SPIDER Project Increasing regional competitiveness through futures research methods Wallonia in 2020: Future Issues, Future Citizens Expert workshop, Brussels,

SPIDER Project

Increasing regional competitiveness through futures research methods

Wallonia in 2020: Future Issues, Future Citizens

Expert workshop, Brussels, January 27, 2005

Philippe Destatte & Pascale Van DorenInstitut Jules-Destrée

Background to the SPIDER foresight analysis in Wallonia

Development of culture foresight in Wallonia (1)

1985-1988 : La Wallonie au futur, Vers un nouveau paradigme

1988-1994 : La Wallonie au futur, Le défi de l’Éducation

1994-1996 : La Wallonie au futur, Quelles stratégies pour l’emploi ?

1996-2000 : La Wallonie au futur, Sortir du XXème siècle : évaluation, innovation, prospective

1985…paradigm change, passage to a cognitive society and an intentional break with the idea of decline, the educational challenge, competitiveness and employment, innovation , foresight and evaluation…2000

1999 : Création de la Société wallonne de l’Évaluation et de la Prospective

2000 : Colloque Prospective et développement régional

2000-2004 : Mission Prospective Wallonie 212001-2004 : La Wallonie au futur : Wallonie 20202002- : Province de Luxembourg 2010

Province de Liège 2020 Le Pays de Herve au futur Zukunftsbild / Vision 2020 Grande Région ProspEnWal 4 X 4 pour entreprendre

2003 : Blueprint for Foresight Actions in the RegionsCréation de l’IWEPS

2004 : Régions de la Connaissance (SPIDER, METAFORESIGHT)

Charleroi 2020

Development of culture foresight in Wallonia (2)

2000…From Foresight to new Governances and Knowledge Regions…

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Exercise of normative foresight, associating company directors,

experts and public deciders

Exercise of norm

ative foresight

to include citizen participation

starting with the actors

The State

Civil Society

The Private sector

SPIDER knowledge initial base (1)

SPIDER knowledge initial base (2)

Competitive positioning of Wallonia in the framework of the implementation of the Lisbon strategies in the EU

regions (Direction Générale de l’Economie et de l’Emploi, July 2004)

- Overview of the performances in the Walloon Region (competitiveness and attractiveness);

- Indicators available at regional level for which a comparison at European level is possible;

- Matter for thought about the vision and policies to be developed and implemented at Walloon level to ensure the Region's contribution to the realisation of Lisbon objectives;

- Important base for the factual data to the more qualitative complementary foresight exercises

Public Sector

Civil Society

Private Sector

A Region of Knowledge, Learning and Creativity

SPIDER knowledge development baseThe Regional Foresight College : A new process of collective learning

ONGOING FORUMTO RENEW OUR SOCIETALMODEL

DATAR

Millenium Project

EC Foresight Initiatives…

Fields of actions for the positioning of Wallonia in the Regions of Knowledge :

Some guidelines for the construction of a Knowledge Region

ProspEnWal

Starting from the acquis of the foresight exercises conducted in Wallonia

Strategic environment for foresight exercises in Wallonia

The Society of Knowledge

(Lisbon 2010)

Learning and Creative Region

(2020)

Updated Contract for the Future 1999-2009

Action principles of Contract for Future

- constant concern for working conditions and the quality of life;- equal opportunities;- administrative simplification in all fields and modernisation of the

administration;- constant search for total quality;- systematic showcasing of Wallonia's success stories;- networking of all actors;- culture of evaluation; - concentration of initiatives and means;- mobility policy, socially oriented and respectful of the environment;- need of systematic communication of public measures effects;- administrations bridging;- development of foresight as a priority tool to support governance;- identification of cooperation procedures between Walloon Region

and Wallonia-Brussels Community.

Walloon Government, February 2002 and May 2004

CONTRACT

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KNOWLEDGE

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Foresight Mission Wallonia 21

(MPW21)

Wallonia2020

WALLONIA

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Foresight and Region of Knowledge for Wallonia — what vision(s)?

Fields of change

challenges

TENDENCIES

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EntrepriseForesight

Towards a Region of Knowledge in Wallonia

Stéphan Vincent-LancrinOECD, Lisbon 2003

Social capitalisation

Reinforcement of regional interests

European contracting

Renewal of the mechanisms of

learning

Professionalisationof the networks

Optimal use of governance in a complex system

Internationalisation

Measure of performance in the knowledge society

How to go further in the Knowledge Region comprehension and building?

1.The creativity of the territories as a vector of transition towards Regions of Knowledge?Tolerance, Creativity and Economic Growth

Richard FLORIDA & Irène TINAGLI,Europe in the Creative Age, Février 2004.

1900 1950 2000

15 %20 %

25 %

30 %

1980 1930

Nombre of workers in the creativitysector in industrialized countries

Richard Florida2002

2020

2. Inadequacy of the traditional concepts in the transition towards the Knowedge Society and the research into new tools to evaluate potentials? 

What is valuable, is information sorted out, organised into a hierarchy, articulated with other information to

form knowledge

André-Yves PORTNOFF & Véronique LAMBLIN, 2003

Thank you !Thank you !

Philippe DestattePhilippe DestattePascale Van DorenPascale Van Doren

destatte.ph@destree.orgvandoren.pascale@destree.orgvandoren.pascale@destree.org