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Workshop 4 Intermediate Structures and Regional Development in Central and Eastern Europe Chairman: Wolfgang Potratz Concerning regional development (industrial, labour market, social) CEE-countries find themselves in a contradictive situation: should they put their stakes on reducing internal regional disparities or should they better promote the development of regions with a potential for further growth? The second problem is how to organize this process: with the dissolution of the old system a deep mistrust towards all central and collective instutions has grown and readily all promises of a "liberalized" economy, deregulation and decentralization have been taken up; on the other hand (hard) experience has taught of the necessity of some new kind of organized and structured collective action, institutions and regulation. But what are the adequate structures, processes and strategies? What is the proper balance of competition and cooperation between (political, social, economic) actors, between central and regional levels, governmental and non-governmental bodies? So far, (institutional) reforms in CEE have mostly focused on local self-government and on reforms of central government, but regional political-administrative bodies in between still have remained something like a missing link in the reforms of those countries. The situation still is marked by a whole set of problems: lack of consistent and long-term policy-approaches (unrealistic expectations for quick solutions), weak and inexperienced regional development 'agents' at national and regional level, lack of experience in implementing regional development programmes (on the national/regional level), unsatisfactory coordination between actors and policy fields, insufficient regional and local initiative and activity; shortage of reliable data and statistics and evaluation procedures etc. - in sum, the task ahead still is to rearrange regional governance structures with the aim of both regional accountability and efficiency. The answer of a number of countries has been to set up tripartite structures, very often inspired by German and Scandinavian examples - however without overcoming the basic problems described above. The situation is aggravated by the dawn of a "new economy" (or at least "new" forms of economic activities), which seems to launch just another round of economic and social structural change and adapation. The workshop shall take up these issues in a comparative manner. The focus shall be on the structural logic and institutional character of solutions and their respective contribution to regional development. The lesson to be learned might be a better understanding and assessment of the chances and prerequisites of decentralized (?) regional development in transition countries surrounded by a globalizing economy. It is suggested to organize the workshop in three parts with a number of sub-themes, which are given below in the form of questions, which should be addressed. However, they should not be understood as definitive and final; additional proposals or variations are welcome. Themes: 1. State of the art: contradictions adjourned or straightened out? what is the state of institutions/ institution building in the regions, how do they relate to central level institutions and to local self-government, how are they embedded in the economic and societal framework/fabric of the regions, what is their role/function in regional development and how do they fit in overall governance structures? 2. Strategies and processes of regional development: intermediate institutions at the interface of expectations and socio-economic reality what is the logic of regional development strategies (balance of disparities/growth?), how do regional (intermediate) bodies fit into these strategies and what is their contribution, how do they use their room for manoevre, and what for, what is the relationship between cooperation, competition and conflict, and what about accountability and efficiency, how do regional strategies relate to overall national development strategies and how are they coordinated? 12 - 14 May 2002
3. Evaluation and perspectives: CEE regions in a europeanizing/globa-lizing economy how do the regions/regional structures perform, what would they need to perform better, what might be the role of cross-border cooperation, have internal disparities been overcome, how is the problem of peripheral regions handled, what lessons have been learnt so far with respect to the organisation of regional development processes (cooperation, ...) and regional capacity building, have regions contributed to national economic priorities/cohesion, which role have regions played so far in the accession policies and processes? Programme: In all, we have three types of papers: one paper on the economic effects of EUassistance and their relation to local and regional politico-administrative structures (Quaisser/Woodward) 4 papers on the "state of the art" in different countries, which besides national particuliarities highlights specific problems in organizing a functioning regional level (Cambalikova, Paeglite, Matey-Tyrowicz, Lazarenko/Sobolev) 2 papers concerned with important special aspects of regional development: firms' role in social policy (Rozanova) and innovation (Inzelt) Wolfgang Quaisser & Richard Woodward, Munich/Germany & Warsaw/Poland: European Union structural and regional assistance to Central and Eastern Europe: Prospects and Problems Inta Paeglite, Riga/Lettonia: Aims of Regional Development and Problems Concerning the Establishment of Regional Tripartite Institutions Maria Matey-Tyrowicz, University of Warsaw/Poland: Tripartite Structures in Poland Vladimir Lazarenko/Vladimir Sobolev, Kharkov/Ukraine: Institutional Obstacles in Overcoming Regional Economic Disproportions: A Case Study of Ukraine Julia Rozanova, Lomonossow University, Moscow/Russia: Big Russian Corporations: Sharing the Responsibility for Social Development and Participation in Social Policy Annamaria Inzelt, Budapest: Innovation in a Region with SME's: The Case of Hungary Wolfgang Potratz Institute for Work and Technology Wissenschaftzentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen Munscheidstraße 14 D-45886 Gelsenkirchen Phone +49 209 1707177; Fax +49 209 1707110 potratz@iatge.de 13 - 14 May 2002
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