known as steering approaches and modernizing strategies for regional policy – can contribute to a more efficient, effective and sustainable regional development. This is primarily ensured through a multitude of opportunities of participation for different regional actors, who organize their regional cooperation by creating an individual and self-determined regulating system, the management of which they delegate to a neutral and impartial third party. Using such a structure, the regional actors may also sensibly manage public financial means for the administration and selection of the projects which are carried out in the region. Consequently, the participation of the regional actors in the identification, execution and monitoring of these projects leads to more and collective responsibility as well as to a positive and motivating cooperation among the participants. In this context, the term "regional self-administration" could be obtain a new meaning.

Romania lags behind other European Union (EU) countries in many health outcomes. The government of Romania plans to build three new regional hospitals in the North-West (NW), North-East (NE), and South-West (SW) regions. These are envisaged to be tertiary referral hospitals providing highly complex care to their region. Five or six further regional hospitals may follow this first batch. Regional hospitals are not just bricks and mortar, but the apex of a complex regional health system. As flagship public hospitals, regional hospitals are planned to be the hub of each regional health system. Work to date, however, has focused on design and construction rather than how regional hospitals will interact and coordinate with other facilities. To highlight factors in the wider health system that are crucial to the role of regional hospitals, the World Bank undertook a comprehensive assessment of regional referral networks in Romania. This report drew on available hospital activity data, stakeholder interviews, and literature review to assess the extent to which these factors are in place using tracer conditions, such as total knee replacements and stroke. In conclusion, without as much attention to coordination of care within regional health networks as construction of regional hospitals, the hospitals will not be able to fulfil their promise as flagship providers of complex care.

Local government financial management mechanisms have continued to undergo significant changes in recent years. This article seeks to reveal the process and analysis of academic activities to support the performance of the regional financial and asset management office as a form of assistance and understanding of regional financial and asset management as a form of knowledge. This activity was carried out at the Regional Financial and Asset Management Agency of Central Sulawesi Province, starting with the provision of a pre-test before socialization or presentation of material then interactive discussions between the service team and service participants. Participants were given a post-test afterwards. The ultimate goal of this activity is the transfer of knowledge possessed by the service team in the field of accounting, especially accounting for fixed assets in the field of government accounting, to managers of regional property and regional assets of Central Sulawesi Province. It is hoped that the government team can carry out better administration, bookkeeping and preparation of financial reports. Empirical analysis is also presented in this research.

An important element in the urban and regional development strategy of many local and regional governments is geographical marketing. The process of geographical marketing combines promotional, spatial and organisational activities, and can be aimed at various groups. In 1989 a marketing campaign was started by the province of Groningen, in the northern part of the Netherlands. This campaign, which is still being carried on, has used various means of communication: advertisements in newspapers and magazines, and radio and television commercials. It has been aimed at entrepreneurs and at the general public as well. An ex ante study of the public image of Groningen was carried out before the start of the campaign. For this purpose a random sample of the Dutch population was inquired by telephone. Since then similar inquiries were carried out every two years, in order to measure the effects of the campaign. In these inquiries the image of the provinces of Friesland and Noord-Brabant was measured along with that of Groningen, and used for reference. The availability of this kind of data for a period of twelve years, measured at regular intervals, provides an opportunity to study the development of regional images through time. In this paper the data of the inquiries will be analysed. One of the main questions to be answered in the paper relates to the pace and the nature of the changes in image, observed in all three provinces. The second question specifically deals with the influence of the marketing campaign on the image of Groningen.

Im Zuge des vielschichtigen und globalen Prozesses der zunehmenden Digitalisierung verknüpfen sich wachsende Hoffnungen im Feld der Stadt- und Regionalpolitik mit regionalen Online-Plattformen. Mit ihnen ist das Versprechen verbunden, das soziale Leben zu bereichern, den Zugang zu Dienstleistungen und Informationen zu verbessern und nicht zuletzt auch neue wirtschaftliche Entwicklungen zu unterstützen und zu ermöglichen. Eine räumliche Fokussierung läuft der Logik von Online-Plattformen, deren Stärke es ja gerade ist, Menschen weltweit zu vernetzen, allerdings zuwider. Die Regionalisierung von Online-Plattformen ist mit anderen Worten sehr voraussetzungsvoll. Genau diese komplexen und vielschichtigen Voraussetzungen sollen in diesem Policy Paper adressiert werden und zwar in Form von sechs strategisch bedeutsamen Fragen. Es ist dabei nicht möglich, Handlungsanweisungen in der Logik geradliniger "how-to-dos" zu geben. Vielmehr ist es notwendig, für individuelle Anwendungsfälle, zu einer Vielzahl von Gestaltungsoptionen, eine passfähige Kombination von Alternativen zu finden - oder eben auch nicht zu finden und zu dem Ergebnis zu kommen, dass eine regionale Plattform in dem konkreten Fall wohl nicht "abheben" wird. Genau diesen Prozess soll das vorliegende Policy Paper unterstützen.

