Diapositiva 1

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MLP WORKSHOP How to make Regional Growth Poles
work Emilia Romagna Regional Growth
Pole Valeria Bandini ASTER Scienza Tecnologia
Impresa 14 June 2006, Brussels
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Focus of the presentation

• Is Emilia-Romagna a growth pole?
• What are the main ingredients?
• How those ingredients have been combined?

• The Regional Law for Innovation
• The Regional Programme for Industrial Research,
  Innovation and Technology Transfer
• The Emilia-Romagna High Technology Network

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ASTER Consortium

• is the Consortium of the Emilia-Romagna Regional
  Government, the Universities, Research Centres
  and Enterprises based in the region aiming at
• promoting a dynamic knowledge based economy,
  stimulating and supporting industrial research,
  TT and innovation of the regional productive
  system
• through the development of projects and services
  of common interest

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ASTERs Shareholders

• Bussinesses organisations
• Unioncamere Emilia-Romagna (Federation of
  Emilia-Romagna Chambers of Commerce)
• CNA Emilia-Romagna (Confederation of the micro
  and SMEs)
• Confartigianato Emilia-Romagna (Confederation of
  micro and SMEs)
• Confcommercio Emilia-Romagna (Confederation for
  Trade)
• Confcooperative Emilia-Romagna (Confederation of
  Cooperatives)
• Confindustria Emilia-Romagna (Confederation of
  Industries)
• Legacoop Emilia-Romagna (Cooperatives League)
• Unionapi Emilia-Romagna (Confederation of SMEs)
• Regional Services Centres (Cercal, Cermet,
  Cesma, Citer, Quasco)

• Regional Government
• Emilia-Romagna Region
• Universities and Research Centres
• National Council of Research (CNR)
• University of Bologna
• University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
• University of Ferrara
• University of Parma
• University La Cattolica Piacenza
• National Body for Energy, Environment, Innovation
  (ENEA)
• National Institute of Astrophisics (INAF)

Regional Government share 29,5 Universities/Rese
arch Centres 54,5
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Moving from 1985 to 2005
1985
From industrial economy
New regional strategies
To knowledge economy
2005
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Emilia-Romagna at a glance

• Surface 22,123 Km2
• Inhabitants 4,151,369
• Population density 181/Km2
• GDP per capita 27,584 (2002)
• GDP per capita index 136.4
• (EU 25 average equal to 100, Eurostat 2002)
• 8.7 of national GDP (2004)
• 64,8 services
• 32 industry
• 3.2 agriculture
• Unemployment rate 3.1 (Italy 8.4 EU 25 9.1,
  Eurostat 2003)

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A strategic location
ITALY
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A strong business sector

• OVER 420,000 ENTERPRISES
• 1 every 9,7 inhabitants
• over 66,000 manufacturing enterprises, most SMEs
• over 8.000 exporting on a systematic way
• over 4,800 cooperatives
• Sectors of excellence
• Agriculture Food, Car and Motor industry,
  Industrial mechanics, Building Construction,
  Fashion (clothing, shoes, leather), Furniture
• Emerging sectors
• Health Industry, Bio-technologies and Genomics,
  ICT, Nanotechnologies, New materials, Environment

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Emilia-Romagna Clusters
Agricultural machinery Mechatronics Modena -
Reggio Emilia
Machine tools Piacenza
Biomedical Equipment and Disposables Mirandola
Textile Carpi
Footwear Fusignano S.Mauro Pascoli
Food industry Parma
Woodworking Machinery Rimini
Ceramic tyles (world leaders) Sassuolo
- Cesena
Packaging Bologna
Motorcycles Bologna
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Open to international markets
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Exports in the manufacturing sector per
technological content (RD expenditure)
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The research system universities

• Six universities, with over 130,000 students,
  employing 6,400 professors and researchers, 76
  operating in technical-scientific areas
• Bologna University
• Ferrara University
• Modena and Reggio Emilia University
• Parma University
• Politecnico di Milano (Piacenza branch)
• Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Piacenza
  branch)

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Emilia-Romagna universities location
La Cattolica University
Politecnico di Milano
John Hopkins University
University of Ferrara
University of Parma
Cesena
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
University of Bologna
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The research system research centres

