OECD Territorial Reviews: Oresund, Denmark/Sweden 2003 [electronic resource] /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentContributor
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2003.
OECD's comprehensive territorial review of the Oresund region of Denmark and Sweden. Competitiveness is increasingly cited as the key objective of regional economic policy. In the same way that company executives strive to improve their market share and national governments are introducing competitiveness strategies, policy makers in urban areas are looking for ways to increase or maintain the competitive edge of their cities. This is a daunting task in any situation, but particularly so when, as in this case, the functional economic area concerned stretches across national boundaries. The constituent regions of Öresund, comprising the island of Zealand in Denmark, home of Copenhagen, and Sweden's Skåne region which hosts the country's third biggest city, Malmö are both wealthy areas. It is a "learning region" and has a strong presence in some high technology sectors. As such, the key to future growth is not simply the creation of a fixed link between the two parts of the region or improved flexibility in an expanded labour market. The region must look outward and compete with other metropolitan areas to retain and augment the assets that give it, at present, a strong competitive position in the "new economy".
Foreword  -- Acknowledgements  -- Assessment and Recommendations  -- Chapter 1. Trends and Challenges  -- 1.1. Introduction -- Cross-border trends and challenges -- The geopolitical context -- 1.2. The infrastructural framework -- Airports and ports -- Traffic across the Öresund strait -- 1.3. Labour market -- Recent trends in employment and unemployment -- Age demography -- Increased mobility -- 1.4. A competitive environment -- Increased competitiveness in a merged region? -- 1.5. Economic performances in the Öresund -- Distribution of wealth -- Core and peripherial issues -- Chapter 2. Strategies and Policies  -- 2.1. Strategies -- Introduction -- The Öresund Region: an old idea made new -- A sustainable region -- Öresund and national regional policies -- EU cross-border policy initiatives for the Öresund Region -- Assessing the degree of integration -- Conclusions -- 2.2. Physical capital: infrastructure and the fixed link -- The consequences of the bridge's opening  -- Conclusions -- 2.3. Shaping a common labour market -- Future prospects for labour mobility -- Differences of national labour market regulatory system -- Main obstacles to labour mobility -- Current policies to advance the integration of the labour markets -- Conclusions -- 2.4. Competitiveness-enhancing policies: networking and knowledge -- Building capabilities that enhance innovation -- The Öresund structure -- Actors and networking strategies -- Existing challenges for networking and knowledge development -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3. Governance without Government  -- 3.1. Emergence of cross-border governance -- Some theoretical considerations -- Cross-border governance in Europe -- EU cross-border initiatives and the INTERREG programme -- 3.2. Governing Öresund -- Cross-border governance in the Nordic framework -- Governance framework in the Öresund Region -- 3.3. Co-ordination between two governments on Öresund: the example of taxation -- 3.4. Governance reforms in the Öresund - some discussion points -- Institutionalisation -- Taxation across the border -- Metropolitan governance -- Inclusion of the private sector -- Integration of INTERREG -- Democratic accountability and legitimacy -- 3.5. Conclusions -- Annex: Benchmarking Cross-Border Regions -- Introduction -- Learning from North America: promoting functional co-operation based on economic interdependencies -- Economic integration and local partnership initiatives: the example of Detroit-Windsor (United States-Canada)  -- Regional NGOs: the example of the Cascadia region (United States-Canada)
OECD's comprehensive territorial review of the Oresund region of Denmark and Sweden. Competitiveness is increasingly cited as the key objective of regional economic policy. In the same way that company executives strive to improve their market share and national governments are introducing competitiveness strategies, policy makers in urban areas are looking for ways to increase or maintain the competitive edge of their cities. This is a daunting task in any situation, but particularly so when, as in this case, the functional economic area concerned stretches across national boundaries. The constituent regions of Öresund, comprising the island of Zealand in Denmark, home of Copenhagen, and Sweden's Skåne region which hosts the country's third biggest city, Malmö are both wealthy areas. It is a "learning region" and has a strong presence in some high technology sectors. As such, the key to future growth is not simply the creation of a fixed link between the two parts of the region or improved flexibility in an expanded labour market. The region must look outward and compete with other metropolitan areas to retain and augment the assets that give it, at present, a strong competitive position in the "new economy".
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Urban, Rural and Regional Development
Governance
OECD Territorial Reviews