Transcript Regions for Economic Change : fostering competitiveness through

Regions for Economic Change :
fostering competitiveness through innovative
technologies, products and healthy
communities
PAULO GOMES
Brussels, 7-8 March 2007
Regions for Economic Change : fostering competitiveness through
innovative technologies, products and healthy communities
Workshop 1 A – fostering regional governance and public private
partnership
• Territorial Cooperation Objective – a new
strategic “status”
“European renewal cannot come only through a top-down approach. If innovation is to become the
true driver for growth and jobs we must engage and exploit the local and regional potential of
Knowdlege and cooperation. Only by taking into account the potential of Europe’s 268
regions, its cities, its rural and metropolitan areas, we will be able to make the Union more
competitive and to generate growth and sustainable jobs.
In the period 2007-2013, territorial cooperation has reached the status of “Objective” in
contrast to its role as a “Community Initiative” for the past 15 years. This is an important
political signal, placing cooperation on the same level as the Convergence and
Competitiveness Objectives.”
Danuta Hubner
Conference of German Ministers responsible for spatial planning
February, 2007
Regions for Economic Change : fostering competitiveness through
innovative technologies, products and healthy communities
Workshop 1 A – fostering regional governance and public private
partnership
• Strategic Guidelines of Cohesion – to align
cohesion policy with the Lisbon agenda for
growth and jobs
Making Europe a more attractive place to invest
and work
Improve Knowdlege and innovation for growth
More and better jobs
The National economies in The Enlarged Europe
(GDP per capita, UE-15 = 100, CSF III – 2000-2006)
The National Economies in the Enlarged Europe (CSF III 2000-2006)
Ireland
125
UK
Germany
Italy
GDP p/capita in PPC
100
Denmark
Ostrich
Holland
Sweden
Belgian
France
Finland
Spain
Cyprus
75
Slovenia
Malta
Greece
Portugal
Check Republic
Hungry
Slovene
Leetonia
Lithuania
Poland
Estonia
50
25
0
25
50
75
100
125
GDP p/capita in € (UE15=100)
[the economical country dimension (PIB, €) is represented by the “bubble” dimension
150
The Regions in the Enlarged Europe
(The National “mix” of the Regional Development Levels)
100%
75%
50%
25%
0%
DK
LU
IE
PIBpc > UE15
NL
IT
AT
FI
UK
PIBpc > UE25 e < UE15
BE
ES
DE
FR
PT
SE
PIBpc > 75% UE 15 e < UE25
CZ
SK
EL
CY
HU
SI
EE
PIBpc >75% UE25 e < 75% UE15
LV
LT
MT
PL
PIBpc < 75% UE25
Regions for Economic Change : fostering competitiveness through
innovative technologies, products and healthy communities
Workshop 1 A – fostering regional governance and public private
partnership
• The 2006 Innovation Index
Regions for Economic Change : fostering competitiveness through
innovative technologies, products and healthy communities
Workshop 1 A – fostering regional governance and public private
partnership
• SII and Trends
Regions for Economic Change : fostering competitiveness through
innovative technologies, products and healthy communities
Workshop 1 A – fostering regional governance and public private
partnership
• Regional Development Performance (2002-2004)
Human Resources in Science and Technology-Core (% of pop.)
Participation in Life-long learning per 100 pop. Aged 25-64
Public R&D expenditures (% GDP)
Business R&D expenditures (% GDP)
Employment in medium-high and high-tech manufacturing (% of total
workforce)
Employment in high-tech services (% of total workforce)
EPO patents per million population
Four key factors for understanding regional
Innovation potential
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Public knowledge
Urban services
Private Tecnology
Learning families
 Almost half of difference in GDP per capita in 215 EU
27 regions is explained by the four factors!
 Also explain variance in unemployment
Strategic groups of innovative regions
F1
F2
F4
F3
1) Global consolidation
2) Sustain competitive advantage
3) Boosting entrepreneurial knowledge
4) Enterning knowledge economy
Regional Innovation Systems
(RIS)
o A RIS is constituted by two sub-systems and the
systemic interaction between them (and with non-local
actors and agencies).
o The knowledge generation and diffusing sub-system
(universities, technical colleges, R&D institutes,
technology transfer agencies, business associations
and finances institutions).
o The knowledge exploitation sub-system (firms in
regional clusters as well as their support industries
(customers and suppliers).
What is a RIS – broad definiton:
o A system of organisations and institutions supporting
learning and organisational innovation, and their
interactions with local firms (learning regions).
o Adaptive learning: competence building – (learning)
work organisation.
o Developmental learning: interactive learning (userproducer relationships) – inter-firm network.
o A market/demand/user driven system generating
incremental innovations
Regional knowledge infrastructure
o (Regional) universities as producers of highly skilled
people (human capital/talents).
o Supplying highly skilled workforce, and thus providind
absorptive capacity to local firms.
o Actors in the knowledge generation subsystem of RIS
(industry-university collaboration)
o Providing access for tapping into their knowledge
reservoir for local firms.
o Acting as tecnhology transfer agencies for non-local
knowledge.
Regional Policy Challenges
o The dilemma of regional innovation: from imitation to
innovative adaptation.
o Industrial renewal takes place in-between and beyond
existing sectors – need for transcending traditional
sector policies (platform policy).
o Innovation through combining existing knowledge,
technologies and competencies with new generic
technologies (IT, biotech (green and white).
o How to shape conditions for cross-fertilization?
Regions for Economic Change : fostering competitiveness through
innovative technologies, products and healthy communities
Workshop 1 A – fostering regional governance and public private
partnership
• Major Keys
Governance
Clearer split of responsibilities amongst various
political and administrative levels
Exploiting EU level opportunities
Focus on an innovation friendly environment
Focus on applied research and product
development
Focus on Poles & Clusters
Regions for Economic Change : fostering competitiveness through
innovative technologies, products and healthy communities
Workshop 1 A – fostering regional governance and public private
partnership
• Major Keys
Partnerships
Focus on “downstream” collaborative research
developed with view to the market - technology
transfer most effective through personal mobility
schemes.
PPPartnerships
Still quite unsuccessful but very important
Must emerge from a demand culture