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from 20-Jan-2011 to 21-Jan-2011
OECD Territorial Reviews: Switzerland 2011 offers a comprehensive assessment of the country's New Regional Policy, implemented following the 2002 review. It examines the role of innovation in Swiss regions and provides insight into how to better optimise the innovation promotion policy instruments put in place by the Confederation and the cantons. At a two-day seminar on the theme of innovation in regions, organised at Coire, Switzerland, the OECD will launch the review and present its conclusions and recommendations.
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on 30-Nov-2010
This workshop will address ways to exploit a new analytical framework to assess urban and rural linkages. Discussants will consider a broader range of interactions between urban and rural areas, with a focus on two core governance issues: land use and water.
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on 07-Jun-2010
Community empowerment and land occupancy are the aims of of Québec's rural policy approach. This review advocates a focus on social development, stabilisation measures in lagging areas, and the protection of natural resources.
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from 03-Apr-2008 to 04-Apr-2008
The international conference on "Innovative Service Delivery: Meeting the Challenges of Rural Regions”, co-organised by the OECD and Germany’s Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, was held 3-4 April 2008 at the Dorint Hotel, in Cologne, Germany. It brought together approximately 250 government leaders, policy makers and practitioners to discuss ways to improve service delivery in rural regions and maximise the contribution of service delivery to rural development.
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from 19-Sep-2007 to 21-Sep-2007
The OECD international conference "Globally Competitive, Locally Engaged - Higher Education and Regions" in Valencia, Spain, looked at ways in which higher education institutions could best contribute to region building in the knowledge-based economy. The sessions drew from the OECD review project entitled “Supporting the Contribution of Higher Education to Regional Development”, as well as the earlier work on the OECD territorial reviews.
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on 20-Jun-2007
The Symposium, Setting standards for local public goods provision: challenges for regional development, is co-organised by the OECD and the Italian Department for Development Policies, of the Ministry of Economic Development, in Rome, Italy.
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from 14-May-2007 to 16-May-2007
The third Global City Forum, the international urban management summit, took place in Lyon’s Congress Centre, 14-16 May 2007.
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from 31-May-2007 to 01-Jun-2007
OECD and Nutek welcome policy makers to take part in the conference "Global Challenges - Regional Strategies: Are today's policies fit for the future?", 31 May - 1 June 2007 in Stockholm, Sweden.
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on 11-Apr-2007
This publication was officially launched on April 11, in The Hague, in presence of the Minister of the Economy and the Minister of Transport, followed by a one-day conference on the implementation of the key recommendations of the Review. Public officials, representatives of central and local governments, mayors, CEOs, academics, civil society representatives attended the conference and the different workshops.
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from 21-Mar-2007 to 23-Mar-2007
More than 150 senior policy officials and experts from 21 OECD countries and delegations from India and Morocco attended this event which was inaugurated by the Prince of Asturias and Mr. Angel Gurría, Secretary General of the OECD. In 6 plenary sessions, participants discussed the importance of innovation for rural regions and the critical role of human capital and ICTs in enabling these regions to succeed in the context of globalisation.
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