The paper presents a legislative and institutional framework of regional development in Serbia, as well as the analysis of regional disparities across different geography, elaborated through six selected indicators: population and population density (analyzed as a single indicator), Regional GDP, Employment, Unemployment, Business Demography and Budgetary Revenues per capita. Indicators are analyzed at the all three NUTS, as defined by the Law on Regional Development, and at the local level (cities and municipalities). In the analysis, the paper applies the unweighted Gini index of regional disparity that was used in calculating disparities within each observed indicator. The results are presented within the tables and figures that show changes of the Gini index across years of observation. The paper showed that highest regional disparities in Serbia are at the local and NUTS 3 level. Disparities at those two levels are stable across the years. Disparities at NUTS 1 and NUTS 2 levels are also high, yet lower than at the bellow territorial levels (NUTS 3 and the local level). However, disparity at these two levels grows much faster than at the NUTS 3 and local level.

Regional policy and planning in developing countries has the task to surmount spatial disequilibria. Various theories of regional development try to show a way out of economic disparities; but these theories are not always accepted by political institutions.

Die Arbeit befasst sich mit der Neuausrichtung der Förderpolitik in Branden-burg. Konkret geht es um ihre räumliche Komponente in Form der 15 Regionalen Wachstumskerne, die die brandenburgische Landesregierung im November 2005 ernannt hat. Die Auswahl der Wachstumskerne und ihre besondere förderpolitische Bedeutung sowie der Entstehungsprozess der Förderstrategie werden nachgezeichnet und bewertet. Bislang bildet die Wachstumsorientierung der Landespolitik den unumstrittenen Dreh- und Angelpunkt der Debatte, in der Aspekte der notwendigen Konzentration von Fördermitteln auf wenige Kerne und die "richtigen" Branchen dominieren. Die Arbeit setzt einen anderen Akzent. Es wird untersucht, inwiefern die Region im Zuge der neuen Förderstrategie eine strategische Aufwertung als Handlungsebene der Landespolitik erfahren hat und wie die dezentralen Umsetzungsprozesse verlaufen. Ausgangspunkt dieser Fragestellung sind die Regionalen Wachstumskerne im Städteverbund, in denen mehrere Gemeinden zu einem Wachstumskern zusammengefasst sind. Diese Konstellation lässt sich als "von oben" institutionalisierte Kooperation verstehen und wird in der Untersuchung anhand des Wachstumskerns Oranienburg-Hennigsdorf-Velten analysiert. Drei elementare Herausforderungen der Regionalentwicklung werden unter die Lupe genommen, die jeweils kooperatives Verhalten der regionalen Akteure und die Koordination verschiedener Interessen und Handlungsweisen verlangen: • die interkommunale Zusammenarbeit, • das Einbinden nicht-öffentlicher Akteure und • eine integrierte Herangehensweise. Einerseits wird gefragt, ob diese Aspekte überhaupt eine Rolle im Förderansatz des Landes spielen. Andererseits wird für die regionale Ebene am Beispiel analysiert, inwiefern die Umsetzung gelingt. Den Hintergrund für diesen veränderten Blickwinkel auf die neue brandenburgische Förderstrategie bilden somit steuerungspolitische Ansätze zum gezielten Setzen von Anreizen und der Aktivierung regionaler Akteuren. Online im Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin [http://www.ub.tu-berlin.de/index.php?id=1787] erschienen. ; The thesis deals with the renewed structural policy in Brandenburg, more precisely with the 15 regional growth cores that constitute its spatial basis. They have been announced by the Land Brandenburg's government in November 2005. The paper concentrates on the criteria for picking the growth cores and their prominent position. In plus it accounts the strategy's actual development process. So far the structural policy's focus on economic growth and the right selection of growth cores have been the dominant topics of debate. This work highlights another point. This refers to the question whether the region as a strategic level of policy making has gained importance in the course of the new policy approach and how the implementation process at the regional tier functions. The initial point of this reflection lies in the emergence of so-called associated regional growth cores, which consist of several municipalities. This special constellation can be interpreted as an cooperation institutionalised from above. The growth core Oranienburg-Hennigsdorf-Velten serves as an empirical example. Three essential challenges of regional development processes are examined in depth. Each of them requires a cooperative attitude and the coordination of different interests and ways of action: • Working together across administrative borders, • To involve private actors and • An integrative approach. Concerning the Land's policy the question is whether these aspects play a role in the new strategy at all. Regarding the regional tier the implementation process can be analysed with the help of these points. Thus, the background for this new perspective on the renewed structural policy lies in the scientific field of regional gov-ernance and appropriate incentives for regional actors. Online: Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin [http://www.ub.tu-berlin.de/index.php?id=1787]

