Transnational collaboration for innovation : Services of the S3 Platform

1. Transnationalcollaboration for innovation:Services ofthe S3 Platform John Edwards MED programmecapitalisationconference Marseille, 2 April 2014

2. The S3 Platform • Designed to assist regions and countries in developing RIS3 • Launched in June 2011 • Managed by JRC-IPTS in Seville • Monitored by a Steering Team incl. DG REGIO, RTD, ENTR, EAC, INFSO, AGRI EU Countries registered: 14 EU Regions registered 146 Non-EU Regions registered: 2 S3P Peer-reviewed Countries: 8 S3P Peer-reviewed Regions: 45

3. Main activities of S3 Platform in support of the countries/regions preparing RIS3 7. Research agenda 1. The RIS3 methodological Guide Eye@RIS3 6. Interactive tools, S3 Newsletter and Website 2. Peer Review workshops & trans-national learning 3. Country- and Macro-region events and targeted seminars at IPTS 5. Thematic workshops & working groups 4. RIS3 assessment and support to REGIO desks

4. S3 Peer Review Methodology - a tool for mutual transnational learning

5. Synergies in R&I funding The European Parliament and Council made it clear that this [synergies] approach is no more a "nice to have" but a "need to implement" (draft EC SWD) • Synergies can be achieved: • Through bringing together H2020 and ESIF in the same project (that could be a single action or a group of coordinated actions/operations, but always provided that there is no double funding in the same expenditure item); • Through successive projects that build on each other or; • Through parallel projects that complement each other. • In addition, if the ESIF programmes are designed and implemented accordingly, they can be used for funding high quality H2020 project proposals with a score above the threshold, for which there is not enough H2020 budget available. • Synchronisation of the timing of the funding decisions under Horizon 2020 and ESIF is a crucial issue for enabling the cumulation of funding in the same project.

6. Horizon 2020: Spreading excellence and widening participation • New Part III-a in Horizon 2020, budget c. €800m: • Teaming (Centres of Excellence) • Twinning (institutional networking) • ERA Chairs (bringing excellence to institutions) • Policy Support Facility and strengthening of NCPs • Special programme from COST on Widening actions

7. Synergies and ESIF allocation flexibility • Article 70(2) CPR stipulates a possibility of allocations to operations outside the programme area, up to: • 15% of the ERDF, CF, EMFF at the level of the priority • 5% of the support from the EAFRD at the level of the programme • 3% of the budget of a European Social Fund (ESF) operational programme • Article 96(3)d: OPs shall describe arrangements for interregional and transnational actions within the (mainstream) OPs with beneficiaries located in at least one other Member State.

8. S3P activities to support collaboration • Facilitating mutual learning and knowledge sharing • Alignment of roadmaps: • Fostering alignment between European, national and regional innovation roadmaps; • Promoting synergies and co-investment opportunities (e.g. in the context of Horizon 2020 and the “stairway to excellence”); • Support the creation of groups around common themes to work with territorial co-operation strand of the EU cohesion policy. • A specific focus on EU macro-regional strategies • Link to the 2014-2020 INTERREG VC programme

9. What can the Platform do in relation to collaboration? • Facilitate mutual learning – with aim to perform better at home • Peer reviews • Thematic events • Arrange for Twinning – co-development • Training of collaboration process leaders • For thematic platforms?? • Nudging- top down allow for bottom up • Initiation of collaboration • Connecting RIS3 in the BSR • Support and follow collaborative processes e.g. new Adriatic-Agean strategy • Analysis • Inter-regional collaboration in RIS3 • RIS3 guide • KETs report • Match making – bottom up identification • Self-discovery • EYE@RIS3 • Tool for Structural Regional Benchmarking • Thematic events, e.g. Role of universities

10. Eye@RIS3 – an online database for RIS3 priorities • Enable Regions and Member States to position themselves, • To find their unique niches • To seek out potential partners for collaboration • Categories are not perfect matches • Approx 130 regions and 800 priorities • Specialisationfieldsareemergingthatarerelatedto: • Energy • Life science • ICT • Environment • Agro-food • Tourism http://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/map

11. Unpacking Interregional collaboration in Innovation - I

12. Why do regions want to collaborate? • To reach a wider knowledge base and a wider pool of financial and other resources necessary for innovation • Improve opportunities for entrepreneurial self-discovery • Get access to complementary assets. • Compensate for competence or capability failures • Sharing of costs (and risks) • Increase connectivity – avoid lock-in • Facilitate policy coordination and policy learning

13. A Policymakers Guide to Transnational Learning • How to go from dialogue to real change? • From outsider perspective to self-discovery • What is your challenge and what is your driver of change? • Points towards what do you need to do in the different S3 steps • Points toward what characteristics of transnational learning could be beneficiary What can go wrong…? Drivers of change Exploited in S3 policy How to succeed with right angle to transnational learning

14. What are we collaborating on, common problems, opportunities, or learning? • Addressing common problems, like planning, transport and environmental considerations. • Exploiting opportunities by bringing together complementary assets or common priorities. • Promotion of learning.

15. Who to collaborate with and where to find them? Source OECD (2013), Cross bordercollaboration

16. How to collaborate • Joint research activities • Joint provision of research infrastructure • Sharing technology transfer infrastructure • Provision of joint funds for private R&D • Joint provision of innovation support • Facilitating access to finance • Promotion of cluster and firm networks • Demand side innovation policy instruments • Framework policies • Intelligence gathering exercises

17. Intensity of collaboration? • Involve information sharing only, on e.g. innovation policy initiatives, research programmes, market intelligence, etc. • Consist of concrete, ad hoc, projects, limited in time. • Involve policy coordination, for instance aligning funding programme conditions and other conditions such as mobility incentives for researchers • Jointly funded programmes or actions addressing common problems • Adopt the form of joint strategies that are commonly designed, funded and implemented by the partner regions, and which inform a mix of policies and actions.

18. Challenges and preconditions for collaboration depend on • Proximities: • Geographical • Cultural • Trust • Levels of innovation development • National institutional systems • Engagement from key stakeholders and political commitment

19. Thank you! http://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu JRC-IPTS-S3PLATFORM@ec.europa.eu