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Regional Governance and Private-Public Partnerships

Explore the challenges and opportunities in regional governance and private-public partnerships for sustainable economic development. Learn about the benefits, guidelines, and potential dangers associated with these collaborations.

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Regional Governance and Private-Public Partnerships

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  1. Regional Governance and Private-Public Partnerships Vittorio Modena

  2. The triple (quadruple?) helix Researchers seeking scientific results Enterprises seeking expansion Policy makers seeking sustainable economic development Private investors seeking profit V.Modena - Regions for economic change. Bruxelles, March 7th, 2007

  3. How to make it work? What laws, what schemes, what organizations, what networks will make these different interests converge and make the region blossom? V.Modena - Regions for economic change. Bruxelles, March 7th, 2007

  4. Multiregional governance - a European challenge Many projects are very suitable for the multi-regional level: -What legal/political problems accompany them? -What are the best forms of governance for such projects? V.Modena - Regions for economic change. Bruxelles, March 7th, 2007

  5. Public-Private Partnership,Rationale and Framework • The private sector seems to be more efficient in managing projects • The public sector funding is needed to overcome market failures Incentives to attract private capital and management and overcome market failures Restrictions to direct the investment into publicly desirable projects V.Modena - Regions for economic change. Bruxelles, March 7th, 2007

  6. PPP - Guidelines Incentives Should be: - Strong enough to address market failures -Not enough to make anything worth while e.g - Grants, loans, tax allowances (national, regional and local) Restrictions Should be: -Strong enough to direct the investment into publicly desirable projects -Not strong enough to make projects commercially impossible e.g. - to invest only in certain geographic areas, to invest only in certain sectors, to run precompetitive research projects V.Modena - Regions for economic change. Bruxelles, March 7th, 2007

  7. PPP - Dangers -Forgetting the regional/local comparative advantage -Bureaucracy -Public agenda interfering with commercial decisions -Private investment departing from the original mission Wasting public moneys V.Modena - Regions for economic change. Bruxelles, March 7th, 2007

  8. PPP example - the ESTER project in Latvia (I) A public fund of funds was set up with 16m. It has coinvested (at 50%) into three seed funds with private entities. -Both the private investors and the managements companies received strong incentives. -Funds are restricted to invest into small firms and up to a certain amount per firm (seed capital). -Management is strictly private with public sector only allowed to monitor V.Modena - Regions for economic change. Bruxelles, March 7th, 2007

  9. PPP example - the ESTER project in Latvia (II) Public Fund of Funds 50% Private investors 50% Start-up fund (private) Company Company Company V.Modena - Regions for economic change. Bruxelles, March 7th, 2007

  10. Thank you ! Email: vmodena@fastwebnet.it Tel. +3933574288951 Web www.venturepolicy.com ESTER Project http://www.unipv.it/ester/index.html V.Modena - Regions for economic change. Bruxelles, March 7th, 2007

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