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• SPIDER Project
• Increasing regional competitiveness through
  futures research methods
• Wallonia in 2020 Future Issues, Future Citizens
• Expert workshop, Brussels, January 27, 2005
• Philippe Destatte Pascale Van Doren
• Institut Jules-Destrée

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Background to the SPIDER foresight analysis in
Wallonia
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Development of culture foresight in Wallonia (1)

1985paradigm change, passage to a cognitive
society and an intentional break with the idea
of decline, the educational challenge,
competitiveness and employment, innovation ,
foresight and evaluation2000
1985-1988 La Wallonie au futur, Vers un nouveau
paradigme 1988-1994 La Wallonie au futur, Le
défi de lÉducation 1994-1996 La Wallonie au
futur, Quelles stratégies pour lemploi
? 1996-2000 La Wallonie au futur, Sortir du
XXème siècle évaluation, innovation,
prospective
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Development of culture foresight in Wallonia
(2) 2000From Foresight to new Governances and
Knowledge Regions
1999 Création de la Société wallonne de
lÉvaluation et de la Prospective 2000 Colloque
Prospective et développement régional 2000-2004
Mission Prospective Wallonie 21 2001-2004 La
Wallonie au futur Wallonie 2020 2002-
Province de Luxembourg 2010 Province de Liège
2020 Le Pays de Herve au futur
Zukunftsbild / Vision 2020 Grande Région
ProspEnWal 4 X 4 pour entreprendre 2003
Blueprint for Foresight Actions in the
Regions Création de lIWEPS 2004 Régions de
la Connaissance (SPIDER, METAFORESIGHT) Charlero
i 2020
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SPIDER knowledge initial base (1)
Civil Society
Exercise of normative foresight to include
citizen participation starting with the actors
Exploratory foresight studies as the groundwork
for a strategic vision involving the actors
The State
Exercise of normative foresight, associating
company directors, experts and public deciders
The Private sector
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SPIDER knowledge initial base (2) Competitive
positioning of Wallonia in the framework of the
implementation of the Lisbon strategies in the EU
regions (Direction Générale de lEconomie et de
lEmploi, July 2004)

• Overview of the performances in the Walloon
  Region (competitiveness and attractiveness)
• Indicators available at regional level for which
  a comparison at European level is possible
• Matter for thought about the vision and policies
  to be developed and implemented at Walloon level
  to ensure the Region's contribution to the
  realisation of Lisbon objectives
• Important base for the factual data to the more
  qualitative complementary foresight exercises

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SPIDER knowledge development base The Regional
Foresight College A new process of collective
learning
EC Foresight Initiatives
DATAR
Civil Society
Public Sector
A Region of Knowledge, Learning and Creativity
ONGOING FORUM TO RENEW OUR SOCIETAL MODEL
Millenium Project
Private Sector
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Fields of actions for the positioning of
Wallonia in the Regions of Knowledge Some
guidelines for the construction of a Knowledge
Region
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Starting from the acquis of the foresight
exercises conducted in Wallonia
ProspEnWal
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Strategic environment for foresight exercises in
Wallonia
The Society of Knowledge (Lisbon 2010)
Learning and Creative Region (2020)
Updated Contract for the Future 1999-2009
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Action principles of Contract for Future

• constant concern for working conditions and the
  quality of life
• equal opportunities
• administrative simplification in all fields and
  modernisation of the administration
• constant search for total quality
• systematic showcasing of Wallonia's success
  stories
• networking of all actors
• culture of evaluation
• concentration of initiatives and means
• mobility policy, socially oriented and
  respectful of the environment
• need of systematic communication of public
  measures effects
• administrations bridging
• development of foresight as a priority tool to
  support governance
• identification of cooperation procedures between
  Walloon Region and Wallonia-Brussels Community.
• Walloon Government, February 2002 and May 2004

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Foresight and Region of Knowledge for Wallonia
what vision(s)?
K N O W L E D G E R E G I O N
C O N T R A C T F O R F U T U R E
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W A L L O N I A
Foresight Mission Wallonia 21 (MPW21)
T E N D E N C I E S
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I S S U E S
L I S B O N
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Wallonia 2020
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Entreprise Foresight
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Fields of change challenges
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Towards a Region of Knowledge in Wallonia
Internationalisation
Measure of performance in the knowledge society
Renewal of the mechanisms of learning
Professionalisation of the networks
Social capitalisation
Reinforcement of regional interests
European contracting
Optimal use of governance in a complex system
Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin OECD, Lisbon 2003
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How to go further in the Knowledge Region
comprehension and building?
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1.The creativity of the territories as a vector
of transition towards Regions of
Knowledge? Tolerance, Creativity and Economic
Growth
Richard FLORIDA Irène TINAGLI, Europe in the
Creative Age, Février 2004.
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Nombre of workers in the creativity sector in
industrialized countries
Richard Florida 2002
30
25
20
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1900
1930
1950
2000
2020
1980
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2. Inadequacy of the traditional concepts in the
transition towards the Knowedge Society and the
research into new tools to evaluate
potentials?   What is valuable, is information
sorted out, organised into a hierarchy,
articulated with other information to form
knowledge   André-Yves PORTNOFF Véronique
LAMBLIN, 2003
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Thank you ! Philippe Destatte Pascale Van
Doren destatte.ph_at_destree.org vandoren.pascale_at_de
stree.org