Agglomeration or Cross-border ICT Cluster? The Öresund Region

Hansen, Povl Adler; Serin, Göran Folke

doi:10.1057/9780230378841_6

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“…Danish interest in cross-border co-operation also grew after the economic crisis in the early 1990s when Copenhagen, in particular, suffered from very high levels of unemployment. To overcome this, greater effort was put into restructuring the economic base by transforming from an industrial to a more (Bucken-Knapp, 2003;Hansen and Serin, 2006). This task required new development tools.…”

Section: The øResund Region Cross-border Integration Project: Institumentioning

confidence: 98%

Rescaling or Institutional Flexibility? The Experience of the Cross-border Øresund Region

Hansen

Serin

2010

Regional & Federal Studies

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This article is based on the experience of the cross-border integration processes across the Øresund strait which separates Denmark from Sweden, and the related institutional and spatial interaction processes. The role of 'space of flows' and that of 'space of place', or territory, will be examined in relation to this cross-border integration. Several related questions will be addressed: has there been a re-scaling in the form of new cross-border institutions or have existing national and regional institutional structures been able to adapt to the new landscape to which the cross-border integration has given rise? Does a process exist whereby the 'problem' and its solution are readily identified and absorbed by existing institutional structures with actions carried out through 'selective competence delegation'? Based on two case studies, the integration of the labour market and the creation of a crossborder public railway network, the article discusses the institutional and spatial challenges which are consequences of and a context for the co-operation processes in the Øresund Region.

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Section: The øResund Region Cross-border Integration Project: Institumentioning

confidence: 98%

Rescaling or Institutional Flexibility? The Experience of the Cross-border Øresund Region

Hansen

Serin

2010

Regional & Federal Studies

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“…the so-called European refugee crisis in 2015 and the COVID-19 pandemic since 2020), have further hindered the ease of crossing the border. This has led to a drop in cross-border traffic flows and, thus, is likely to hamper the potential for knowledge flows and CBRIS integration in the region (see Madsen, 2017).…”

Section: The øResund Regionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Still, the actual process of CBRIS integration cannot be said to have followed the envisioned premises. Despite the construction of the bridge (contact), the work done by cross-border policy network organizations (differentiation) and the branding efforts (affirmation) undertaken to accrue knowledge flows and innovation across the two sides of the border, the region is (still) characterized as a semi-integrated CBRIS (Madsen, 2017). CBRIS integration in the Øresund region is neither a 'success story' nor a 'failed case', but a nuanced experience that shows how the presence of a border can have both advantages and drawbacks and how the border does not tend to disappear even when open but rather transforms itself both in its material role and symbolic meaning.…”

Section: The øResund Regionmentioning

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Bringing borders back into cross-border regional innovation systems: Functions and dynamics

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International boundaries have been mainly considered as barriers in literature on the ‘cross-border regional innovation system’ (CBRIS), in line with their traditional understanding. In this paper, we underline that such a perspective presents limits, and argue in favour of an understanding of multidimensional borders that are subject to dynamic change over time. By mobilizing conceptualizations from the field of border studies, we examine the various functions of borders to explain the innovation-led development potential in cross-border regions. In this view, international borders can function as an interface, a marker of difference or a symbol, rather than a mere barrier that separates regions. Further, we suggest that these border functions are key factors in explaining the ‘fluctuating’ integration dynamics of regional innovation systems across the border. Mobilizing evidence from two case studies in European and North American contexts, the paper sheds light on the border as a potential resource for innovation and discusses implications for future research.

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“…When the border controls were enforced (2015-2016) between the Danish and Swedish parts of the Øresund Bridge, the regional actors were actually ignored, since the decisions were based upon top-down hierarchical logic [56].…”

Section: Governance and Bottom-up Engagementmentioning

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The Mission-Oriented Approach for (Cross-Border) Regional Development

Cappellano

Kurowska‐Pysz

2020

Sustainability

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During the times of the COVID-19 pandemic, nations have issued unprecedented border closures around the world, yielding abrupt impacts on the movement of goods and people. This has heavily affected the quality of life in border regions, which are often found to be at a disadvantage when compared to other regions in terms of employment, accessibility, social services and economic growth. Based upon developing threads in the literature concerning the untapped potential for development in border regions, we argue that the Mission-Oriented Approach (MOA) can fit well with the ambitious goal to revitalize those territories in the aftermath of the pandemic. Despite the surge of MOA in discourses on innovation policy, we seek to implement it in a regional development perspective, pursuing both economic and social policy objectives. The authors unravel the policy concept of MOA into three main aspects: (I) address a sound societal challenge; (II) Research & Development (R&D) regional agenda embedded in a cross-border regional development vision; (III) mobilizing multiple cross-sectorial projects. Through a desk study analysis, the authors draw insights from selected case studies where these aspects have been implemented to inspire policy intervention in the aftermath of COVID-19. This paper presents the MOA theoretical model, which has potential explanatory power in other cross-border regions.

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Agglomeration or Cross-border ICT Cluster? The Öresund Region

Cited by 4 publications

References 12 publications

Rescaling or Institutional Flexibility? The Experience of the Cross-border Øresund Region

Rescaling or Institutional Flexibility? The Experience of the Cross-border Øresund Region

Bringing borders back into cross-border regional innovation systems: Functions and dynamics

The Mission-Oriented Approach for (Cross-Border) Regional Development

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