Transcript Regional Foresight Studies

Guifré Esquerrà
MATEO Project Manager
CIDEM – Government of Catalonia
Brussels, March 7th 2007
What is MATEO?
A Regional Framework Operation (RFO) in Interreg IIIC
programme
– The Interreg IIIC Programme promotes cross-border, transnational and
interregional cooperation
– The overall objective is to improve the effectiveness of policies and
instruments for regional development through large-scale information
exchange and sharing of experience
– Interreg is financed by ERDF, as part of the Structural Funds, and co-financed
by national project partners and participants
– An RFO is a self-supporting mini-programme aimed at executing subprojects involving entities from the participating regions
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What is the goal of MATEO?
To stimulate regional innovation by:
• developing new knowledge-intensive industrial activities
• stimulating the knowledge-intensiveness of existing ones.
How to achieve it?
• through close cooperation between entities from four European
regions:
• Catalonia (Spain; represented by CIDEM)
• Noord-Brabant (the Netherlands; represented by the Province of
North Brabant, N.V. BOM and Syntens)
• Lombardy (Italy; represented by Regione Lombardia and
supported by CESTEC)
• South-West Bohemia (Czech Republic; represented by RERA)
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MATEO’s thematic area’s
Regions
Catalonia
Lombardia
Noord-Brabant
South-West Bohemia
In this framework MATEO executes:
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Regional Foresight Studies
Diagnosis visits
Matching using experts
Subprojects
Sectors
Biotech
Advanced materials
Mechatronics
Process & production
technology
Technologies
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General phasing of MATEO activities
January 2005 - December 2005
• Subproject proposal preparation
• Regional Foresight Studies
• Profiling of organisations through diagnosis visits
January 2006 - June 2006
• Selection and negotiation of subproject proposals
May 2006 - September 2007
• Execution of subprojects
September 2007 - December 2007
• Evaluation of results
• Implemenation of results in regional innovation plans
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Key MATEO deliverables
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8 Regional Foresight Studies
240 diagnoses of individual organisations
Interregional database with organisation profiles
5 Brokerage sessions
100 interregional contacts
8-16 Subprojects (SP’s)
Participation in definition of Regional Innovation
Strategies
• Intensive interchange on methodologies / best practices
• 4 Conferences to disseminate success cases
• Creation and maintenance of Web Portal
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Subproject preparation - three lines of activity
- thematic experts
- ideas database
- pre-proposals
- proposals
- thematic experts
- existing regional data
- questionnaires
Regional Foresight
Studies
MATEO deliverables:
- 8 regional foresight studies
Matching
activities
MATEO deliverables:
-100 matches
-40 incubator <-> technostarter
-40 between technostarters
-20 technology transfer
- 8-16 subprojects
- targeted mailing
- diagnosis forms
- IRC database
Profiling through
diagnosis visits
MATEO deliverables:
- 240 diagnosis visits
Each line of activities follows its own schedule - one should not delay others
Each region should aim for maximum synthesis between lines
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