Challenges of multi-level governance and partnership: drawing lessons from European Union cohesion policy

Dąbrowski, Marcin; Bachtler, John; Bafoil, François

doi:10.1177/0969776414533020

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“…The added value offered by ITIs concerns the promotion of a territorial dialogue among different stakeholders at local, regional and national levels, and the introduction of multilevel governance (MLG) systems (EC, 2015). Nowadays, the concept of MLG has been commonly used to understand and describe how the EU works in practice through a political system characterized by vertical and horizontal interactions and relationships among different territorial levels (Dąbrowski, Bachtler, & Bafoil, 2014), such as supranational, national, regional and local.…”

Section: Regional Studies Regional Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In fact, the role of local institutions and policy-making styles is a hotly debated topic. It is not clear 'who REGIONAL STUDIES, REGIONAL SCIENCE decides', 'who benefits' and 'who is excluded' (Dąbrowski et al, 2014). For example, in relation to the 2014-20 programming period, some countries have asked for greater clarity in terms of the roles and practical applications of ITI tools.…”

Section: Mlg In the Implementation Of The Urban Agendamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Towards a regional urban agenda: approaches and tools

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Pira

2017

Regional Studies, Regional Science

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Section: Regional Studies Regional Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Mlg In the Implementation Of The Urban Agendamentioning

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Towards a regional urban agenda: approaches and tools

Isola

Leone

Pira

2017

Regional Studies, Regional Science

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“…These widely differ between particular countries due to unique institutional arrangements and governmental traditions. Dabrowski et al (2014) stress that inter alia, because of a more centralized system of governance and usually non-collaborative decision-making cultures in new EU member states from CEE, the implementation of EU Cohesion Policy brings different results compared with Western European countries. Milio (2014) provides evidence about differentiation in the implementation of EU policies at the regional level in Italy based on institutional settings, administrative tradition, relations between civil society and sub-national institutions, and stakeholders' ability in terms of effectiveness and efficiency.…”

Section: Understanding Eu Multilevel Governance In Relation To Regionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Multilevel cross-border governance in the Czech-Saxon borderland: working together or in parallel?

Špaček

2018

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Despite a large amount of literature on multilevel governance, relatively little empirical attention has been paid to decision-making in Central and Eastern Europe. This paper contributes to closing this research gap by focussing on multilevel cross-border decision-making across the Czech-Saxon border region. Specific attention is paid to the involvement of non-state actors and to the main challenges of cross-border multilevel governance in the case study's region. Although there is a tendency on both sides of the border to invite partners from the private and nonprofit sectors into the decision-making process, the situation in the case-study region is far from the normative conceptualization of EU multilevel governance. For whole region the most important obstacles to balanced regional development were shown to be a multilevel mismatch, different languages, and the lack of a common strategy, while insufficient capacities at the local and regional levels were found on the Czech side.

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“…The various organisations and levels of government seem to require the benefits and results of the project to be justified by way of examples to strengthen national cooperation and to drive the joint strategy forward, and a more robust commitment. The knowledge broker concept focuses on network actions, but according to the European University Association [50] and our interviewees, there are multiple needs and challenges [51] to develop multilevel governance through knowledge-brokerage actions in smart specialisation:…”

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Higher Education Institutions as Knowledge Brokers in Smart Specialisation

Kangas

Aarrevaara

2020

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The effectiveness of societal interaction has become a key aspect in evaluating the success of higher education institutions (HEIs) in performing their duties. These factors have been built into institutional funding models, and the funding of research follows a similar approach. External stakeholders are now having to share in undertaking some of the functions that will define higher education institutions’ external activities, societal interaction and impact on society. The European Union’s smart specialisation strategy is such a factor. This initiative allows higher education institutions to implement policies by building regional clusters. The counterparts of higher education institutions in these clusters of smart specialisation are knowledge-intensive enterprises, high-tech service providers, educational institutions, the Arctic Smartness Specialisation Platform and other centers of expertise for smart specialisation. In this paper, we have analysed the role of higher education institutions as knowledge brokers in smart specialisation though a qualitative analysis of 20 interviews conducted during the implementation of the smart specialisation project. Our findings show that the knowledge broker role can be promoted from four perspectives: the social dimension of networks; decision-making and control; cluster building; and exchange elements. The clarification and legitimation of the role of higher education institutions as knowledge brokers in these areas would give smart specialisation more impetus to reach its goals.

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Challenges of multi-level governance and partnership: drawing lessons from European Union cohesion policy

Cited by 36 publications

References 48 publications

Towards a regional urban agenda: approaches and tools

Towards a regional urban agenda: approaches and tools

Multilevel cross-border governance in the Czech-Saxon borderland: working together or in parallel?

Higher Education Institutions as Knowledge Brokers in Smart Specialisation

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