INTERREG IVC CAPITALISATION Regional innovation policies and different approaches

1. INTERREG IVC CAPITALISATIONRegional innovation policies and different approaches Meeting of 20 May 2010 Christian Saublens Executive Manager EURADA

2. Aim To test a specific methodology in order to maximize the programme’s impact and in particular to: • create the conditions of an optimal exploitation of the knowledge resulting from the projects, • help the programme strengthen its own internal coherence, with the clustering of projects dealing with similar issues, • provide in return relevant thematic information to the running projects and therefore contribute to increasing the quality of their exchange of experience and knowledge, • make the programme’s achievements more visible and to be able to draw some policy recommendations at the European level based on the projects’ results.

3. Methodology • Analyse the 21 projects' work plans in order to issue a project fact sheet , • Meet with five project leaders, • Discuss common challenges and solutions at project and programme levels, • Draft policy recommendations for 3 issues: regional innovation strategies, international exchange of experience and transfer of know-how gained / created thanks to Interreg funding, • Publicize a final report.

4. Achievements • 21 factsheets • 5 projectvisits • Factsheetanalysis • 2 thematic workshops • Ideas for furthercommonactivities

5. Ways of clustering projects • At project level • The core topic of the project • Their sub-objectives • The way they address critical assets to be able to implement regional innovation strategy • The contribution of the project to strengthen the 10 main ingredients of a regional innovation strategy • The place of the project in the regional innovation system/value chain • Implicit capitalisation • At programme level • The composition of the partnership • The nature/type of the project • The foreseen exit strategy • Synergies between projects if partners are involved in more than one • Synergies between projects’ outcomes funded by different programmes, i.e. RoK or Europe Innova. • At good practice level • Impacting the framework conditions • Enhancing enterprise support

6. Response to critical issues • More than half of the projects are dealing with: • Regional innovation instruments for SMEs • Regional eco-innovation system • Involvement of intermediary organisations • Reviewing the regional action plan. • Projects target the improvement of: • the regional strategic capital • institutional and administrative capital • social capital.

7. Response to critical issues • To achieve this, the projects concentrate on: • governance and integrated approach • university/enterprise cooperation • commercialisation of new ideas • start-up creation • market intelligence • new forms of public intervention. • However, the projects do not touch sufficiently on: • access to finance • talent and skills attraction • internationalisation • IPR protection.

8. Place of the project in theRegional Innovation System

9. Place of the project in theRegional Innovation System

10. Implicit capitalisation (1) Projects based on previous collective work

11. Implicit capitalisation (2) Multiproject / programme beneficiaries • 24 organisations are involved in at least 2 Interreg IVC projects • 5 Interreg IVC partners are also involved in projects funded by Regions of Knowledge and by EUROPE INNOVA • 24 Interreg IVC partners are involved in Regions of Knowledg projects • 16 Interreg IVC partners are involved in EUROPE INNOVA projects

12. First conclusions

13. Capitalisation expectations • Policy level • Involvement of Stakeholders • Transition from current practices to the next generation • How to adapt practices to regulation constraints and the incentives to regional power/competence • Complementarity between local assets owners • Involvement of managing authorities • Methodology level • Market intelligence • Building user-driven innovation

14. Capitalisation expectations • Project management level • Mini-programme implementation • Reporting issues • Working plan follow-up • Practice level • Framework conditions • Cooperate social responsability • Methodology for innovation assessment • Putting the quadruple helix in the centre for social innovation • Support for enterprises • Placement of younggraduates in SMEs • Business Angel Networks • Support to clusters • New forms of incubation for start-ups • …

15. Capitalisation exercise • Good practice repository • Thematic events - Urbact: Open innovation - Tillväxt Verket: Innovation environments • Pool of experts • Bilateral contacts

16. General remarks (1) • Innovation is no longer perceived as a consequence of technology development. • Innovation also covers issues such as: • creativity and design • business models • response to societal challenges • services • user driven innovation NB: several projects seem to follow this path, but due to limited best practice data availability this needs further investigation

17. General remarks (2) Most projects are looking at the framework conditions by better involving key stakeholders, enhancing the regional innovation eco-system and reviewing the instruments to support innovation by SMEs. They are looking to strenghtening their strategic capital, as well as the institutional and the adminstrative capital. This leads to improvement in social and societal capital BUT projects are less addressing specific issues related to access to finance, IP protection, technology transfer and human capital. And what about impact assessment?

18. General remarks (3)

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