Regional Development Processes

Regional Western Australia will continue to be a key contributor to the nation’s well being. The future success of rural and regional areas will depend on attracting investors and visitors, encouraging new residents to settle, and enabling existing residents to remain. The facilities and services in rural and regional areas of the State will pr ....

Regional Development Victoria's annual report highlighting its role in new investment, business growth and job creation, infrastructure development, instigating policy and planning initiatives, and co-ordinating the delivery of government programs, services and resources in rural and regional Victoria. Report Locationhttp://www.rdv.vic.gov.au/_ ....

While all enterprises from time to time experience difficulties in accessing the particular education and training they need to meet their skill requirements, those in regional areas sometimes face greater challenges, particularly if they are located at some distance from metropolitan centres. These difficulties can occur at any ti ....

This paper focuses on regional development. It draws attention to the considerable diversity of nonmetropolitan regional conditions and explains the processes underlying them; identifies the potential for considerable community conflict on many issues; discusses policy dilemmas and the responsibilities and roles of different tiers ....

This research examines the question - 'Does the tertiary education sector in Australia provide courses, modules and/​or subjects on aspects of regional/​economic development to meet the professional needs of practitioners in their field?' Chapter One provides an overview of the study and proposes five research questions which are addressed in ....

In early 2003 the Federal Government will receive a major report on regional business performance and impediments to employment and enterprise growth in regional Australia. This is a major opportunity to draw together into an integrated plan for the regions the key drivers for regional development. Amongst the central issues the report must de ....

The Plan focuses on the following levers that government can influence to facilitate economic development: • Infrastructure• Skills• Business enabling environment• Access to finance• Investment attraction, facilitation and retention• Trade promotion, branding and marketing• Business development services• Facilitation, information ....

There are several characteristics of this regional economic development plan: To develop it, a whole-of-government approach was adopted, drawing on economic development programs, initiatives and actions being undertaken in Tasmania and, in particular, in the northern region, by the three levels of government. The Plan acknowledges that commun ....

There are several characteristics of this regional economic development plan: To develop it, a whole-of-government approach wasadopted, drawing on economic development programs, initiatives and actions being undertaken in Tasmania and, in particular, in the southern region, by the three levels of government. The Plan acknowledg ....

The book is about the analysis of regional economic performance and change, and how analysis integrates with strategies for local and regional economic development policy and planning. First, the book provides the reader with an overview of key theoretical and conceptual contexts within which the economic development process takes place. However, ....

This paper compares regional innovation policy of the Roh Moo-hyun administration, or so-called the "participatory government," of South Korea with that of the EU (European Union), with a view to drawing some lessons from the latter for the former. Since regional innovation policy of the participatory government has too short a period of time to ....

Regional innovations systems are a response to the emerging view in the 1990s that national innovation systems were not necessarily successful in addressing the challenge of competitiveness in period of globalisation. Indeed, with the emergence of clusters as a local innovation system much of the emphasis on competitive advant ....

This Briefing Paper presents a comparative economic survey of the regions ofNSW. Presented are key economic indicators for each region, as well asgovernment initiatives to encourage regional development. Similar initiatives inother selected jurisdictions are also noted and assessed. Report Locationhttp://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/ ....

The election of Helen Clark's centre-left Labour Government in New Zealand in 1999 saw the reemergence of regional development as a key national policy. Prior to this New Zealand had seen 15 years of 'new right' economics and politics where central government intervention in areas such as regional development was not favoured. Whil ....