Arenas Ekonomiska Råd

The escalation of the crisis in Europe poses the greatest threat to global prosperity today. To  find a way out of this vicious cycle one needs a comprehensive investment and growth  program. From a progressive perspective such a program needs to develop a stronger focus on the real economy, the modernization of structures, improved competitiveness, increase of  value added, substantially raising the level of sustainability and eventually the strengthening  of European integration.In the current debate, however, competitiveness is often interpreted  in a rather narrow economic understanding with an asymmetric focus on the level of taxation, the nature of labour or environmental legislation as well as qualitative assessments of access to finance, etc. Today, after the debt-fuelled growth model has failed spectacularly and was on top of that mistaken as a symbol of competitiveness, only marginal intellectual departures from the concept have taken place in major parts of the political discourse.Together with global experts and decision makers we aim to discuss a  sophisticated progression of competitiveness,  identify key drivers of  sustainable  competitiveness and industrial policies in various countries as well as within the European and global institutional settings.

» What are the progressive  concepts to increase innovation and develop more comprehensive concepts of competitiveness embedded into the European framework as well as demands from globalization?

» What is a progressive understanding of an industrial renewal against the background of concepts of ecological industrial policies?

» Which instruments and policies can be identified in order to strengthen our countries’ economy as a whole? Which macroeconomic framework is needed in order to support these instruments?

The organizing institutions are the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the Arena Group in Stockholm:

Håkan A. Bengtsson, Arenagruppen,

& Karl-Petter Thorwaldsson, LO Chairman.

Competitiveness – The Analytical Perspective 
[20 min input each]

Erik S. Reinert, Tallinn University of Technology and Gunnar 

Myrdal Prize Winner.

Jennifer Erickson, Director of Competitiveness and Economic

Growth at the Center for American Progress.

Daniel Buhr, expert for Policy Analysis and Political Economy,

University of Tübingen.

learnt from the case of Denmark?
Bengt- Åke Lundvall, Innovation expert at Aalborg University.

Charles Edquist, expert for innovation processes, innovation

systems and innovation policy at Lund University.

Moderator: N.N.

13:30 » Panel 2: Progressive Policies Required – The Political 

Perspective
[15 min input each]

(IPPR), London.

Moderator: Jesper Bengtsson, Journalist.

Gero Maaß, Director Nordic Office, Friedrich Ebert Foundation,

Stockholm.

15:45 » End of Conference

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