Transcript Challenges to innovation in CEEC

From coal mining
to mind mining –
towards a knowledge
driven economy in the
Silesia Voivodship
Luk Palmen
Project manager
Knowledge, Innovation, Growth
 Globalisation and regionalisation
 Regional Innovation Systems
 Clusters and networks
 Innovation culture
Creating a knowledge driven economy:
 Securing access to “global resources” of knowledge, finance
and distribution networks
 By embedding SMEs in regional innovation systems that are
able to generate considerable new „added value” for regional
economies in a European and global context
Silesia Voivodship
Main characteristics of the Silesia Voivodeship
Description
Silesia
Poland
Area (km2 )
12,331
312,685
Population 31.XII.2002 r.
4.7 mln
38.2
mln
Population density (people/ km²)
384
122
Urban Development rate (%)
79.0
61.7
Demography: amount of people
 in preproduction age
 in production age
 in post production age
as a percentage of the total population
21.0
64.2
14.8
22.7
62.2
15.1
Main characteristics of the Silesia Voivodeship
Description
Silesia
Poland
GDP per capita (PLN)*
21,206.
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19,430.
0
Amount of people employed **
1.5 mln
12.5
mln
Structure of working population (%)
 agriculture, fishery
 industry and construction
 market services
 non-market services
4.8
38.7
39.0
17.5
17.3
28.5
33.5
20.7
Employment rate
41.9
43.7
Employment in the private sector (%)
63.3
71.3
Employment in SMEs (%)**
50.7
67.1
Unemployment rate (registered) (%)
16.5
18.0
*/ data for 2001
**/ situation on 31.XII.2002
Main characteristics of the Silesia Voivodeship
Description
Amount of economic units on 1.000 inhabitants (units)
Silesia
Poland
88.3
90.7
Amount of companies with foreign capital
on 10.000 inhabitants (unit)
8.2
12.3
Amount of SMEs on 10.000 inhabitants (unit)**
853
872
18,190
1,704
13,374
1,750
Amount of units in R&D sector
97
838
Employment in R&D sector on 1,000 people employed
3,7
4,5
73
0,39
120
0,65
356
129
2313
834
Production sold on 1 inhabitant in PLN
 przemysłu
 budowlano-montażowa
Expenditure on R&D:
 per 1 inhabitant (PLN),
 as relation GERD/GDP (%)*
IPR, amount of:
 New patent applications
 Patents registered and qualified
*/ data for 2001
**/ situation on 31.XII.2002
Main characteristics of the Silesia Voivodeship
SME innovativeness in the Silesia Voivodeship
Very innovative
companies
Modern, open for
innovation and active
Innovative solutions
are new on the
domestic and
international market
Supra-local nature of
sales structure
(domestic and foreign
markets dominate)
High dynamics of
changes in
employment (rise)
Approx. 10% SME
Medium innovative
companies
They have limited and
less stable contacts
with a small group of
partners
Lack of a determined
development strategy
Innovation is new
only for the company
itself, on the local and
domestic market
Medium dynamics of
changes in
employment (rise and
fall)
Approx. 60% SME
Low innovative
companies
Focus on surviving
Low interest in
innovation
Innovative solutions
are new only to the
company itself
Local nature of sales
structure (local sale
markets dominate)
Stagnation in
employment
Approx. 30% SME
Main characteristics of the Silesia Voivodeship
Great share of SMEs in 10 sectors of industrial processing:
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Production of chemicals, chemical articles, and synthetics,
Production of machines and equipment
Production of machines and electric apparatus
Production of mechanic vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers
Production of gum and plastic articles
Production of non-metal goods
Production of metal finished goods
Production of food and beverages
Textile industry
Production of cast and steel and iron alloys
Main characteristics of the Silesia Voivodeship
Technologies of industrial automation and material engineering
developed by the regional R&D sector are successfully integrated
in traditional industry.
3 Centres for Advanced Technologies and several centres of
excellence are currently developing integrated research teams
with strong links to industry in the fields of
 Biotechnology including bioengineering and health technologies.
