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time. One feels inclined to draw parallels between such an evolutionary development and learning the internal logic of a game of chess 1 . Having established the concept of learning utilised in this study, one can proceed to assess it in the specific context in question. Assessing organisational learning as both a contributing factor to the accumulation of social capital and as a reflection of the existing level of social capital accumulation would naturally require an intricate analysis of factors of social capital. Some tentative indications of organisational learning can, however, also be deduced from how the programme documents and the SWOT analyses they contain refer to learning having taken place within the programming process. Two separate, though inter-connected factors can be distinguished: experiences from the previous programming period (likely to be particularly central in the EU programmes) and the lessons learnt from other programming processes taking place within the same (or partially overlapping) region. In the following table these two factors are referred to as learning potential relating to European programmes (referring to EU Structural Funds programmes) and learning potential relating to national programmes. In addition to these two factors, monitoring and evaluation processes are also referred to, as they are likely to be central to the way in which data collection and other more qualitative observation contributing to the subsequent learning can take place. 2 1 Of course there are major differences. An evolutionarily co-operative chess match would likely never end. Unlike the overwhelming majority of social situations the game forms a closed system. The only way to get out of the game situation is to win, which in a closed system has to be balanced by someone else’s loss. As argued earlier, however, this is not the case in strategic interactions described here. 2 It should be noted here that this section does not rely solely on the analysis of the SWOT, as other parts of the programming document, as well as previous programming documents are required to assess the connection between analytical elements and learning within the programming cycle as a whole. 42
Table 6. Learning within the programming cycle PROGRAMME BLEKINGE GROWTH AGREEMENT (SWEDEN) VÄSTERBOTTEN GROWTH AGREEMENT (SWEDEN) VARSINAIS- SUOMI REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (FINLAND) POHJOIS- POHJANMAA REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (FINLAND) LEARNING POTENTIAL VIS-A-VIS EUROPEAN PROGRAMMES -New development instrument, which explains the lack of interconnectedness to previous programming work, -Connection to structural funds programming acknowledged, though not explicitly in the SWOT -Emphasis on the Baltic dimension seen as a shared priority, especially after the future EU enlargement -Direct reference to EU programmes and coordination between the two development instruments -Programme and SWOT written in 1997 = in the middle of the programming period, which explains the difficulty in drawing conclusions on the results of the Structural Funds programming period -Shared priority (expertise) with Objective 2 -Rural development a shared concern with previous 5b, employment with Objective 2 -No SWOT in the programming document -Reference to Objective 6, 5b, 3 and 4 of the previous programming period, as well as to the Baltic Interreg and Northern Periphery programmes LEARNING POTENTIAL VIS- AVIS NATIONAL PROGRAMMES -General reference to regional development work undertaken since the 1960s -County strategy 1995-1996, which was developed in connection to structural funds programming -No explicit reference made to previous national forms of planning -Regional Development Programme from 1994 referred to, similar aims and elements in the SWOT -Centres of expertise programme referred to both in SWOT and priorities -On a general level inter-connectedness with the previous programming documents and the programme objectives acknowledged -Programme largely a re-focusing of the 1995-1999 Regional Development Programme (published in 1994) MONITORING AND EVALUATION -Yearly reporting, not defined in detail -Co-ordinator with responsibility for evaluation and monitoring identified -No explicit reference to structural funds in this context -Quite vague – “in a similar fashion to the EU Structural Funds programmes, but lighter implementation” -Partly in direct coordination with the EU monitoring and evaluation structures, partly on a more political level by reporting of the head of the regional council 43
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