Bearing is often working on city and regional development strategies, and most often, the places we work with face similar challenges. Retention and attraction of talents and Investments has always been important to economic development, but it is even more critical to building competitive regions in today’s post-crises economy. Through the history of economic development,… Continue reading The New Context of Regional Development Strategies
Category: RIS3
Place Excellence in the Age of Globalisation and Austerity
“..because the execution of an idea is always more important than the brilliance of the thought..” – Executing Your Strategy – by Morgan, Levitt & Maleck – Harvard Business Publishing During the last few decades, the challenges to manage cities and towns has become increasingly more complex. Today we live in a time that for… Continue reading Place Excellence in the Age of Globalisation and Austerity
China embarks on the route of Design as driver for Innovation and Sustainable Growth
Last week I was invited by the Dragon Design Foundation in Beijing, People’s Republic of China (PRC), to attend and give a speech at the 2014 World Green Design Forum Summit in Yangzhou. I have for the last ten days had the opportunity and great pleasure to take part in and exchange thoughts, ideas and… Continue reading China embarks on the route of Design as driver for Innovation and Sustainable Growth
Pula Kulturring
When thinking about vacations and deciding where to go this summer, if you are considering Croatia then a good option can be Pula. We have got to know Pula quite well over the past five months and last Friday, March 21st, a Bearing team presented a pre-feasibility study of the potential of Pula Kulturring in… Continue reading Pula Kulturring
East Sweden Region – the county of Östergötland’s adaptation of RIS3
Yesterday I published a brief article about what we mean with RIS3. Today I will tell you a bit about the implementation of RIS3 in the East Sweden Region, where we are working on developing and now implementing smart specialisation since more than one year. Strategic governance and operationalisation There is currently extensive work within… Continue reading East Sweden Region – the county of Östergötland’s adaptation of RIS3
RIS3 – What is it?
The Global Financial Crisis It is six years ago now, since the global financial crises hit us. It is considered by many economists the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s and it resulted in the collapse of large financial institutions, the bailout of banks by national governments, and downturns in stock… Continue reading RIS3 – What is it?
Visit Östergötland Place Management Development Workshop
In partnership with East Sweden Business Region (ESBR) and Visit Östergötland, Bearing held a Place Management development seminar and workshop on the 20th November at the beautiful Hemslöjden building in Linköping, Sweden. This seminar was one in a series of four where the goal is to prepare the regions’ tourism and hospitality industry for the… Continue reading Visit Östergötland Place Management Development Workshop
Bearing in the news – Salona archaeological park
On Tuesday June 11, Jörgen Eriksson from Bearing participated as expert speaker at an event in Solin, outside of Split in the Dalmatia region of Croatia. The event was well attended by media, including national television and national and regional newspapers. Click on the picture on the right to view an article. The topic of… Continue reading Bearing in the news – Salona archaeological park
Regional development in East Sweden
On Tuesday April 16, I visited the East Sweden region to give a speech on development in the European Union and the EU Horizon 2020 strategy, at a regional conference in Åtvidaberg. The conference was about the smart specialization strategies for the region. We have written about the RIS3 framework and smart specialization previously on… Continue reading Regional development in East Sweden
News for East Sweden Business Region
Through competing in public procurement, Bearing has secured an exciting project with focus on business development, entrepreneurship, and organisational development for the expanding East Sweden Business Region (ESBR). East Sweden is a region driven by the two principal cities of Linköping and Norrköping and eleven smaller towns. It has 430,000 inhabitants and covers an area… Continue reading News for East Sweden Business Region