A NEW INNOVATION STRATEGY FOR REGIONS Improving the effectiveness of innovation policy and innovatio

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A NEW INNOVATION STRATEGY FOR REGIONSImproving
the effectiveness of innovation policy and
innovation-related spending at regional level1
July 2009
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Research questions why, how and who

• How can we demonstrate the importance of
  innovation policy for growth, economic
  restructuring and/or job creation at the regional
  level?
• Spillovers and networks how regional is
  regional innovation?
• Which instruments seem to work and which dont?
• How is regional innovation policy integrated into
  national frameworks?
• Who does what? Who should do what? Where does the
  funding come from and where does it go?
• How do governments measure success?

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The project is organised around four broad
modules

• Module 1 The role of public investment
• Policy mix, value of different instruments in
  different contexts
• Module 2 Collaborative mechanisms at the
  regional level
• Networks, spillovers, local-global value chains
• Module 3 Multi-level governance and funding
• Supra-national, national, regional and local
  roles
• Module 4 Data and indicators to support policy
• Better use of existing data, new ways of
  categorising regions

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Research methodology

• Main sources
• Original OECD survey of member and non-member
  countries to generate up-to-date policy
  information
• Extensive literature reviews
• Policy evaluations, impact assessments, etc.
• Case studies and illustrations of good practice
• Input from workshops
• Managing the project
• Each module will have a co-ordinator responsible
  for bringing together different strands of work
  in each theme
• An advisory committee including OECD, EU and IADB
  and other interested parties will guide the
  process

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Each module will generate

• A robust theoretical/conceptual framework for
  analysis of the key topics
• An overall matrix showing the main
  characteristics of action across OECD countries
  (a tableau de bord)
• Assessment of policy choices and approaches
  leading to conclusions and policy recommendations
• Identification of good practices with respect to
  each theme and an effort to quantify outcomes

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Key dates

• The launching event (1 July 2009)
• A research co-ordination meeting (December 2009)
• the co-ordinators of the thematic reports will
  prepare and present interim papers highlighting
  in more detail the key issues for their themes,
  identifying empirical evidence for further
  exploration and seeking synergies across the
  themes
• A workshop to present thematic reports and case
  studies (April 2010)
• Co-ordinators will present their draft reports
  to include policy narratives, frameworks and case
  study examples
• Final conference (Early 2011)
• to provide a platform to disseminate the
  projects messages to a wider stakeholder
  community

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Module 1 The role of public investment (policy
mix, roles of different instruments) Key themes
and questions

• Strategy
• Do countries have explicit regional innovation
  strategies? How do they define objectives?
  Examples of successful strategies?
• Policy mix
• Can the most appropriate policy instruments be
  identified for particular kinds of region? What
  are the main types of policy mix? What method or
  criteria can we use to gauge success?
• Hard and soft supports
• What is the relationship between physical
  infrastructure and regional innovation systems?
  What other kinds of infrastructures are
  important?
• How are the returns on investment in different
  types of instruments being measured? Can this
  project provide guidance in this area?

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Module 2 Collaborative mechanisms at the
regional level (networks, spillovers,
local-global value chains)Key themes questions

• Regional innovation systems
• What local factors encourage or discourage
  networking? How can we identify and even measure
  knowledge flows ? Should we invest in exploring
  co-invention and similar indicators?
• External networking/global innovation networks
• How is the international organisation of
  innovation evolving (and what sources (OECD,
  other) can this project draw on)?
• How do regional innovation systems fit within
  broader territorial networks? How can we
  demonstrate that RIS is relevant for global
• Sector networks
• How do innovation systems differ across sectors?

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Module 3 Multi-level governance and funding Key
themes and questions

• Multi-level governance
• What is the distribution of roles across
  different levels? What general lessons emerge and
  how can we assess them?
• Do the mechanisms for coordination and evaluation
  ensure appropriate incentives? Or do they limit
  risk taking and restrict regional action?
• Funding
• What should different levels fund in different
  types of country governance arrangements?
• Are there different models for financing of
  regional innovation across national systems, and
  can a typology of models be developed?
• How will innovation financing across levels of
  government be affected by the crisis

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Module 3 Multi-level governance and funding
Managing between levels of government
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Module 3 Multi-level governance and funding
Some general models for research and innovation,
so what is best practice?
Source Based on Technopolis, MERIT, et al. (2006)
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Module 3 Multi-level governance and funding
Roles for regions
Source Perry and May (2007)
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Module 4 Data and evidenceOptions for analysis

• Continue work to demonstrate economic impact of
  innovation investment
• What does the literature show? How can this
  project add value new models, broader
  international coverage?
• Improve understanding of innovation performance
• Estimate innovation performance (i) control for
  contextual factors (population, sectors, etc.),
  (ii) introduce institutional and policy variables
  (such as..? )
• Classify regions by type
• Extend existing cluster analyses (i.e. typologies
  of regions) beyond EU countries
• Establish different typologies of innovation
  systems in OECD region (and beyond) using
  existing indicators

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Questions/suggestions?

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