Mesopartner Annual Reflection 2021-2022 Covid-19 has thrown us out of rhythm. While we usually produce our Annual Reflection yearly, we took a break during the last two years. Adjusting our working mode and focusing on the new conditions during the pandemic, we discontinued some of our usual practices. However, in early 2023 we decided to look back on our insights and experiments of the last two…
Annual Reflection 2021-2022
Quality Infrastructure for Sustainable Development in a Changing World
Here are the details of the QI event, a three-day training on various global quality infrastructure development topics, including trade, innovation, sustainability, and digitalisation:
Date: 1 - 3 October 2024 Where: Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Who should attend: The target audience for…
The system perspective on LED Mesopartner has regularly been asked to support the introduction of Local Economic Development (LED) or strengthen LED as an economic development approach in a country (see AR 2018, Article 3: How to introduce LED as an approach to economic change in a country).
05 The system perspective on LED Mesopartner has regularly been asked to support the introduction of…
Let’s reimagine place together In November 2021, Mesopartner and a group of friends organised an online dialogue series. We invited a diverse group to jointly reimagine what we mean by “place” and how we approach this concept.
06 Let’s reimagine place together Introduction In November 2021, Mesopartner and a group of friends organised an online dialogue series. We invited a diverse group to…
Implications of migration for territorial development Migration is essential to human development and has contributed towards altering societies and economies for thousands of years. Depending on various factors discussed in this article, migration can be a blessing or a curse for a country’s or a sub-national location’s development trajectory.
07 Implications of migration for territorial…
We are excited to launch our training event for territorial economic development change agents from 15 to 18 April 2024 in Mendoza, Argentina.
The course will be held in Spanish. The program consists of a four-day immersive training experience designed to strengthen experienced participants as change agents driving the transition to sustainable economic development in their…
How societies learn and build competencies Have you ever wondered why some companies, industries or even places appear to be more able to innovate and harness new knowledge, while others are lagging or stagnant?
Being innovative involves the ability to combine existing knowledge in new ways as well as to combine existing knowledge with newly gained knowledge.
03 How societies learn and build…
Fostering dynamic entrepreneurial innovation ecosystems In the natural sciences, an ecosystem is understood as a system of interconnected elements, formed by a community of organisms interacting with their environment. Ecosystems are often nested structures, and drawing a boundary around them is hard.
02 Fostering dynamic entrepreneurial innovation ecosystems In the natural sciences, an…
Gaining Systemic Insight when facing complexity In our 2019 Annual Reflections we described the Systemic Insight process logic, a template for a process of search and discovery that we developed in Mesopartner. Process logic is aimed at partners and clients who work under conditions of uncertainty where answers are not easy to find, and exploration is needed.
04 Gaining Systemic Insight when…
Building the technological intelligence of industries and supporting organisations Like the economies of many developing and middle-income countries, the South African economy has a fair share of innovators and globally competitive firms
in many different sectors. The challenge is that there are only a few innovative companies and many lagging companies in each sector.
01 Building the…
