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Work Package 4 Learning Process for Reflective Policy Making

Work Package 4 Learning Process for Reflective Policy Making. 3rd TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE AND STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING 18 Sept – Thessaloniki (Greece). partner: Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH - AWS (PP9) presenter: Christina Windisch place: Thessaloniki (Greece)

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Work Package 4 Learning Process for Reflective Policy Making

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  1. Work Package 4 Learning Process for Reflective Policy Making 3rd TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE AND STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING 18 Sept – Thessaloniki (Greece) partner: Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH - AWS (PP9) presenter: Christina Windisch place: Thessaloniki (Greece) date: 18 September 2013

  2. WORK PACKAGE 4.1 Learning inputs from past actions analysis partner: Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH - AWS (PP9) presenter: Christina Windisch place: Thessaloniki (Greece) date: 18 September 2013

  3. Status Quo (WP4.1) - #1 • Objective 1 • Methodology, guidelines & tools (1) • scientific group • ->done(mail sent to implementation – and support group on 22 Nov’12) • Objective 2 • Regional-based policies assessment reports (13) • implementation – with support group • ->done(121 factsheets and 47 survey questionnaires in total received by 27 Mar’13*) • ->done(12 reports received by 18 Jun’13*) partner: Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH - AWS (PP9) presenter: Christina Windisch place: Thessaloniki (Greece) date: 18 September 2013

  4. Status Quo (WP4.1) - #2 • Objective 3 • Overall impact assessment dossier (1) • scientific group • -> in process(report written and draft versions sent to PPs 21 Jun’13 and 11 Jul’13 for feedback; only 1 PP provided feedback to date ; finalisation still needed!) • ? final deadline for feedback (4 Oct’13) ? • ? report finalisation & publication ( -WHEN- ) ? partner: Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH - AWS (PP9) presenter: Christina Windisch place: Thessaloniki (Greece) date: 18 September 2013

  5. WP4.1 report - Major conclusions (1) • The major finding from the analysis performed is the huge difference in the level of clusterpolicy development and operations of cluster organisations, which affects all 6 cluster developmentareas. • Hence the biggest challenge for policy makers will be in the lowering ofsuch differences and in the homogenisation of operating conditions for clusters, with focused actionsadapted to their level of development. • One the biggest opportunities lies in the knowledge transferand the transfer of good practices from more to less developed regions /countries /cluster organisations. • A potential solution to lower such disparities could also be also in the development of focusedinternational cluster networks, with the aim of transferring accumulated knowledge, good practices and experiences on different levels (policy makers / cluster organisations / cluster members). partner: Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH - AWS (PP9) presenter: Christina Windisch place: Thessaloniki (Greece) date: 18 September 2013

  6. WP4.1 report - Major conclusions (2) • In most cluster organisations there is a wider problem of financing and obtaining financial resources forfurther cluster development and operations. (Theproblem differs depending on the level of development of the cluster policy / country / prior clustertradition.) • One potential solution to this problem could be the more intensive involvement of financialinstitutions in the membership of cluster organisations (in all clusters analysed, there are only 3 financial institutions). (In this way, cluster members could get into closer contact with financing institutions,which would help them the to better present their companies and operations, and potentially receivecredits for their operations.) partner: Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH - AWS (PP9) presenter: Christina Windisch place: Thessaloniki (Greece) date: 18 September 2013

  7. WP4.1 report - Major conclusions (3) • Regarding cluster financing, there are very big differences concerning the share of public and privatefunds. An reccomendation to cluster organisations would be to adequately balance the structure betweenpublic and private financing, especially to those where public financing exceeds the threshold of 50%. • From the responses is evident that countries (cluster organisations) where public financing sources exceed the proposed level, focus their lobbying mostly on “national” policy makers, whilstthere are little possibilities. To overcome such financial constraints, certain clusters have alsodeveloped innovative solutions (e.g. Romania). partner: Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH - AWS (PP9) presenter: Christina Windisch place: Thessaloniki (Greece) date: 18 September 2013

  8. WP4.1 report - Limitations (1) • The first major limitation of the study is the huge difference in the countries / regions regarding the level of development and operations of cluster policy, thus it is difficult to arrive at general conclusions. • The second main limitation concerns the comparability of knowledge regarding the way in which the data collection was performed by different interviewers. (It was almost impossible to verify this element, because certain countries / regions have very few clusters, with a short cluster policy history (e.g. Albania), while in other countries / regionds there is a rich cluster presence and history / “background”.) partner: Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH - AWS (PP9) presenter: Christina Windisch place: Thessaloniki (Greece) date: 18 September 2013

  9. WP4.1 report - Limitations (2) • A further major limitation concerns the selection of “representative” clusters, proposed by the partners of a country / region, i.e. sampling. Project partners interviewed the clusters of their choice, but such clusters may not really be representative of the country / region. (They could be, but we do not know.) • In some countries / regions, clusters have just started to be established and it can be expected that they will have to deal with totally different problems and challenges than clusters in developed countries / regions with longer cluster policy traditions. partner: Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH - AWS (PP9) presenter: Christina Windisch place: Thessaloniki (Greece) date: 18 September 2013

