Francesca Bodano, Luisa Ingaramo and Stefania Sabatino on "The Urban Areas Competitiveness Report (RCAU): an information system to support the JESSICA revolving funds in Italy"

1. The Urban Areas
Competitiveness Report
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(RCAU): an information system
to support the JESSICA
revolving funds in Italy
l i f d i I l
ing. Francesca Bodano
arch.
arch Luisa Ingaramo
arch. Stefania Sabatino
Cagliari
10thMay 2012
POLITECNICO
DI TORINO
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2. 2009-2011
Layout of the first “three years”
RESEARCH SUPPORTING
activity
2007 AND ORIENTING
LAUNCHED
AND
PROMOTED
JESSICA RESEARCH
COORDINATION
OPERATIVE RESEARCH TEAM FOR THE RCAU REPORT
INITIATIVE
2007-2013
Joint European Support Research institute focused
A company focused on local
for Sustainable Research centre specialized in Research centre for
development , mainly financed by on territorial systems for
investments in City
banking foundations demography & multi-ethnicity social-economic analyses
areas innovation
LOOKING FOR
THE JESSICA Italian Banking Foundation and
ROTATIVE Banks Associations
FUNDS + Other sponsors
OPPORTUNITY
RESEARCH FINANCING AND
SUPPORTING
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3. OBJECT
Th t k relies on th construction of a synthetic i d measuring and comparing 103
The task li the t ti f th ti index i d i
Italian provinces (NUT s-3 level), the basis of a multidisciplinary dataset made up of raw
indexes.
Example: The Real Estate Profitability Index for the residential market
Each urban area expresses a
peculiar residential market, due
MILAN
TURIN to the complex relationships
existing between its local
economy, i i
its inner hi
history, i
its
community…The information
system must catch those
competitive gaps on a common
scale.
MATERA
CAGLIARI
A relevant question deals with the comparability of urban areas revealing strong differences
for, i.e.: dimension, climate economy culture, geography
for i e : dimension climate, economy, culture geography….
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4. MAIN QUESTIONS
Reliability of the mathematical model
y
Usefulness of the information system
y
Bologna Bari
Urbino
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5. KEY POINTS
1. Territorial competitiveness
2. The calculation model
3. Main results emerging from three Reports (2009-2010-2011)
CONCLUSIONS
Florence
Oristano
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6. TERRITORIAL COMPETITIVENESS
How the RCAU project looks at the territorial competitiveness ?
Learning from literature..
“...a country is “...based on the “...technological ...”the competitiveness
competitive if it relation between changes can impact [...] comes true when a
succeeds to competitiveness on a country [...] global increasing welfare
enlarge its market and comparative more than is granted to the whole
business...” advantages...” expenditures...” society.”
A. Smith (1776) D. Ricardo (1817) K. J. Arrow (1962) M. E. Porter (1976)
( )
F. A. Von Hayek (1976)
From a merely ...the “sustainable
question of business… …trough a more relative way of thinking, towards a
development” definition.
definition in line with….
The RCAU approach to territorial competitiveness
An urban area can b considered competitive if it manages to f
b be d d f foster virtuous development chains b
d l h between l
local
l
resources (i.e.: capitals and ideas) in order to maintain and to boost the local welfare.
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According to this definition the RCAU Report tried to select the sectors or the dimensions addressing advantages
and risks to the Italian urban areas, in order to get local stakeholders (potential investors and policy makers) used to
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7. TERRITORIAL COMPETITIVENESS
Immaterial resources Material resources
PEOPLE PHYSICAL SPACE
Specific local
heritage
ENVIRONMENT
DEMOGRAPHY
INFRASTRUCTURE
CULTURE
&
SOCIETY
1
REAL
ESTATE
ECONOMY
2
MARKET
3
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8. THE CALCULATION MODEL
coordination activity
Research institute focused
A company focused on local development Research centre specialized in Research centre for
on territorial systems for
, mainly financed by banking foundations demography & multi-ethnicity social-economic analyses
innovation
Dataset t t
D t t structure
6 dimensions
Covering 103
provinces
77 raw
indicators 1
More than 20 national 2
and international
institutional sources
Istat, Miur,
Istat Mi r Banca d’Italia Agen ia del Territorio Ecosistema Urbano, ESPON, Corine Land Cover, Siae…
d’Italia, Agenzia Territorio, Urbano ESPON Co er Siae 3
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9. THE CALCULATION MODEL
Dataset standardization and weighting process
1. the a-dimensional dataset: 0.0001 - 1.0000
ranking gap If Ind is positive
If Ind is negative
2. the weighting coefficients calculation: inverse
g g
correlation among a-dimensional rankings
3. the sub-dimension ranking through the weighted
sum of indicators belonging to the same sub-
dimension:
1
2
3
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10. MAIN RESULTS
THE COMPETITIVENESS SYNTHETIC INDEX
The Geographical Information
2010 2011
Systems enriches the analysis
making easier any comparison and
comprehension
THE FUTURE RISK MAP FOR
POPOLATION AGEING (i.e)
Trieste
Nearly 50%
Genoa inhabitants are
over 65 years
old
Some stable trends
trends…
• Middle sized cities: greater dynamism
• Ageing phenomenon: future economic charge
• Early School leavers phenomenon: due to a cost-opportunity trade off
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• Southern Italy: vulnerable (low economic levels combined with low attractiveness
for young people as well immigrants) 2
• Some virtuous chains still remains especially where an excellent manufactory
industrial or service pole meets the innovation technology and scientific research.
•North Eastern Italy hi h f
N th E t It l high free ground consumption (b d planning activity)
d ti (bad l i ti it )
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11. CONCLUSIONS
Reliability of the mathematical model
The results needs to be enriched with some explicative comments...
Usefulness of the information system
y
The information delivered by the Report can be deepened on
demand for specific customers...
Feedback in the light of further specific research activity...
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12. Thank you for your kind attention!
For any further information please contact us by e-mail:
stefania.sabatino@polito.it
francesca.bodano@polito.it
francesca bodano@polito it
luisa.ingaramo@polito.it
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