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Parallel Worlds or Collaborative Action?

Parallel Worlds or Collaborative Action?. Realising regional capacity for research and innovation through the EU’s Structural Funds and Framework Programmes. Why the interest?. New emphasis on role of innovation, knowledge economy and research in economic development – a dominant discourse

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Parallel Worlds or Collaborative Action?

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  1. Parallel Worlds or Collaborative Action? Realising regional capacity for research and innovation through the EU’s Structural Funds and Framework Programmes

  2. Why the interest? • New emphasis on role of innovation, knowledge economy and research in economic development – a dominant discourse • New policy regime with challenges and opportunities • New Structural Fund programmes • New Framework Programme • Budgetary debates balancing emphasis on ‘traditional’ concerns (agriculture, regional aid) and the ‘Lisbon Agenda’ of research and innovation

  3. An EU emphasis on realising synergies “Synergy between cohesion policy, the FP7 and the CIP is vital so that research and cohesion policies reinforce each other at the regional level” Community Strategic Guidelines + numerous reports (from 2006 ) CREST, ITRE, EURABS, DG Regio

  4. Values are notable(and rising) 1998-2006

  5. Actions (seemingly) complementary

  6. Who benefits? Structural Funds

  7. Who Benefits? 5th and 6th Framework Programmes (% participants) FP and SF taken together: - Higher Education Sector - Regional economic authorities (RDAs or DAs)

  8. Strong concentration effects Structural Funds (2000-06) Framework Programmes Similar picture in Yorkshire and Humber

  9. But what of Synergies? • Largely absent • Occasional examples of grassroots linkages "Come on, get real!" "was not on anybody's agenda… not on the radar at all"

  10. Challenges for stronger integration • Individual experience • Institutional agendas and priorities • Lack of any strategic approach • ‘Invisibility’ of Framework Programmes • Perceptions of what each instrument is ‘for’ • Focus on simple notions of absorptive capacity and local knowledge spillovers • Boundary effects • Relational aspects – silos of activity

  11. Conclusions • Parallel worlds of practice • Geographic proximity not sufficient to promote policy integration • Words are also not enough – narratives are not yet shared

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