Transcript INTERREG IVC CAPITALISATION Regional innovation policies and

INTERREG IVC CAPITALISATION
Regional innovation policies and different approaches
Meeting of 20 May 2010
Christian Saublens
Executive Manager EURADA
Aim
To test a specific methodology in order to maximize the
programme’s impact and in particular to:
• create the conditions of an optimal exploitation of the
knowledge resulting from the projects,
• help the programme strengthen its own internal coherence,
with the clustering of projects dealing with similar issues,
• provide in return relevant thematic information to the running
projects and therefore contribute to increasing the quality of
their exchange of experience and knowledge,
• make the programme’s achievements more visible and to be
able to draw some policy recommendations at the European
level based on the projects’ results.
Methodology
• Analyse the 21 projects' work plans in order to issue a
project fact sheet ,
• Meet with five project leaders,
• Discuss common challenges and solutions at project and
programme levels,
• Draft policy recommendations for 3 issues: regional
innovation strategies, international exchange of
experience and transfer of know-how gained / created
thanks to Interreg funding,
• Publicize a final report.
Achievements
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21 fact sheets
5 project visits
Fact sheet analysis
2 thematic workshops
Ideas for further common activities
Ways of clustering projects
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At project level
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At programme level
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The core topic of the project
Their sub-objectives
The way they address critical assets to be able to implement regional innovation strategy
The contribution of the project to strengthen the 10 main ingredients of a regional innovation
strategy
The place of the project in the regional innovation system/value chain
Implicit capitalisation
The composition of the partnership
The nature/type of the project
The foreseen exit strategy
Synergies between projects if partners are involved in more than one
Synergies between projects’ outcomes funded by different programmes, i.e. RoK or Europe Innova.
At good practice level
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Impacting the framework conditions
Enhancing enterprise support
Response to critical issues
More than half of the projects are dealing with:
• Regional innovation instruments for SMEs
• Regional eco-innovation system
• Involvement of intermediary organisations
• Reviewing the regional action plan.
Projects target the improvement of:
• the regional strategic capital
• institutional and administrative capital
• social capital.
Response to critical issues
To achieve this, the projects concentrate on:
• governance and integrated approach
• university/enterprise cooperation
• commercialisation of new ideas
• start-up creation
• market intelligence
• new forms of public intervention.
However, the projects do not touch sufficiently on:
• access to finance
• talent and skills attraction
• internationalisation
• IPR protection.
Place of the project in the
Regional Innovation System
Place of the project in the
Regional Innovation System
Knowledge
production
INNOPOLIS
IPP
Innovation
leveraging
process
DISTRICT+
ECREIN+
INOLINK
I4W
Know-Man
MKW
MINI-EUROPE
NANO4M
Commercialisation
process
Full innovation
process
POOLING4CLUSTERS ChemClust
RAPIDE
CLIQ
ERIK ACTION
ERMIS
EURIS
FRESH
PERIA
PROSESC
SCINNOPOLI
Implicit capitalisation (1)
Projects based on previous collective work
INTERREG III
ERIK ACTION
I4W
MINI EUROPE
CHEMCLUST
PROSESC
FRESH
NANO4M
FP6
NANO4M
SCINNOPOLI
OTHER EU
PROGRAMMES
ECREIN+ (DG
Environment)
PERIA (IRE Network
Streering Group)
EU NETWORKS
CLIQ (Eurotowns
Network)
MKW (ERRIN Network)
Implicit capitalisation (2)
Multiproject / programme beneficiaries
• 24 organisations are involved in at least 2 Interreg IVC projects
• 5 Interreg IVC partners are also involved in projects funded by Regions of
Knowledge and by EUROPE INNOVA
• 24 Interreg IVC partners are involved in Regions of Knowledg projects
• 16 Interreg IVC partners are involved in EUROPE INNOVA projects
First conclusions
Capitalisation expectations
1. Policy level
• Involvement of Stakeholders
• Transition from current practices to the next generation
• How to adapt practices to regulation constraints and the
incentives to regional power/competence
• Complementarity between local assets owners
• Involvement of managing authorities
2. Methodology level
• Market intelligence
• Building user-driven innovation
Capitalisation expectations
3. Project management level
• Mini-programme implementation
• Reporting issues
• Working plan follow-up
4. Practice level
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Framework conditions
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Cooperate social responsability
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Methodology for innovation assessment
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Putting the quadruple helix in the centre for social innovation
Support for enterprises
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Placement of young graduates in SMEs
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Business Angel Networks
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Support to clusters
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New forms of incubation for start-ups
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Capitalisation exercise
• Good practice repository
• Thematic events
- Urbact: Open innovation
- Tillväxt Verket: Innovation environments
• Pool of experts
• Bilateral contacts
General remarks (1)
• Innovation is no longer perceived as a consequence of
technology development.
• Innovation also covers issues such as:
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creativity and design
business models
response to societal challenges
services
user driven innovation
NB: several projects seem to follow this path, but due to
limited best practice data availability this needs further
investigation
General remarks (2)
Most projects are looking at the framework conditions by better involving key
stakeholders, enhancing the regional innovation eco-system and reviewing
the instruments to support innovation by SMEs.
They are looking to strenghtening their strategic capital, as well as the
institutional and the adminstrative capital.
This leads to improvement in social and societal capital
BUT projects are less addressing specific issues related to access to finance,
IP protection, technology transfer and human capital.
And what about impact assessment?
General remarks (3)
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