STRINNOP Strengthening the Regional Innovation Profile ' Improving innovation in SMEs through intera

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STRINNOP Strengthening the Regional Innovation
Profile . Improving innovation in SMEs through
interaction between regions.

• Meeting of the IRE Thematic Network
  Co-ordinatorsLuxemburg, 15th / 16th May 2003
• Conny HamannBIA Bremer Innovations-Agentur GmbH
• Irma PriedlAmt der NÖ Landesregierung

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Objectives of STRINNOP

• Strengthening the regional innovation profile
• Support of the innovation activities of the
  regional SMEs and thus strengthen their
  international competitiveness
• Facilitating and fostering the experience
  exchange of the network-members development of
  best-practice approaches which are gathered in a
  guidebook and distributed to other regions
• Creating synergy-effects by combining individual
  regional methodologies
• Generating new co-operation projects between the
  twelve STRINNOP members

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The Partner Regions
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Approach of STRINNOP

• The determining factor for the development of
  such a unique regional image in the sense of a
  trade mark
• are not single innovation factors,
• but the interplay of these factors
• and the external marketing of the existing
  potential and successes of the region.

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The amended STRINNOP Approach
Attachment of Good Practice Tools
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Several Regional Good Practices are listed for
each step
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Description of a single Regional Good Practice
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Pilot survey on regional innovation indicators
according Innovation Scoreboard (June 2002)
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Barriers to measuring the Regional Innovation
Profile (STRINNOP experiences)

• Limited availability of data
• not compulsory for the regions to provide the
  data on regional level
• availability varies from region to region,
• depending among others from the size of the
  regions
• Time-consuming and high effort required
• different sources
• some regional data exist but are not official
  available
• Costs for data
• Insufficient freshness of data to monitor impact
  of activities
• Qualitative indicators
• missing transparency of regional innovation
  system in single regions
• Significance definition and common understanding
  of single qualitative indicators
• Who is authorised in the region to assess the
  Regional Innovation Profile?
• Difficulties in finding overall agreements by
  involved regions on appropriate indicators

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but there are also increasing activities on
Regional Innovation Indicators

• European Innovation Scoreboard EU Regions,
  Technical Paper No 3
• Benchmarking pilot project Analyses of
  RITTS/RIS-projects with respect to common
  regional indicators for innovation and the
  innovation supporting infrastructure
• Urban Audit I and II
• Activities in single European regions and on
  national level
• Activities of single northern American
  states/regions in USA and Canada

thus each region should try to create synergy
effects in setting up own activities on already
existing activities within Europe
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Consequence of these findings

• Development of a set of indicators
• Assigned to single STRINNOP steps
• Including quantitative indicators of European
  Innovation Scoreboard, which are already
  available on regional level (or can be made
  available within a manageable effort)
• Including quantitative and qualitative
  indicators,eg. from the analyses of
  RITTS/RIS-projects, further regional surveys,
  expert enquiries
• under its way

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Further proceeding of STRINNOP

• Feedback of regions on suggested indicators
• Joint meeting of the Thematic networks innoba and
  STRINNOP
• First (internal) drawing of the Regional
  Innovation Profileby each STRINNOP member, if
  data are already available
• Open STRINNOP Conference in Bremenon 16th 17th
  October 2003
• Common interest of several members of the
  Thematic networks of METROPOLIS and STRINNOP in
  development/pilot application of a pragmatic tool
  for a Regional Innovation Profile
• Interest of STRINNOP members in more detailed
  exchange on single, within the Thematic Network
  presented good practice tools, culminating in
  trans-regional transfer

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More information under www.strinnop.net ......
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