• CNR the National Research Council
• ENEA the National Agency for New Technologies,
  Energy and the Environment
• INFM the National Institute for Matter Physics
• IASF the National Institute for Astrophysics.
• In addition other significant organisations must
  be mentioned, such as
• CINECA the Inter-university Consortium for
  Automatic Computing of North-Eastern Italy
• CNIT - the National Inter-University Consortium
  for Telecommunications
• IOR Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institutes ENEA

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Key framework conditions

• A regional economic and industrial tissue based
  on a traditional, high specialised, export
  oriented industry, operating under the pressure
  of global competitiveness and with a strong need
  of innovation
• A regional research system with high competencies
  on new technologies of potential interest for
  businesses and increasing attention to TT and
  NTBF creation
• Growing attention of regional policies and
  public/private organisations towards research and
  innovation

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Main objectives of the regional innovation policy

• Improve industry-science relations
• Improve the capacities of human resources
  employed both in enterprises and research centres
  to produce new knowledge
• Improve the market exploitation of research
  competences and results through new
  entrepreneurship and the transfer of technology
  to existing companies
• Promote networking and the creation of a critical
  mass of actors and resources

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The Regional Innovation Law 7/2002

• Main objectives
• strengthening the links between the regional
  productive system and the research system,
  facilitating enterprises direct participation
  (SMEs in particular) to industrial and strategic
  research projects
• supporting specific training of human resources
  in universities, research centres and enterprises
  in the fields of industrial research, innovation
  and technology transfer
• developing a system of initiatives, activities
  and structures, as well as networks of actors,
  for industrial research, innovation, technology
  transfer, knowledge production and diffusion.

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The PRRIITT Programme (1)
The Regional Programme for Industrial Research,
Innovation and Technology Transfer
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The PRRIITT Programme (2)

• STRUCTURE OF THE PROGRAMME (1)

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An integrated innovation policy

• Stimulating enterprises RD investments and
  enhance relations between productive and research
  systems
• Favouring the development of SMEs industrial
  laboratories
• Promoting technology intense professional
  activities in order to valorise research results
  (Spinner)
• Supporting new business knowledge and technology
  transfer programmes targeting enterprises
• Developing a network of innovation centres,
  industrial research and TT laboratories The
  Emilia-Romagna High Technology System
• Strengthening services supporting the regional
  network of research and innovation actors

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First results

• 529 companies funded for the development of
  industrial research projects
• 12 industrial laboratories for SMEs funded
• 26 new founded enterprises based on research
  activities
• 27 Research and technology transfer laboratories
• 24 Innovation Centres
• 6 Innovation Parks
• a new Venture Capital Fund (Ingenium)
• Almost 1,500 new research personnel (as a whole)
• Almost 1,300 companies involved (3.1A)
• Almost 780 collaborative research contracts (3.1A)

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The overall investment
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Emilia-Romagna High Technology Network
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The regional foresight exercise
Promotion of interventions and measures
accelerating knowledge creation and diffusion
throughout the regional productive system
Selection of strategic areas for intervention
The Endless Transition Relations Among Social,
Economic and Scientific Development in a Triple
Helix of University-Industry-Government
Relations (Rio, 2000)
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The 7 regional Thematic Working Groups (TWG)

• 1. Environment
• 2. Food/Health
• 3. Motors/Materials
• 4. Information Technologies, Sensors, Logistics
  Industrial Automation
• 5. Life Sciences
• 6. Biomedical / Electromedical
• 7. Nanotechnologies and microsystems

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The 7 regional Thematic Working Groups (TWG)

• For each of the main thematic areas a working
  group was established
• Each working group involved different experts
  coming from the industrial, the scientific and
  the academic base and was coordinated by a member
  of Asters Scientific Committee
• More than 150 experts from the regional
  Universities, the Research Centres and the
  productive system were engaged in the process
  
  

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The TWG operational scheme

• Discussion on industrial needs and the
  availability of scientific competencies
• Validation of the quantitative analysis

• Working Group set-up

brainstorming
Workshops engaging regional researchers and
companies
industrial research project ideas Of regional
relevance
Contribution to the definition of PRRIITT
priorities
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Key elements

• leading role of the Regional Government, with its
  new innovation policy
• strong involvement of different regional actors,
  according to converging interests and networking
  principles
• availability of financial resources
• central role of ASTER (technical assistance to
  the Region, support to actions design, planning
  and development, monitoring of the process,
  management of the Network, development of actions
  and services of common interests, European and
  international perspective, future oriented)

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• THANK YOU VERY MUCH
• valeria.bandini_at_aster.it
• www.aster.it