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CLUSTERS FOR GROWTH, PROSPERITY AND COMPETITIVENESS – A CHALLENGE FOR ROMANIAN INDUSTRIAL POLICY

CLUSTERS FOR GROWTH, PROSPERITY AND COMPETITIVENESS – A CHALLENGE FOR ROMANIAN INDUSTRIAL POLICY. PANEL I Clusters as a driving engine for competitiveness & prosperity in the region 10 – 11 April 2014, Sofia. "Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare"

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CLUSTERS FOR GROWTH, PROSPERITY AND COMPETITIVENESS – A CHALLENGE FOR ROMANIAN INDUSTRIAL POLICY

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  1. CLUSTERS FOR GROWTH, PROSPERITY AND COMPETITIVENESS – A CHALLENGE FOR ROMANIAN INDUSTRIAL POLICY PANEL I Clusters as a driving engine for competitiveness & prosperity in the region 10 – 11 April 2014, Sofia

  2. "Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare" Japanese proverb Romania documents for the next programming period 2014-2020 • National Competitiveness Strategy • Analysis and evidence base of the R&D&I market in Romania made by Jaspers Ireland and ARUP Romania • Clusters and smart specialization - World Bank - West Region • National Reform Program • National R&D&I Strategy • Industrial Policy Document (Romania is now in a process of elaborating a new industrial policy document with elements of reindustrialization based on competitiveness and innovation) • Romanian Cluster Mapping • Cluster Guide • Contribution to the revision of EU State Aid Rules for Innovation • In order to promote and to support innovation, clusters are a critical element of national and regional policy to foster the competitiveness.

  3. Analysis and Evidence Base of the R&D&I Market in Romania (Jaspers – Recommendations Report) The ARUP Ireland assignment is within the context of establishing a Smart Specialization Strategy (RIS3), which is a pre-condition for accessing funding under the thematic priority for research and development within the 2014 to 2020 European Structural Funds. This strategy development will be led by the MoE who currently have responsibility for the Research and Development thematic priority of the structural funds The emerging clusters will be financed in the next programming period by the Operational Regional Program and innovative clusters and poles of competitiveness (networks of clusters) by the Operational program for Increasing the Economic Competitiveness. The ARUP assignment has analyzed the evidence base of Romanian research and development expertise (supply side) and the competitiveness of the Romanian economy (demand side), to understand the linkage and correlation between research and development with business performance within the innovation system. Guidance is structured around a 6 practical steps: • Analysing the innovation potential; • Setting out the RIS3 process and governance; • Developing a shared vision; • Identifying the priorities; • Defining an action plan with a coherent policy mix; • Monitoring and evaluating

  4. World Bank engagement in the RIS 3 Agenda in Romania–”Competitiveness Enhancement and Smart Specialization Policies in the Romania West Region” Two complementary activities: • Competitiveness assessment of services and goods producers in the West Region • Sector smart specialization case studies • Main objective: identification of policy measures, interventions and smart specialization niches that can help nurture the region’s growth potential

  5. ROMANIAN CLUSTER POLICY • Cluster policies can make a significant contribution to the definition of Smart Specialization Strategy having an innovation driven development strategy in place that focuses on each region’s strength and competitive advantage. • It’s about specializing in a smart way: i.e. based on evidence and strategic intelligence about a region’s assets and the capability to learn what specializations can be developed in relation to those of other regions. • For example, in our West region we develop the fields of automotive, ICT, renewable energies and creative industries and in the North East the fields of textiles, agro-food, tourism. They have already accessed structural funds in order to develop their activities, even by developing cross border clusters. At national level we identified the potential of innovation of each region based on various factors (level of technologies used, skills and competences, clusters existed etc.) and the regions use these strategic instruments in a smart way into their development. Two Romanian regions (West and North East are members of the European RIS Platform.

