Competitiveness of the Mediterranean territories
Globalization brings with it economic and social inequalities, but also land, to the extent that the territories have differing competitive advantages. This leads to differences of up to territorial divisions carry political and social imbalances. The question of territorial competitiveness becomes a key issue and a major effect on regional development policies. The territory is indeed a relevant scale for solutions to the challenge of globalization.
Learn moreInnovation and competitiveness in the northern Mediterranean
Competitiveness can be measured against criteria such as economic performance, political support, business efficiency and infrastructure availability. However, one of the overriding factors in the competitiveness of a country's innovation: there is indeed a strong interdependence between innovation and competitiveness at the macro level, and similarly, the per capita GDP is positively correlated the degree of innovation in the region (which is however not a causation). However, the need to promote innovation is sometimes underestimated in public policy in the countries of southern Europe, as in companies, where the cultural burden on the degree of trust and cooperation among economic agents and citizens, which has a major impact on innovation and economic growth. Thus we observe a line north-south divide in European countries.
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Economic prospects of the southern countries of the Mediterranean
Under the Euro-Mediterranean partnership, the priority issue is the establishment of a free trade area that would allow the construction of a large integrated Mediterranean market to the European market. Within this market, the development of cross-border flows should be based on complementary economies: technology and purchasing power in the north; cheap labor south. But economically, the balance of Barcelona is very thin: the slow growth of foreign direct investment (FDI) and international trade within the area reveals the weakness of the process of economic integration and trade .
Learn moreEuropean initiatives in support of clusters: policy choices for what results?
Clusters were often first developed without any public intervention: it is their success in terms of economic performance, which strongly encourages the government today to use this tool in their innovation policies, the active support the policy becomes crucial in the creation and development of clusters.
All levels of governance involved in policies to support clusters: if they are first at national or even regional, if only because of the strong territorial dimension that they contain, the Union Europe is also heavily involved in the policy of promoting clusters, although its incentives are different in nature from those of the Member States.
Learn moreDiversity policies in support of clusters in the northern Mediterranean-
The case of a French region (PACA), two Italian regions (Piedmont, Lombardy), two regions of Spain (Basque Country, Murcia) and Greece
The regions covered in this discussion reflect the diversity of policies to support clusters in Europe and their impact on the development of the latter. This plurality both policy clusters can be attributed to several factors.
The organization of the state plays a decisive role: whether the State is unitary, that is to say, centralized or federal-type, with regions enjoying considerable autonomy, policies to support clusters will be more important at the national or regional level, although both types can co-exist.
Learn moreOf voids and solids: how to deal with an explosive urban growth and the aggravated regional imbalances?
Understanding the spatial dynamics existing in the Mediterranean requires taking the measure of the urban explosion that know all the countries of southern and eastern Mediterranean. This in turn affects all territories and cities including who must deal with this strong growth in population.
The limitations of the tools of urban and territorial planning
In most Mediterranean countries, states appear, sometimes for decades, their commitment to a balanced regional development and national urban systems. A wave Planner was born in the years following independence, the results are, and to put it mildly, far from conclusive beings.
A land issue insoluble without strong political
The land tenure system in the southern and eastern Mediterranean is a major impediment to rapid urban growth and balanced land tenure systems are everywhere "pluralistic".