Der Beitrag verortet die Diskussion um Regionalentwicklung in Großschutzgebieten in der politikwissenschaftlichen Diskussion um Governance und Regional Governance. Ziel des Beitrages ist es aufzuzeigen, dass es drei Hauptgründe gibt, warum Governance eine Rolle für Großschutzgebiete spielt: 1. aufgrund eines veränderten Naturschutzverständnisses, 2. aufgrund einer Bedeutungszunahme von Konzepten naturschutzorientierter Regionalentwicklung und 3. aufgrund der zwangsläufigen Umsetzung von Großschutzgebieten im politischen Mehrebenensystem. Empirisch sollen diese Governance-Aspekte anhand des Bundeswettbewerbes 'idee.natur' illustriert werden. Deutlich werden soll, dass Governance und Regional Governance wichtige Anknüpfungspunkte für Naturschutz und Großschutzgebiete bieten und es solche Konzeptionen mittlerweile tatsächlich in der naturschutzpolitischen Praxis gibt. ; The paper locates the debate on regional development in large-scale protected areas in the political-science discussion on governance and regional governance. The aim is to demonstrate that there are three primary reasons why governance is of relevance for large-scale protected areas: 1. due to a changed understanding of nature protection, 2. due to the increased significance of regional development concepts oriented towards nature protection, and 3. due to the necessity of implementing large-scale protected areas in a multi-level political system. These aspects of governance are empirically illustrated using the example of the federal competition 'idee.natur'. It becomes clear that governance and regional governance are important approaches for nature conservation and large-scale protected areas and that such concepts are already in use in the policy practice of nature protection.

This research examines the constitutionality and legal implications of the DPD's new powers and duties in monitoring and evaluating regional regulation drafts in terms of the function of the DPD. The research method uses a normative approach and qualitative descriptive analysis. The results of the research show that the addition of the authority and duties of the DPD to carry out monitoring and evaluation constitutionally has no legal basis so the arrangement can be deemed unconstitutional. On the other hand, if the new authority arrangement for the DPD is seen as not contrary to the Constitution, then this will set a precedent so that the addition of the authority of the Regional Representatives Council is not only within the purview of supervision but it can also be carried out within that of legislation, without making changes to the constitution and simply through the Law. In terms of the legal implications of the authority and a new task of DPD to set the scope of monitoring and evaluation, monitoring and evaluation models, and overlapping authorities to conduct monitoring and evaluation with those in the Central Government, DPD cannot give any follow-up to monitoring results. Thus, restructuring the tasks and authority of the DPD in the constitution and the statute is a must.

This paper examines the history of regional integration in Africa, what has motivated it, the different initiatives that African governments have pursued, the nature of the integration process, and the current challenges. Regional integration is seen as a rational response to the difficulties faced by a continent with many small national markets and landlocked countries. As a result, African governments have concluded a very large number of regional integration arrangements, several of which have significant membership overlap. While characterized by ambitious targets, they have a dismally poor implementation record. Part of the problem may lie in the paradigm of linear market integration, marked by stepwise integration of goods, labour and capital markets, and eventually monetary and fiscal integration. This tends to focus on border measures such as the import tariff. However, supply-side constraints may be more important. A deeper integration agenda that includes services, investment, competition policy and other behind-the-border issues can address the national-level supply-side constraints far more effectively than an agenda which focuses almost exclusively on border measures.