  6. “Sometimes, at least at the starting point of building innovation strategy, we have to think also at financing.” Sectoral Operation Program „ Increase of economic competitiveness” Priority Axis 1: An innovative and eco-efficient productionKey Area of Intervention 3: Sustainable development of entrepreneurship Development of business support structures of national and international scale (poles of competitiveness) – 60 million euros – 16 applicants Support of attracting SMEs into supply chains and clusters- 20 million euros – 23 applicants Both calls are open.

  7. Project SEENECO South East Europe Network of Excellence for Cluster Organizations Partners: • Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism from Bulgaria • Chamber of Commerce&Industry of Croatia • Ministry of Economy, www.minind.ro, Romania • Ministry of Economy & Regional Development from Serbia • National Agency for Regional Development from Serbia Objectives: -The development of an European portfolio of cluster organisations that will be further used as an important instrument towards developing world class clusters in Europe -Provide clusters with information on the possibilities of developing of a benchmarking approach in their programs for improving their performance, gaining knowledge and learning. Benchmarking is a tool that can be easily integrated in the strategic management of the cluster. -The implementation of a procedure of comparing the structure, processes, level of development, methods and services provided between clusters. - Training of cluster management.

  8. Project ClusterPoliSEE Smarter Cluster Policies for South East Europe Partner countries: Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Albania, Croatia, Serbia, Republic of Moldova. Objectives: • To better prioritise Member State’s cluster policies towards the needs of world-class clusters in the EU • To better provide Member States and regions with neutral and reliable information about clusters • More and better practical cooperation at policy level between Member States • To better integrate innovative SMEs into clusters and the Lead Market Initiative • To rise the quality of cluster management all over Europe.

  9. The Danube Strategy: The Danube Region Strategy addresses a wide range of issues; these are divided among 4 pillars and 11 priority areas. Each priority area is managed by a Priority Area Coordinator. • Priority Area 1A — To improve mobility and intermodality: inland waterways is coordinated by Austria and Romania. • Priority Area 1B - To improve mobility and intermodality - rail, road and air is coordinated by Slovenia and Serbia. • Priority Area 2 - To encourage more sustainable energy is coordinated by Hungary and the Czech Republic. • Priority Area 03 - To promote culture and tourism, people to people contacts is coordinated by Bulgaria and Romania.

  10. Priority Area 4 - To restore and maintain the quality of waters is coordinated by Hungary and Slovakia. • Priority Area 05 -To manage environmental risks is coordinated by Hungary (Ministry of Rural Development) and Romania (Ministry of Environment and Forests). • Priority Area 06 - To preserve biodiversity, landscapes and the quality of air and soils is coordinated by the Land Bavaria (Germany) and Croatia. • Priority Area 07 - To develop the Knowledge Society (research, education and ICT) is coordinated by Slovakia and Serbia. • Priority Area 08 -To support the competitiveness of enterprises including cluster development is coordinated by the Land Baden-Württemberg (Germany) and Croatia. • Priority Area 09 - To invest in people and skills is coordinated by Austria and Moldova. • Priority Area 10 - To step up institutional capacity and cooperation is coordinated by the City of Vienna (Austria) and Slovenia • Priority Area 11 - To work together to tackle security and organised crime is coordinated by Germany and Bulgaria. • All the priority areas suppose the involvement of a wide network of key players and stakeholders from the 14 countries of the Danube Region.

  11. We invite you to cooperate with ICT Clusters in Romania!

  12. Proposals of further cooperation between Bulgaria and Romaniawithin Horizon2020, COSME, INTERREG We invite you to reflect on some issues that could be future projects for clusters development in South-East, Balkan and Black Sea Region • Integrating social innovation in cluster initiatives • Preparatory exercise for train-the –trainers for cluster managers • Elaboration of a System for Accreditation and Excellence Benchmarking for the benchmarking/evaluation of cluster initiatives

  13. Thank you for your kind attention! Gabriela Pirvu (gabriela_parvu@minind.ro) Mariana Voicu (mariana_voicu@minind.ro) Christina Leucuta (christiana_leucuta@yahoo.com) Directorate of Industrial Policy & Competitiveness Ministry of Economy, Romania

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