 Technologies for energy sector including technologies of energy
production from renewable sources, combustion and thermal
recycling of waste as well as energy saving.
 Technology for environment protection including biogeochemical
engineering and waste management.
 Information and telecommunication technology.
 Production and processing of materials including advanced materials.
Main challenges in the Silesia Voivodeship
Strengths
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High GDP per capita in comparison
to the rest of Poland
Large regional consumer market
Large amount of foreign
investments allocated in the region
Diversified economy
Large amount of supplier companies
in Europe’s main industrial sectors
Growing importance of service
sector in creating added value in
regional economy
Large amount of R&D institutes and
human resources in the R&D sector
Large amount of business support
organisations
Technically high qualified workforce
on the labour market
Dense technical infrastructure
(transport, telecommunication, etc)
Weaknesses
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Low level of yearly GDP growth
High amount of micro-companies
generating only a small amount of
added value in regional economy
Most of small companies work on
the local markets and are not
prepared for international business
activities
Large amount of small companies
that are dependent on large
companies being restructured
Low level of export activities in
SMEs
Low percentage of R&D
investments in relation to regional
GDP
Negative image of the region
abroad
Regional Innovation Strategy of the
Silesia Voivodeship 2003-2013
 Mission:
Imagination creates Reality
 Vision:
Regional Innovation Strategy will support development of a
constructive climate for innovation in the Silesia
Voivodeship in a way that creativity and synergy through
co-operation in the process of elaborating, improving and
implementing innovative solutions will contribute to a raise
of the region’s innovative level strengthening the
competitiveness of the region’s economy in comparison
to other regions in the European Union
Regional Innovation Strategy of the
Silesia Voivodeship 2003-2013
Strategic fields and aims
 Increasing the percentage of innovative SMEs:
– Improving the business climate
– Supporting excellence in SMEs
 Accelerating and improving the use of the R&D
potential:
– Supporting excellence in the R&D sector
– Providing into the R&D sector those technologies that are
necessary to guarantee competitiveness of regional economy
 Developing a regional innovation system based on
trust, creativity and excellence:
– Developing partnerships for innovation
– Supporting development of new innovative products and
companies
Initiatives - Information
Situation:
 Shorter product and technology life cycles
 Information is key for decisions
Challenge:
 Regional economic intelligence systems
 Improved access to information tailored to needs of specific SME
groups and even on individual level
Key-initiative:
 Regional Information System - Consortium of business support
and R&D institutions
 INNOBSERVATOR SILESIA
Initiatives - Financing innovation
Situation:
 On average innovation activities for 70% financed with own
resources
 SMEs face difficulties in financing innovation related activities:
purchase of new machines (production lines), certification,
specialised services, use of specialised equipment and machines
of R&D institutions
Challenge:
 Measures under Structural Funds – absorption capacity in
SMEs…
Key-initiative:
 Support in preparing project proposals under Structural Funds
 Regional and local loan funds
 Seed Capital and Start-up Fund
 Business Angels Network
Initiatives - Advice and training
Situation:
 Lack of integrated quality training and advisory offer in
the field of strategic management and knowledge management
 Lack of co-ordinated offer in the field of certified systems of
quality, environment, labour safety management; certificates
of conformity for goods, materials, machines, control and
measurement apparatus
Challenge:
 Tailored advice and training offers
of business support institutions to SME needs
 Monitor SME needs
Key-initiative:
 Silesia Consortium of Business Support Organisations
 Regional investment program in IT – training online
Initiatives - Industrial design
Situation:
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Ever-changing customer demands, customised products, identity,
culture, experience
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Industrial design and product developments are indispensable
components for developing innovative products and services by
SMEs that try to specialise
Challenge:
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Regional networks focussing on integrated offers in the field
