a taste of rural identity

A Vital Rural Area- and a Smarter Chamber Stavanger Chamber of Commerce and Industry Jostein Soland

Background
Economic development
Negative exposure
Downswing of services

Challenges
Empowering SMEs
Branding the region
Optimizing services
Final goal:
A standard of social economical solutions (RPP)

Regional and rural?
Cities and hinterland

Urbanization and the potential of rural vitalization
Action - reaction
The core values
A regional chamber of commerce and industry

Two examples and a perspective
Norway, Rogaland and Finnøy in the VRA-project

A vision of smarter cities
Six core systems:
People
Business
Transport
Communication
Water
Energy

Smarter rural areas
The same kind of challenges
Living conditions as an attraction
Entrepreneurial spirit
Where are the motivators?
A knowledge driven society
Where value creation starts
Started and is supposed to start
People and communcation

Values
UN’s index on living conditions
GNP surplus

Action and reaction
Back to nature - a la Jean-Jaques Rousseau?

Business and culture
Setting up a smart regional chamber of commerce and
industry

The new urban district in Western Norway (coast road E39-160 km)
Stavanger-Haugesund-Bergen
Haugesund 2.980 Stavanger 1.300 Bergen Oslo

Empowering SMEs means empowering people

Video from the galla dinner in Hylen Hydro Power plant

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