Silke N. Haarich

• PhD
• Consultant at Spatial Foresight GmbH

This article addresses the question of how complex interventions can be adequately assessed with limited resources. In 2011, the European Commission presented the Social Business Initiative (SBI), a framework initiative to develop a favourable environment for social enterprises and the social economy. The complexity of the programme stems from its...

This study aimed to map and analyse the deployment of bioeconomy strategies at regional level in the EU-27. It was conducted from July 2021 to March 2022 and covered regulatory frameworks in place or under development as of November 2021. The focus was on regions at NUTS 1 and NUTS 2 territorial levels. The NUTS 3 level was only analysed in cases w...

In May 2019, DG MARE and the JRC published its Blue economy Report. The main focus was on boosting a “blue” economy, the sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth, through entrepreneurship, investment, and research and innovation. In order to better understand and illustrate the new opportunities coming from the Blue economy, this repo...

Networks are increasingly used in public policy to tackle ever more complex societal challenges. Multi-stakeholder governance systems have been set up to strengthen regional innovation systems, to fight the consequences of climate change and to tackle social change. However, multiple challenges mean that evaluating these networks and governance sys...

Notwithstanding the heterogeneity of the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) sectors, all of them exhibit similar causes of market failure and face similar challenges related to the digital shift and to increasing globalisation. CCI share a common need for policy intervention to correct their market failures facing the digital and globalization...

In 2015, the Regional Studies Association (RSA) celebrated 50 years and one of the keywords of this (hi)story is “impactful”. Having an impact requires to be able to bring research-based knowledge to policymakers moving out of the academic ‘Ivory Tower’ and engaging in policy debate, thus acknowledging the societal role of research. Yet, this requi...

Innovative and competitive regional development processes involve tangible and intangible assets. Hard factors such as infrastructure, etc. can usually be identified and measured quite easily. On the other hand, intangible factors, such as cultural and organizational (networking, leadership, trust, cooperation, etc.) assets needed to promote innova...

Macro-regional strategies are integrated governance frameworks which allow different countries and regions in a defined geographical area to address common challenges, thereby benefitting from strengthened cooperation contributing to common development goals. Currently, there are four macro-regional strategies in place in the European Union (Baltic...

Regional development is increasingly subject to evaluation in order to present specific results and socioeconomic impact. There is still a challenge if we refer to intangible assets needed to support regional development and innovation, such as networking, cooperation. This paper presents a new method to measure progress on intangible assets in reg...

This paper aims to show the levels of local and regional embeddedness of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (GMB) as well as its effects on the position of Bilbao within global networks. Although it is often said that the GMB as an international art franchise did not fit well with the local traditions, values and culture of Bilbao and the Basque Country,...

Places and their public authorities increasingly perceive art branding as a tool for raising place visibility, attracting investment and tourism, and enhancing their cultural profiles. Online news aggregators offer new potential for measuring the degree to which places associated with art are "seen" in the media. The authors design and test a metho...

Alter Bilbaomond! Wo noch die Liebe lohnt Ich kann den Text nicht mehr. s' ist schon lange her Ich weiß ja nicht, ob Ihnen so was grad gefällt, doch: es war das Schönste, es war das Schönste, es war das Schönste auf der Welt. Eine Stadt wird weltbekannt – Bilbao und sein Guggenheim Museum Noch vor wenigen Jahren war die Stadt Bilbao kaum über die s...

Central and Eastern European countries are now looking for ways to re-position their cities through city marketing investments, and the Lithuanian capital city of Vilnius is not an exception In this regard. After building new stadiums, shopping malls and multifunctional urban complexes, as well as being nominated European Capital of Culture 2009, V...

The development of evaluation systems is the integrated development of skills, resources and infrastructures and the shift towards an evaluation culture in an organization. However, before one can take guided action towards the development of an evaluation system, one needs to know more about the actual evaluation capacities. This article presents...

The article analyzes the effects of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (GMB), adopting a new research perspective and trying to pursue the links between the museum and Bilbao's art scene. Until now, the impact of the museum has been analyzed from two different perspectives. The first focused on the urban development and regeneration aspects and the succe...

The traditional mission of a museum is essentially cultural. However, it is not like this for all museums. There are a minority, although universally famous museums, like the Tate Liverpool, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Tate Modern London, or the new forthcoming Louvre-Lens (France), Pompidou-Metz (France), Guggenheim-Hermitage (Lithuania) and...

Bilbao has gained fame with the Guggenheim Museum, even in the Academic world. Google Scholar yields 2610 outcomes for “Bilbao Guggenheim” and the number of articles published in ISI-WoK listed-journals is 93 up until today. Surprisingly, however, almost 80% of these articles have been published by foreign authors, whereas many prestigious local au...

Information systems are the backbone of the monitoring and evaluationsystems that critically support the process of local development. Setting up an information system starts with establishing links with the strategy design and delivery. Key partners to strategy must be involved as well as other relevant stakeholders.

El artículo muestra una experiencia de cooperación internacional en la Provincia Velasco, oriente tropical de Bolivia, donde la autora, enviada por el Servicio Alemán de Cooperación Social-Técnica (DED), ayuda a elaborar un Plan Estratégico de Desarrollo Económico Local. El DED apoya directamente a organizaciones e instituciones a nivel local a tra...

En los últimos años, la evaluación ha sido integrada cada vez más en los procesos de diseño y análisis de las políticas públicas. Sin embargo, se notan diferencias importantes entre los países europeos en cuanto al grado de introducción de actividades y de sistemas de evaluación en el sector público. Factores como la tradición administrativa, el si...

The paper presents the changing role of evaluation for public policies and the increasing importance of comprehensive evaluation systems for more effective and learning public institutions. In this context, evaluation systems are becoming an essential element of governance and democratic processes. Within the framework of the current EU Structural...

Science, technology and innovation policies are experiencing numerous developments and changes in their orientation and design, which demand corresponding adaptation of policy evaluation methods and practices. Innovation systems are evolving towards more complex socially distributed structures of knowledge production activities, involving an increa...