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

Hansen, Povl Adler; Serin, Göran Folke

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“…attracting and distributing funding) as well as provide information about institutional differences and complementarities in order to reduce uncertainty (Klatt and Herrmann, 2011). Finally, policy network organizations can aim at directly changing informal institutions by explicitly promoting the value of cross-border areas and cross-border identity (Hansen and Serin, 2010;Stöber, 2011). …”

Section: Institutions and Cross-border Regionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, most of these studies suggest that regional actors exploit existing institutional structures to their advantage or adapt to them without actively engaging in institutional change processes. That is, institutional change taking place mainly as change in interpretation rather than dismantling and redesigning old institution or creating new ones (Hansen and Serin, 2010). …”

Section: Institutions and Cross-border Regionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Creating institutional preconditions for knowledge flows in cross-border regions

Miörner

Zukauskaite

Trippl

et al. 2017

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Abstract:In recent years we have witnessed an intensive scholarly discussion about the limitations of traditional inward looking regional innovation strategies. New policy approaches put more emphasis on promoting the external connectedness of regions. However, the institutional preconditions for collaboration across borders have received little attention so far. The aim of this paper is to investigate both conceptually and empirically how policy network organizations can target the institutional underpinnings and challenges of cross-border integration processes and knowledge flows. The empirical part of the paper consists of an analysis of activities performed by four cross-border policy network organizations in the Öresund region (made up of Zealand in Denmark and Scania in Sweden) and how they relate to the creation of institutional preconditions and the removal of institutional barriers. Our findings suggest that cross-border policy network organizations have limited power to change or facilitate the adaptation of formal institutions directly. They mainly rely on mobilizing actors at other territorial levels for improving the formal institutional conditions for knowledge flows. Informal institutions, on the other hand, can be targeted by an array of different tools available to policy network organizations. We conclude that institutional preconditions in cross-border regions are influenced by collective activities of multiple actors on different territorial levels, and that regional actors mainly adapt to the existing institutional framework rather than change it. For innovation policy this implies that possibilities for institutional change and adaptation need to be considered in regional innovation policy strategies.

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Section: Institutions and Cross-border Regionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Institutions and Cross-border Regionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Creating institutional preconditions for knowledge flows in cross-border regions

Miörner

Zukauskaite

Trippl

et al. 2017

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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“…Furthermore, there is a mushrooming set of cross-border co-operation (CBC) studies conducted in the framework of EU regional policies, such as INTERREG, investigating the processes of reterritorialization and rescaling through transnational regionalization and building of cross-border institutions (see e.g. Hansen & Serin, 2010;Knippenberg, 2004;Perkman, 2002). These studies can be considered as examples of policy transfer studies, as they scrutinize the dynamics of implementing EU policies at the local and regional levels.…”

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Borders, planning and policy transfer: historical transformation of development discourses in the Finnish Torne Valley

Jakola

2016

European Planning Studies

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European Union spatial policies have become a key institutional context in which to study policy transfer processes in European border areas. These policies are, however, only the most recent part of these transformation processes which raises a need for more historically sensitive approaches. An historical perspective is important, since border regions are historical processes with particular path-dependent development trajectories and power structures. This paper aims to contribute to the discussion concerning the transformation of European border regions by looking at the policy transfer of regional development discourses in the Finnish Torne Valley. The study material consists of strategic development documents produced by the Finnish border municipalities and the municipal-based co-operation organizations from the 1930s to 2013. The examination, based on critical discourse analysis, shows that the transformation process is driven by national trends and the dominant planning discourse. Nevertheless, the particular border setting and local discourse on 'united Torne Valley' have also intertwined with political and economic processes during different time periods. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…In order to comply with the requirements of EU regional policy, member states had to adapt their governance structures, by either creating a regional tier of government from scratch or integrating new administrative tasks into existing institutional structures. Moreover, while the term region traditionally refers to a sub-national scale, the EU brought out new conceptions that transcend the boundaries of nation states, such as cross-border regions or macro-regions (Deas and Lord 2006;Hansen and Serin 2010;Perkmann 2003Perkmann , 2006.…”

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Integrating regional development and planning into “spatial planning” in Finland: The untapped potential of the Kainuu experiment

Purkarthofer

Mattila

2018

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With Finland's accession to the European Union in 1995, a regional level of administration responsible for regulation-based land-use planning and incentive-driven regional development policy was introduced. The administration of both policies on the same spatial scale and within the same organisation suggests increased coordination of spatial impacts and a move towards an integrated conception of spatial planning. In practice, however, the relationship of these two fields remains ambiguous. In the Finnish case, one potential explanation for this detachment lies in the de facto weakness of the regional scale. In the Kainuu region in Northeastern Finland, ambitions to strengthen the regional scale resulted in a self-government experiment between 2005 and 2012. This article addresses the implementation of this experiment, its implications for integrated regional governance and the lessons to be learned for the upcoming regional reform in Finland.

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

Cited by 14 publications

References 38 publications

Creating institutional preconditions for knowledge flows in cross-border regions

Creating institutional preconditions for knowledge flows in cross-border regions

Borders, planning and policy transfer: historical transformation of development discourses in the Finnish Torne Valley

Integrating regional development and planning into “spatial planning” in Finland: The untapped potential of the Kainuu experiment

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