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1. CORINNA Benchmarking of cross-border innovation policy in the core Alpe Adria Region - INTERREG project CORINNA DAMJAN KAVAŠ,

2. Overview • Basic Information on CORINNA project. • Benchmarking of regional innovation policies: • Methodological issues. • Lessons learned. www.corinna-net.info

3. Overview Basic Information on CORINNA project www.corinna-net.info

4. CORINNA Partners Stuttgart Region Economic Development Corp.Stuttgart, D Hungarian Science and Technology Foundation Budapest, H Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) Vienna, A Carinthian Economic Promotion Fund (KWF) Klagenfurt, A West Hungarian Research Institute Györ, H Economy Service Burgenland (WIBAG) Eisenstadt, A Joanneum Research Graz, A Friuli Innovazione Udine, I Institute for Economic Research (IER)Ljubljana, SI www.corinna-net.info

5. Starting Point - A Diagnosis • Intensity of interregional/cross-bordercooperationof partner regions in technology & innovation lacks behind comparable European regions: • on administrative level, • on company level. www.corinna-net.info

6. Cooperation barriers • Huge differences in governmental structures(e.g. federal vs. centralistic), • different regulations, policies, support programmes, • different levels of economic development, • low knowledge about competencies of neighbour regions. www.corinna-net.info

7. Outputs & Results – Population www.corinna-net.info

8. Outputs & Results – GRP/hab. PPS www.corinna-net.info

9. Output & Results – Regional R&D Capacities www.corinna-net.info

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11. CORINNA Innovation Policy Benchmarking All countries and regions involved are looking to innovation and innovation policy as pivotal for tackling the structural challenges facing their economies, because innovation is key to competitiveness. www.corinna-net.info

12. Overview Benchmarking of regional innovation policies: • Methodological issues. • Lessons learned. www.corinna-net.info

13. CORINNA Innovation Policy Benchmarking Benchmarking is a powerful technique that provides practical learning through comparing measurements, policies or outcomes, across industries, sectors, policies, products or services. The meaning of benchmarking is constant learning, improving and pursuing performance. Through breaking the traditional way of thinking the method encourages the openness and improves originality and adopting 3-A policies: Adopt, Adapt, Advance. www.corinna-net.info

14. CORINNA Innovation Policy Benchmarking Motivations for policy benchmarking are: • To understand where improvements have to be made. • Understand factors involving performance of policies. • Learning from “good practices” or “not so good practices”. • Setting standard and targets for performance. • Taking part in the process is already helping to learn: “naming and shaming”. www.corinna-net.info

15. CORINNA Innovation Policy Benchmarking General socio-economic performance Innovation performance Innovation policy instruments Other factors Synergy between innovation policy instruments “Good” and “not so good” practice www.corinna-net.info

16. CORINNA Innovation Policy Benchmarking - Approach • Short comparison of socio-economic performance of the regions involved. • Detailed description of innovation performance: list of indicators. • Short description of R&D policy and detailed description of innovation policy instruments: regional level, national level, interregional level according to the template (standardization) • Assessment of synergy between innovation policy instruments (synergy matrix). • Comparing performance of the regions (socio-economic, innovation) and its innovation policy mix based on evaluation studies and expert opinion. • Identification of examples and description of “good” and “not so good” practice (instruments, policy mix) in innovation policy in each region, because policy success and failures often contain many valuable lessons for others regions. www.corinna-net.info

17. Detailed description of innovation performance: list of indicators • Indicators concerning the System of Production • Human Resources Indicators • Indicators concerning Knowledge Creation and Awareness • Indicators concerning Development of Innovation Indicators chosen should be: available, acceptable and comparable. www.corinna-net.info

18. CORINNA Innovation Policy Benchmarking The effectiveness of innovation policy depends not only on the design and implementation ofindividual policy instruments for innovation (e.g.tax incentives, public/private partnership programmes),but also on the way instruments are combined into policy mixes that offer complementary and mutuallyreinforcing support for regional/national innovation systems. www.corinna-net.info

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24. Detailed description of innovation performance: list of indicators - lessonslearned Due to unavailability of data on regional level indicators concerning development of innovation (e.g. share of innovative enterprises, innovation expenditures, sales of product innovations from manufacturing enterprises, new enterprises per sector) had to be excluded from the benchmarking exercise. www.corinna-net.info

25. Innovation Policy Benchmarking - lessonslearned Comparability of data is limited due to many differences: • Objectives of instruments differ even within “similar instruments” – subjective classification. • Time frames of instrument. • Financial investments. • Implementation models. • Governance levels: national innovation policy instruments are still dominant at the regional level. • “Zero base” levels are not similar. • Influence of socio-economic context (economic structure, history, …). IT IS DIFFICULT TO DEFINE “REGIONAL” INNOVATION POLICY MIX! www.corinna-net.info

26. Innovation Policy Benchmarking - lessonslearned • Innovation policy instruments operate in a specific national/federal or regional institutional setting and governance structure. • The effectiveness of policies depends on their role in a regional/national innovation system.Therefore innovation policy instruments part of a “policy mix”: their effectiveness and relevance depend on other policy measures. • There are different approaches at the regional level as on national or international level. It becomes apparent that regional, national and European policy actors and organisations can shape the development and dynamics of regional innovation systems (multi level governance). • Transferability/diffusion of policies is limited: Policy conclusions which are drawn from the analysis of “success stories” are only of limited use for less favoured regions, as their innovation capabilities deviate in many respects from these role models. • There is no evaluation culture at the regional level. www.corinna-net.info

27. Innovation Policy Benchmarking - lessonslearned • Interregional regional innovation policy benchmarking is beneficial in order to learn from success factors and pitfalls in other countries and adapt to own situation. • There is a need for extensive discussion on results of the benchmarking process – expert groups. • Policy makers should play an active role during the process in order to support the process and to be aware of methodological pitfalls. www.corinna-net.info

28. Innovation Policy Benchmarking - lessonslearned Thank you for your kind attention! Damjan Kavaš Contact: kavasd@ier.si www.corinna-net.info