Enhancing Strategic Planning and Innovation Services.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

OECD, author, issuing body.

Series:

OECD Regional Development Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (104 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Paris : Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development, 2023.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

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

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

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

Notes.

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ISBN:

92-64-94286-6

92-64-54841-6