of industrial design and product development
Key-initiative:
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Silesia Design Network
Initiatives - Clusters and networks
Situation:
 Low social capital in CEEC prevents from enjoying full benefits
of existing sectoral growth potentials
 First initiatives of clusters, but still bilateral contacts remain
most important way of communication
Challenge:
 Clusters and networks to promote common activity in: research,
industrial design and product development, market research and
human resources development
 Creation of sub-contractors networks, FDI
 Technology clusters as part of restructuring R&D sector
Key-initiative:
 Pilot initiative on cluster development programme
 Network for Technology Commercialisation
Initiatives - R&D sector
Situation:
 R&D activities went through diversification process since 1990,
however still lack of marketing attitude in R&D institutions
 Lack of integrated research and complex services
 Technology life cycle ever shorter, increased risk of technology
success
Challenge:
 Integrated R&D centres focussing
on strategic economic issues gathering
scientists and companies around specific
research subjects in clusters
 International networking
Key-initiative:
 3 Centres of Advanced Technologies
 Centres of Excellence
 Technology Platforms
CAT: creating learning networks
Europejskie platformy technologiczne
w s p ó ł p r a c a
Jed n o stki n au ko w e
Centrum Transferu
Technologii
Centrum Szkolenia
MŚP
Przedsiębiorstwa
Centra Innowacji
Technologicznej
Stowarzyszenia branżowe
Inkubatory
przedsiębiorczości
w s p ó ł p r a c a
Jednostki
wspomagające
finansowanie
Parki technologiczne
i przemysłowe
Jednostki
samorządowe
Międzynarodowe sieci transferu technologicznego
Platformy Technologiczne z innymi CZT i jednostkami naukowymi
Initiatives - Intellectual Property Rights
Situation:
 Positive changes in legal framework, but still long procedures
 Many entrepreneurs and inventors resign from applying for
trademark protection, patterns or inventions because of high
costs connected to procedures
 IPR is seen as a cost not as an investment
Challenge:
 Streamline promotion, information and advisory activities in the
area of intellectual property rights
 Patent Funds to speed up commercialisation
of state-of-the-art technologies
Key-initiative:
 Developing a new model for IPR-management
 Technologies as a value creator – Patent Fund
Initiatives - Technology transfer
Situation:
 Technology transfer through co-operation among companies
 Technology transfer through mediation between economic and
scientific environment (technology push and technology pull)
 Technology transfer through exchange of personnel between
R&D institutions and companies
Challenge:
 Networks of centres of innovation
support and technology transfer
 Technology parks to facilitate
specialised technology transfer to high-tech SMEs
Key-initiative:
 IRC – KSI – Regional TT network
 Network for Effective Technology Commercialisation
Initiatives - Innovative start-ups
Situation:
 Establishing innovative start-ups based on research outcomes of
R&D sector is still not common in CEEC
 “Academic grey market”
 Lack of financial instruments (Seedcorn, Seed, start-up, early
growth)
 Technologies often not registered and misperception between
technological value from the part of the inventor and actual
market value
Challenge:
 Integrated regional service offer for innovative start-ups
 Innovation culture in education and R&D institutions
Key-initiative:
 Network for Technology Commercialisation
 Entrepreneurship promotion
in institutions of higher education
Seed Capital, Patent
Fund, Business Angels
Incubators and
Technology Parks
Regional government
Local government
Students, scientists,
undergraduates,
employees
Technology based
Start-ups
Special Economic
Zone
Industrial sites
Network for Effective
Technology
Commercialisation
Technology clusters
Large companies
Centres of Advanced
Technologies
Centres of Excellence
Technology Platforms
Regional Technology
Transfer Network
Micro and SMEs
Universities and R&D
Institutes
Innovative Business
Clusters
Regional Consortium
of Business Support
Organisations
Entrepreneurship
Promotion
Programme at
Universities
Regional and Local
Loan Funds
Silesia Design
Network
Conclusions
 Regional Innovation Strategy
= consensus
 Silesia Declaration on Developing
a Creative Innovative Region
= culture
 Regional Innovation System
= value creation
 Knowledge Driven economy
= competitiveness
 Structural Funds 2004 – 2006
= creating
 Structural Funds 2007 – 2013
= implementing
 Networking people
= Giving innovation a face
Enabling people to experience success
Thank you for
your attention
Luk Palmen