Enhancing Strategic Planning and Innovation Services
This report synthesises the regional development and innovation challenges facing Romania's RDAs and potential activities to overcome these in three areas - strategic planning and performance measurement, finance and implementation, and communication and stakeholder engagement.
| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Paris :
Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development
2023.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009786727406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Executive summary
- Key findings
- Key recommendations
- Beyond the RDAs - Key recommendations to higher-level bodies
- 1 Recommendations for Romania and considerations for regional planning and innovation
- Key insights
- The ability of Romanian RDAs to implement regional development and innovation policy could be further reinforced
- A wide range of resources can be mobilised to implement regional plans
- Innovation remains undeveloped and widely misunderstood in Romania
- The Association of Regional Development Agencies of Romania (ROREG) could play a greater role in co-ordinating and speaking for Romania's RDAs
- Recommendations for Romanian RDAs
- Recommendations for ROREG
- Recommendations for Romania's national government
- Governance considerations for RDAs and policy makers
- Reference
- 2 Overview of regional development and innovation in Romania
- Romania faces significant and growing regional disparities
- Economic disparities between regions are large and growing larger
- Disparities are visible in other regional development areas
- Innovation is concentrated in Bucharest-Ilfov
- Subnational governments are key players in delivering regional development policy
- Setting the scene: The important role of Romanian RDAs in regional development
- Romanian RDAs are key actors in advancing regional development
- RDAs can leverage strategic planning and innovation to advance regional development
- New opportunities and challenges: Becoming Managing Authorities in the 2021-27 programming period
- Conclusion
- References
- Notes
- 3 Strategic planning in Romanian Regional Development Agencies
- Strategy, planning and performance measurement
- The RDAs' longstanding experience can help them deliver as regional Managing Authorities.
- An updated methodology and increased national support could improve strategic plans
- RDAs struggle to ensure strategic coherence between regional and local objectives
- Regional data gaps hamper the quality of regional planning
- Monitoring and evaluation are inhibited by data, culture and capacity gaps
- Finance and implementation
- The Regional Programmes provide significant but insufficient funds for regional investment needs
- RDAs need to build expertise and capacity for effective call design and execution
- Implementation of regional plans requires co-ordination and monitoring at the local and national levels
- Communication and stakeholder engagement
- Stakeholders are not fully motivated to support regional plans
- All communications need to be sharpened to focus on a shared regional vision
- Communication plans should leverage RDA understanding of regional stakeholders
- RDAs could benefit from new approaches and tools for engagement
- Conclusion
- References
- Notes
- 4 Building on Romania's innovation support services
- Strategy, planning and performance measurement for innovation support services
- Strategy design for regional innovation
- Strategic co-ordination is limited within many RDA innovation strategies
- RDA capacity to develop a coherent innovation strategy is limited
- RDAs must address strategy design challenges and take advantage of wider opportunities
- Innovation camps could be further explored to support improved strategy design
- European Union initiatives offer further opportunities to improve innovation strategy design
- The limitations of a weak innovation ecosystem
- Suggestions to improve the innovation ecosystem
- International expertise could support a better understanding of regional innovation ecosystems
- Knowledge and understanding of innovation.
- Investment is needed to boost knowledge and expertise
- Knowledge of the region can support better targeting of innovation support
- The limitations of current human resources and capacity
- Assessment of capacity gaps is an important first step
- Knowledge gaps can undermine RDA authority and effectiveness
- Data, monitoring and evaluation
- Data are key for effective monitoring and evaluation
- Innovation data can support regional development objectives
- Open data should remain a long-term objective for RDAs
- Finance and implementation
- RDA call management and beneficiary support
- Regional businesses are unable to utilise RDA support services
- Beneficiary capacity
- Beneficiaries need greater support to utilise innovation support
- Funding limitations
- Communication and stakeholder engagement
- Communications and engagement
- A new approach is needed to connect with regional stakeholders
- Co-ordination and co-operation with innovation stakeholders
- Collaboration will require buy-in from all actors and sub-regions
- Beneficiary understanding of innovation and S3 promotion
- Greater awareness is an essential first step towards understanding
- S3 promotion can be achieved by engaging stakeholders through domain-related interests
- Further considerations for innovation support in Romania
- Future opportunities and challenges
- Potential innovation goals and objectives for RDAs
- References
- Notes.
