2012-2020 National Innovation Strategy of the Republic of Moldova. Vision , goals and priorities

1. 2012-2020 National Innovation Strategy of the Republic of Moldova. Vision, goals and priorities Ghenadie CERNEI Director, Agency for Innovation & Technology Transfer Academy of Sciences of Moldova UNECE Conference 27 October, 2011 Chisinau, Republic of Moldova

2. Overview • Formally started to be developed in March, 2011 • Republic of Moldova’s Government action plan for 2011 • Working group, representatives of main actors in R&D (ME, MF, MAFI, MEc, MRDC, MEd, MITC, MH, ASM, AITT, IEFS) • Led by vice prime-ministry, ministry of Economy

3. Development team

4. Goal The goal of this strategy is to define the vision, objectives and measures for creating a sustainable economy based on knowledge and innovation in the Republic of Moldova.

5. Structure • Part I. Current Situation In The R&D And Innovation Systems • Part II. Defining The Problems That Require Government Involvement For The Strategy Implementation • Part III. 2012-2020 Vision, Goals, Priorities And Measures • Part IV. ESTIMATED IMPACT OF STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION AND Funding Mechanisms • Part V. Implementation

6. RDI Statistics

7. R&D recent developments

8. Science and innovation in major policy documents

10. SWOT analysis

11. SWOT analysis (cont.)

12. Vision By 2020 at least 25% of the national GDP will be generated by innovation activities and "In the period 2012-2020 the Republic of Moldova will increase its orientation towards innovation-based development and will become competitive regionally and globally in several priority areas, will develop the national education and R&D innovation systems, will enhance performance and create favorable conditions for entrepreneurship, develop and stimulate innovative firms".

13. Dynamics of the sectors with the highest contribution to the GDP (2001-2010)

14. Sectors • Agriculture • ICT • Light industry • Machinery industry • Infrastructure • Renewable energy

15. Strategy approach • No priority sectors • Support to sectors that will show higher contribution to the GDP and export growth • Encouraging the synergistic development of inter-sectorial tools that will provide capacity-building in various economy sectors, in correlation with market demand and national and global economic opportunities.

16. General Objectives • Creation of enabling conditions for an innovation-friendly environment • Formation of an educated and creative human capital, able to innovate • Development of an open, competitive and attractive R&D environment • Development of innovative companies, with high flexibility and technological excellence

17. A. Creation of enabling conditions for an innovation-friendly environment A1. Identification and elimination of barriers; A2. Improving access to finance; A3. Counseling services on various innovation aspects; A4. Venture funds to invest in innovative companies; A5. Support local innovations through public procurement; A6. Enhancing the capacity of public institutions in the field of innovations; A7. Access to international markets with the support of the state’s export promotion activities; A8. Implementation of an innovation statistics system

18. B. Formation of an educated and creative human capital, able to innovate. B1. Increasing the number of young people in the 20-24 years age group, who reached at least the secondary level of higher education, to at least 78% (today – 60%) B2. Increasing the number of people in the 30-34 years age group between, who reached the tertiary level of higher education, to at least 32% (today – cca 20%) B3. Increasing the number of PhD students, especially in the engineering specialties, to reach the EU27 average. B4. Increasing the number of employees involved in lifelong learning to at least 15 out of 100 employees. B5. Development of an entrepreneurial and innovative culture in higher education institutions.

19. C. Development of an open, competitive and attractive R&D environment C1. Increasing the number of scientific publications with at least one co-author from abroad, reaching an annual level of at least 250 publications per 1 million inhabitants, including among the TOP10% cited publications around the world; C2. Increasing the number of scientific publications with at least one co​​-author from the business sector; C3. Increasing the number of foreign PhD students and of domestic PhD students doing their doctorate abroad; C4. Achieving the level of the average EU27 public expenditure for R&D by 2015 and maintaining it until 2020; C5. Increasing the number of foreign researchers working in the Republic of Moldova; C6. Developing active university-industry partnerships with companies; C7. Increasing the number of young researchers to at least 40% of total number of researchers; C8. Improving the evaluation of R&D and innovation projects by using foreign experts from EU and OECD countries, to a level of at least 50% of the evaluation team; C9. Improving the structure and conditions of R&D and innovation funding in accordance with existing European programmes

20. D. Development of innovative companies, with high flexibility and technological excellence D1. Increasing business expenditure on R&D and innovation (BERD) to the level of EU27 average D2. Increasing the share of SMEs developing in-house innovation activities to at least 40%; D3. Increasing the share of SMEs implementing innovative products or processes to at least 35%; D4. Increasing the share of SMEs developing joint innovative activities with other firms to at least 10% D5. Increasing the number of public-private publications to achieve at least 40 per 1 million population, D6. Increasing the number of patent applications to at least 5 patents per EUR 1 billion GDP; D7. Increasing the number of applications for trade mark registration to at least 10 applications per EUR1 billion GDP; D8. Increasing the number of requests for community designs to at least the double of the current level; D9. Increasing the involvement in knowledge-intensive activities of at least 15% of employees  D10. Increasing the share of medium and high-tech production exports to 35 % of total exports; D11. Increasing the share of knowledge-intensive services to at least 50% of exports; D12. Increasing the share of foreign sales of patents and licenses to at least at least 0.5% of GDP.

21. Expected impact • Enhancing national economic competitiveness on local and foreign markets, with high quality and knowledge intensive products and services; • Increased domestic and foreign investment in the economy; • Job creation; • Regional development; • Stronger scientific and innovative support to the socio-economic development of the country; • Consolidated innovation infrastructure and adjusted to the European practices; • Stronger innovative culture and entrepreneurship spirit in the society; • Human capital development; • Improved management of the national innovation system; • Spurred international scientific cooperation; • Improved living standards of the population and accelerated transition to the knowledge economy.

22. Thank you @: Ghenadie.cernei@aitt.md www.aitt.md