Future challenges CompetitivenessAttractiveness

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Future challenges Competitiveness/Attractiveness

• Prof. Christophe Clivaz
• christophe.clivaz_at_hevs.ch
• Alpine Space Heading for Excellence
• St. Johann im Pongau, Austria, 28th June 2007

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Challenges

• Development of (new) economic activities
• Good governance and co-operation

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Level of education in Switzerland
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Characteristics of mountain regions in Switzerland

• More old people
• Less working people
• Less people with university degree
• More secondary homes
• BUT
• There is often more differences between centers
  and peripherical areas than between mountains
  regions and non-mountain regions

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Pendular balance in Switzerland
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(New) economic activities?

• What about agriculture ?
• (New) forms of tourism agritourism, health
  tourism, culture tourism, ecotourism
• Water how to better use this ressource?
• Energy can the Alpine Space be innovative in
  this sector ?
• ICT a lot of promises, a lot of deceptions, and
  now ?
• How to stop the brain drain ?
• How to quit very peripherical areas ?

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Governance and co-operation

• Co-operation capacities between economic actors
  (intra and inter-sector)
• Public-private Partnership
• New models of governance/management (more
  participation)
• Networking of actors / ideas
• Co-operation between urban and non urban areas
• Co-operation with the metropolitan areas

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Thank you for your attention!

• christophe.clivaz_at_hevs.ch
• 41 (0)27 606 90 06