  10. WP4.1 report - Limitations (3) • Another limitation could also be the respondent bias: certain partners when performing the interviews (for different reasons) interviewed cluster members instead of official representatives of the cluster organisation. • This could be a very strong limitation, because in certain aspects the interests may vary between these two target groups. (Unfortunately we do not know exactly which countries / clusters decided to approach the data collection and respondents selection in such a manner. Potentially, another questionnaire could be developed and targeted to cluster members, to verify the potential differences between official cluster organisation representatives and cluster members.) partner: Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH - AWS (PP9) presenter: Christina Windisch place: Thessaloniki (Greece) date: 18 September 2013

  11. WP4.1 report - Limitations (4) Even with the limitations just presented, which wedidfor the purpose of „scientific truth“, we believe that that the present study represents a solidanalysis for setting further cluster policy strategies and initiatives. *Thank you all for your contribution.* partner: Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH - AWS (PP9) presenter: Christina Windisch place: Thessaloniki (Greece) date: 18 September 2013

  12. WORK PACKAGE 4.2 New contribution from innovative info sources gathered from workshops partner: Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH - AWS (PP9) presenter: Christina Windisch place: Thessaloniki (Greece) date: 18 September 2013

  13. Status Quo (WP4.2) - #1 • Objective 1 • Methodology, guidelines & tools (1) • scientific group; • ->done(mail sent to implementation – and support group on 30 Apr’13) • Objective 2 • Regional-based foresight exercise reports (13) • implementation – with support group; target date: 30 Apr’1328 Jun’13 • -> in process(mail sent to implementation – and support group on 26 Apr’13; 2 months to carry out 2 workshops & write report thereon; only 5 PPs provided feedback to date  *> reports (Excel + Word) needed!!!) • ? final deadline (30 Sep’13) ? partner: Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH - AWS (PP9) presenter: Christina Windisch place: Thessaloniki (Greece) date: 18 September 2013

  14. Status Quo (WP4.2) - #2 • Objective 3 • ClusterPoliSEE report on foresight exercise (1) • scientific group; target date: 31 May’1331 Jul’13 • -> not yet started (overall report to be written, based on feedback reports from implementation – and support group) • ? new deadline (1 Nov’13) ? • ? finaldeadline (22 Nov’13) ? • ? report finalisation & publication ( -WHEN- ) ? partner: Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH - AWS (PP9) presenter: Christina Windisch place: Thessaloniki (Greece) date: 18 September 2013

  15. WORK PACKAGE 4.3 Policy learning from current regional policies framework partner: Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH - AWS (PP9) presenter: Christina Windisch place: Thessaloniki (Greece) date: 18 September 2013

  16. Status Quo (WP4.3) - #1 • Objective 1 • Methodology, guidelines & tools (1) • scientific group; target date: 31 Oct‘12 • ->done(mail sent to implementation – and support group on 7 Dec’12) • Objective 2 • SWOT regional-based analyses (13) • implementation – with support group; • ->done(12 reports received by 8 Jul’13*) partner: Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH - AWS (PP9) presenter: Christina Windisch place: Thessaloniki (Greece) date: 18 September 2013

  17. Status Quo (WP4.3) - #2 • Objective 3 • ClusterPoliSEE SWOT final report (1) • scientific group; target date: 31 Jan’1331 May’13 • -> in progress(overall report to be written, based on SWOT-analyses from implementation – and support group) • ? new deadline (1 Nov’13) ? • ? final deadline (22 Nov’13) ? • ? report finalisation & publication ( -WHEN- ) ? partner: Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH - AWS (PP9) presenter: Christina Windisch place: Thessaloniki (Greece) date: 18 September 2013

  18. WORK PACKAGE 4.4 Learning / understanding from study visits and benchmarking partner: Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH - AWS (PP9) presenter: Christina Windisch place: Thessaloniki (Greece) date: 18 September 2013

  19. Status Quo (WP4.4) - #1 • Objective 1 • Study visits-toolbox (1) • ERDF-PPs 9, 10; target date: 30 Nov‘12 • ->done(mail sent to PPs of the study visit group on 30 Nov’12) • Objective 2 • Study visits incl. reports, peer review recommendations (6) • Study visit group/all PPs; target date: 31 Jul’1330 Nov‘13 • -> in process(5 study visits already carried out, 1 last study visit to be carried out: 21, 22 Nov’13* in Novi Sad, host(s) Serbia / Moldavia (?)) • -> Please all participating PPs – submit reports after study visits! • -> Please all hosts – submit host reports! (4 out of 5 to date*) partner: Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH - AWS (PP9) presenter: Christina Windisch place: Thessaloniki (Greece) date: 18 September 2013

  20. Status Quo (WP4.4) - #2 • Objective 3 • Comparative benchmarking analysis (1) • ERDF-PPs 9, 10 ; target date: 31 Oct’13 30 Nov’13 • -> concept drafted (PPs will be informed of concept and possible information needs / feedback beginning of October) • ? new deadline (21 Dec’13) ? • ? final deadline (13 Jan’13) ? • ? report finalisation & publication ( -WHEN- ) ? partner: Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH - AWS (PP9) presenter: Christina Windisch place: Thessaloniki (Greece) date: 18 September 2013

  21. Thank you for your attention. Christina Windisch (Project Manager) EU Affairs / Public Consulting Phone: +43 (1) 501 75 – 336 Fax: +43 (1) 501 75 – 494 c.windisch@awsg.at partner: Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH - AWS (PP9) presenter: Christina Windisch place: Thessaloniki (Greece) date: 18 September 2013

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