ALERTING YOUR COMMUNITY TO THE DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES OF THE GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

1. ALERTING YOUR COMMUNITY TO THE DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES OF THE GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY by Mark I. Wilson and Kenneth E. Corey Urban & Regional Planning Program and Community & Economic Development Program (CEDP) Michigan State University Port Huron, Michigan -- April 21, 2005

2. OVERVIEW • Awareness • Layers • E-Business • Responsiveness • Talk = • ALERT

3. Awareness

4. KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY • An economy that relies increasingly on technology and knowledge as factors of production & wealth creation – in addition to labor & capital • Technology & knowledge are transforming wealth-creation work from physically-based functions to knowledge-based functions • K-Economy Index for the “St. Clair City-Region” & add’l tailored measures

5. SPACE AND TIME Michigan Planning and Development Regions

7. SE MICHIGAN SURVEY 2004 • Frequency of Access: High daily use • Form of Access: Non-broadband • Internet essential: Strong/some • Not affect quality of life: Higher agree • Ability to use Internet: Good, can improve • All MI residents should have Internet access: General agreement

8. ST CLAIR ISSUES

9. ST CLAIR OPINION

10. Layers

11. MICHIGAN LAYERS World Knowledge Regions Biotech/Pharma Specialization Tech Clusters: Smart Zones Biosciences Firms Specialization Tertiary Education Empty Areas/New Areas/New Spaces Mediated by E-Responsive Regions Mediated by Spatial Distribution of Distressed Areas

12. E-Business

13. DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHIES (Relations/Processes and Space/Time) The functions and factors that are characterized by clustering and spatial concentration are identified with a “C.” Those that are characterized by dispersion and spatial deconcentration are identified with a “D.”

14. Responsiveness

15. PLANS OPPORTUNITIES STAKEHOLDERS : • Business & Organized Labor • B2C • B2B • Layers (location of sales/employment) • Government, G2C, G2G, G2B • Online services & Web-site of econ dev planning • Layers (national, state, local) • E-government & E-democracy • Individuals & Institutional Governance • Internet access and use; BB by 2007 • E-governance

18. Web-Site Perception Analysis Map: Michigan’s Counties

19. DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT • “Digital development” is: the application of information and communications technologies (ICT) to community and economic development • This application is facilitated by ICT infrastructure, such as high-speed broadband network and connections

20. MICHIGAN POLICIES (Relations/Processes and Space/Time) The functions and factors that are characterized by clustering and spatial concentration are identified with a “C.” Those that are characterized by dispersion and spatial deconcentration are identified with a “D.”

21. INTELLIGENT DEVELOPMENT • Draws on contemporary research and theory • Aware of best planning practice • Investments in places and regions for wealth creation, higher wage employment, improved quality of life & balanced just development

22. INTELLIGENT DEVELOPMENT • Development planning, therefore, is “intelligent” when these best practices are influenced by appropriate theory, benchmarked and the latest science and technologies are utilized fully to develop a community and region holistically, equitably, and multifunctionally, including amenity factors. Goes beyond “digital development.”

23. Talk!

24. GOVERNANCE IMPLICATIONS • Scenarios for intelligent development • State/regions as passive or proactive? • Focus not only on success at advanced end of spectrum, but there is the need for benefits also to serve distressed areas of the region and its localities. • Regional planners can engage in intelligent development to plan for more competitive sub-state planning regions in the global knowledge economy

25. SCENARIO 1 Distressed Communities = Geography of Economic Distress + Geography of E-Responsiveness

28. SCENARIO 2 Spreading the Benefits = Pre-Existing Potential Institutions + Planned Relationships

30. SCENARIO 3 Human Resources Linkages = Education Institutions + Performance + Enterprise Culture + Smart Zones + Distressed Cities

34. ALERT! A Model for Local and Regional Planning Practice in the Global Knowledge Economy & Network Society

35. ACTION When You Leave Here Today Focus on: • Human Resources, Talent & Human Capital • Development of an Enterprise Culture • Private-Public Partnerships of Stakeholders: Leadership, Vision, Champion(s) • Change Mindsets & Governance of Leaders & Planners: Embed Intelligent Development & Equity into your Policy Formulation & Planning Practice Behaviors !!! • Now, how might you begin to practice ALERT in your strategic planning?

36. ST CLAIR CITY-REGION [Planners and Stakeholders, Fill In the Blank Cells Below !] The functions and factors that are characterized by clustering and spatial concentration are identified with a “C.” Those that are characterized by dispersion and spatial deconcentration are identified with a “D.”

38. WHAT DO WE DO NEXT? Complete region’s BB rollout (digital dev) BB “essential” public infrastructure; control or ownership by the community; see: www.designnine.com/news Draw on & expand from Cool Cities Project Plan region’s content (intelligent dev) Fill in e-biz cells & develop cell networks Relationships & connectivities w/i & between Practice new governance: leadership (plnrs) & division of labor (roles) by content among region’s stakeholders (actors); CATeam MEDC Networking & social capital development Sustained long-term effort in planning & implementation will be required !!!

39. MINDSET CHANGE • Immediately, post a good Web site! • Benchmark it; Fairfax County, VA • Innovate! “New” Civics & Planning • Begin to conceive StCC-R as a hinge • Sarnia/Ontario/Canada/World • Innovation Systems Research Network/RIS/David Wolfe, University of Toronto • New Leadership/New Governance

40. CONTACT Kenneth E. Corey Kenneth.Corey@ssc.msu.edu Mark I. Wilson wilsonmm@msu.edu Eric W. Frederick www.asis.org/Bulletin/Dec-04/frederick.html www.smartmichigan.org