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
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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
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Foresight Mission Wallonia 21
(MPW21)
Wallonia2020
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Foresight and Region of Knowledge for Wallonia — what vision(s)?
Fields of change
challenges
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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.
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Nombre of workers in the creativitysector in industrialized countries
Richard Florida2002
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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