An article by Paul Krugman (New York Times, 19/05/11) identifies the first signs of recovery in manufacturing production in the USA. These signs are manifested in a rise in manufacturing jobs and a reduction in the manufacturing trade deficit. The Regional Development team at the Reut Institute identified similar early signs in Barcelona.
Posts Tagged ‘Regional Development’
Industrial Renaissance in Developed Countries?
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged employment policy, Regional Development, unique & global development policy on July 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Applying Nanotechnology to Regional Development
Posted in Regional Leapfrogging, tagged Bottom up processes, economic development, innovation, Regional Development, self-assembly on August 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last week the team met with Dr. Miri Yemini, Director of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (EIC) at the Shamoon College of Engineering, and lecturer at the Ben-Gurion University.
Will Negev Unemployment Really Increase Without the Ofer Brothers?
Posted in Regional Leapfrogging, tagged Regional Development, socio-economic leapfrogging, unique & global development policy on August 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A recent article in Haaretz reported that Israel Chemicals, an Israeli company based in the Negev, is seeking to protect the benefits it receives from state grants. While several government ministries have called to cancel these grants, Israel Chemicals argues that doing so would force it to dismiss a large part of its workforce in [...]
Railways are not the Easy Answer for Israel’s Remote Communities
Posted in Regional Leapfrogging, tagged Quality of Life, Regional Development, socio-economic leapfrogging on July 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Government of Israel and others have repeated the same thesis for quite some time: that an advanced railway network linking the remote areas of Israel to its urban center will have two positive effects. One, it will narrow the present socio-economic divide between remote and urban communities; and two, as this divide narrows and [...]
Strengthening the Attractiveness of Regions in Israel’s Periphery
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged Bottom up processes, ISRAEL 15 Vision, Regional Development, socio-economic leapfrogging, unique & global development policy on May 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One of the main goals of Israel’s master plan TAMA 35, is to encourage development and growth of the Negev and Galilee regions. However, according to the plan’s monitoring team, the fundamental failure of its implementation is in attracting people to move to those regions: The current population in the north and south are far [...]
bio negev: an innovation cluster in the negev region
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged Bottom up processes, Regional Development, socio-economic leapfrogging, unique & global development policy on April 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The ‘Bio-Negev’ venture, that was recently launched by Vice Prime Minister and Minister of the Development of the Negev and Galilee – Silvan Shalom, is a regional center aiming to encourage innovation in the field of Biotechnology and life science. This venture, based on the model of economic clusters, is aimed at encouraging cooperation between [...]
The challenge of measuring the quality of life
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged Bottom up processes, growth, ISRAEL 15 Vision, Quality of Life, Regional Development, socio-economic leapfrogging on March 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Reut’s regional development team recently participated in a meeting organized by ELKA, regarding measuring quality of life in Israel. Head of Israel’s Progress Index project (“Erech”), Anat Itay spoke about the process of defining, measuring and fostering an alternative index to GDP, which would focus on a variety of components of quality of life, in [...]
How to encourage cooperation between authorities and periphery?
Posted in Regional Leapfrogging, tagged Arab sector, municipal, preiphery, Regional Development, Sikkuy on February 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, Reut’s regional development team met with the organization Sikkuy to learn more about the project of municipal cooperation between Jewish and Arab local authorities in Wadi Ara.
Regionalism (13): Trains Alone Will Not Solve the Periphery’s Problems
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, Regional Leapfrogging, tagged accessibility, ISRAEL 15 Vision, Regional Development, Regional Leapfrogging, transportation on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
While railways in Israel are perceived as a magic solution to the periphery’s development, a recent roundtable held at Hebrew University which dealt with transportation and economic development raised reservations as to its usefulness.
An economic cluster and regional leapfrogging
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged ISRAEL 15 Vision, Regional Development, Regional Leapfrogging, socio-economic leapfrogging, unique assets on January 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The regional development team has uploaded a term defining an economic cluster. An economic cluster is a dense network of companies and institutions in a certain geographic sphere. An economic cluster that is based on the region’s unique assets is an appropriate structure through which regional leapfrogging can be promoted.
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