Integrated Cross-Sectorial Plan of Tirana-Durres Area

the role of the region as a hub of foreign
investments with links to global networks,
initially ensuring an appropriate environment
for ICT services and infrastructure.
Line ministries, governmental agencies and
municipalities of the metropolitan region
should create the conditions for maximizing
the networking of structures and actors in the
development of the service and knowledge
economy.
EP1.1- Territorial component
It is suggested to create territorial support
poles for the service economy in the urban
centres of Tirana and Durres, such as: the
Central Business Area; industrial park;
technological park; economic development
technological area. The development of these
poles and structures should be supported
by efficient infrastructural networks, closely
linked to the ICT platforms, as well as the
mobility and public transport.
EP1.2- Human component
Line ministries and municipalities in the
region should simultaneously promote the
development of continuous knowledge of
human capital and business entrepreneurs in
a number of priority sectors, by establishing
and developing certification structures and
platforms that enable measurable standards
recognized by the EU.
Developing skills and knowledge for
employment aims at promoting, attracting and
retaining the human capital with developed
skills to support the needs of the service
economy in the globally linked business
development model.
To develop this factor, it is recommended to:
• Expand the personal skills through
permanent training, teamwork training on
problem solving, trainings on specialized
services in support of the global client. Expand
the profile of knowledge and skills in social
and political sciences, including foreign
languages;
• Train and profile in exact sciences,
technology and innovation, train skills for
the development of creative industries, train
skills in ICT and maths, as well as create
skills in response to new areas of economic
development such as the “economy of
programs and programming”;
• Developing specialized employment.
Developing skills in the field of electronic
networks should respond to the need for
future generations of businesses based on the
“4th Industrial Revolution” in sectors such as:
transport, communication, logistics, trade,
supply network and global demand etc.
The municipalities of the region should support
a favourable environment for translating
knowledge and skills into innovation,
promoting the creation of virtual monitoring
and certification platforms, the knowledge
cluster and the know-how exchange network
globally.
EP2- Regional knowledge and
innovation network
Knowledge and skills are the key factors of
the region’s development. Although the nature
of knowledge dissemination in the region is
largely public, its gained externalities appear
to be more developed in regions where there is
a presence of higher education institutions.
The development of regional knowledge should
depend not only on the “top-down” institutional
approach, or on the informal development
dimension of innovation dissemination by
the SME-s themselves. Public institutions
should address the achievement of a proactive
cooperation and interaction of all regional
stakeholders.
Innovation development should be addressed
to R & D supported by public and private
institutions that promote interaction in vertical
and horizontal plans. The target approach
should be to distribute innovation as a product
of R & D, in order to strengthen the SMEs of
the region.
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