Building a Europe of Knowledge

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EU research and innovation policy
Summerschool of Alpeuregio, 30 June 2011
Wolfgang Burtscher DG Research and
Innovation European Commission
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Building a European Research Area
Article 179 Lissabon Treaty The Union shall have
the objective of strengthening its scientific and
technological bases by achieving a European
research area in which researchers, scientific
knowledge and technology circulate freely, and
encouraging it to become more competitive,
including in industry, while promoting all
research activities deemed necessary by virtue of
the Chapters of this Treaty.
National programmes
European research policy
Open Coordination
Framework programme
European organisations
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Why research at European level?

• Pooling and leveraging resources
• Resources are pooled to achieve critical mass
• Leverage effect on private investments
• Interoperability and complementarity of big
  science
• Fostering human capacity and excellence in ST
• Stimulate training, mobility and career
  development of researchers
• Improve ST capabilities
• Stimulate competition in research
• Better integration of European RD
• Create scientific base for pan-European policy
  challenges
• Encourage coordination of national policies
• Effective comparative research at EU-level
• Efficient dissemination of research results

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FP impact on ST and the economy

• Economic benefits
• Reduced commercial risk
• increased turnover and profitability
• enhanced productivity and market share
• Innovative performance
• Enterprises participating in FP
• tend to be more innovative
• more likely to patent
• co-operate with other firms and universities

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4-7
(long-run, econometric models)
(research) at European level
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Budgets of the EU Framework Programmes
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FP7 (2007-2013) The Structure
Cooperation Collaborative research
Ideas Frontier Research
People Marie Curie Actions
Capacities Research Capacity

JRC non-nuclear research
Euratom direct actions JRC nuclear research
Euratom indirect actions nuclear fusion and
fission research
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FP7 Indicative breakdown ( million)
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FP7 Cooperationbringing together our best
talents from across Europe (researchers, industry
and SMEs) to tackle the following areas

• Health
• Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology
• Information and Communication Technologies
• Nano-sciences, Nano-technologies, Materials and
  new Production Technologies
• Energy
• Environment (including Climate Change)
• Transport (including Aeronautics)
• Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities
• Space
• Security.

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Cooperation Collaborative Research

• Under each theme there will be sufficient
  flexibilityto address both Emerging needs and
  Unforeseen policy needs
• Dissemination of knowledge and transfer of
  resultswill be supported in all thematic areas
• The Specific Programme Cooperation will also
  feature
• Collaborative research (Collaborative projects
  Networks of Excellence Coordination/support
  actions)
• Joint (European)Technology Initiatives
• Coordination of non-Community research
  programmes(ERA-NET ERA-NET Article 169)
• International Cooperation

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Cooperation programme - thematic areas( million)
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FP7 Ideasconducting Frontier Research - The
European Research Council (ERC)

• Frontier (basic) Research is a key driver to
  innovation and economic performance
• establish the European Research Council (ERC)
  the first pan-European funding agency for
  Frontier Research
• support investigator-driven frontier research
  over all areas of research
• European added-value through competition at
  European level
• budget 1 billion per year (2007-2013 7.46
  billion)
• autonomous scientific governance (Scientific
  Council)
• support projects of individual teams
• excellence as sole criterion

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Ideas Frontier Research (2)

• ERC Launch Strategy provides for two streams of
  funding activities starting in 2007
• ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant scheme
  (ERC Starting Grant)
• ERC Advanced Investigator Researcher Grant scheme
  (ERC Advanced Grant)

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ERC Annual Budget Evolution2007 2013 Total
7.51 BN
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The People Programme in FP7

• People programme Marie Curie Actions
• From pure mobility actions to a dedicated
  programme for structuring training, mobility and
  career development
• Objectives
• Strengthening the human potential in RD in
  Europe
• Stimulate people to enter into the profession of
  researcher
• Encouraging researchers to stay in Europe
• Attracting researchers from around the world
• Addressed to researchers at all stages of their
  careers

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People Marie Curie Actions

• Initial training of researchers
• Marie Curie Networks
• Life-long training and career development
• Individual Fellowships
• Co-financing of regional/national/international
  programmes
• Industry-academia pathways and partnerships
• Industry-Academia Knowledgesharing Scheme
• International dimension
• Outgoing Incoming International Fellowships
• International Cooperation Scheme
• Reintegration grants
• Support to researcher diasporas
• Specific actions
• Mobility and career enhancement actions
• Excellence awards

Open to third-country nationals
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Marie Curie Actions FP7 vs FP6

• 4 750 million over 7 years
• (50 average increase compared to FP6)
• FP6 human resources and mobility 1580 million
  over 5 years
• Continuity of FP6
• with focus on structuring impact
• Increased private sector participation
• Strengthened international dimension
• Balanced gender objective

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Marie Curie Actions

• Main characteristics
• Open to all domains of research (bottom-up
  approach)
• Application through calls for proposals
• Selection criteria
• ST quality
• Quality of participants
• Impact
• Implementation
• Trans-national and intersectorial (IAPP) mobility
• Budget covers mainly salaries of researchers

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Capacities Research Capacity

1. Research infrastructures
2. Research for the benefit of SMEs
3. Regions of Knowledge
4. Research Potential
5. Science in Society
6. Coherent development of policies
7. Activities of International Cooperation

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Framework conditions for next generation of
research and innovation funding

• Europe Gaps in RD investment and innovation
  compared to international competitors
• Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and
  inclusive growth
• Headline targets, including 3 of GDP invested in
  RD
• 7 flagship initiatives, including Innovation
  Union, Digital Agenda for Europe, Resource
  Efficient Europe, Industrial policy for the
  globalisation era and Youth on the move
• Endorsed at several occasions by European Council
  as key for growth and jobs
• Communication of European Commission on
   EU-Budget Review  (19 th October 2011)
• Interim evaluation of 7 th Framework Programme

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The world share of the EU in RD expenditure has
decreased by 1/5 since 1995
Source DG Research and Innovation Data
Eurostat, OECD, UNESCO,
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Innovation gap with US and Japan, emerging
countries catching up
EU
Percentage gaps between EU performance (0) and
other countries across 12 indicators. Other
counties, such as India and Brazil, are
developing fast. Source 2010 Innovation Union
Scoreboard
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The EU does not get enough revenues from the
world market of technology

• License and patent revenues from abroad
• ( of GDP)

Source DG Research and Innovation Data Eurostat
Notes (1) EU 2004. (2) US, JP 2008.
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Shortcomings of research and innovation funding
- Interim evaluation of FP7

• Complexity - too many instruments and funding
  mechanisms, complex landscape
• Further simplification- less variation in rules,
  simpler audits and controls, avoid duplicate
  information
• Better strategy for innovation involve users,
  how to commercialise results, generate impacts
• Need to focus resources with critical mass to
  address the grand challenges
• Broaden participation industry, SMEs, new
  Member States, women, new innovation actors
• Clearer agendas - driven by scientific,
  industrial, social objectives

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Common Strategic Framework

• Major improvements to EU research and innovation
  funding for post 2013 period
• Scope
• The Framework Programme for research,
  technological development and demonstration
  (currently FP7, 53 billion 2007-2013)
• The Competitiveness and Innovation Framework
  Programme (CIP) (3.6 billion 2007-2013)
• The European Institute for Innovation and
  Technology (EIT) (309 million 2007-2013)
• Strengthening complementarities with the
  Structural Funds (86 billion)
• Coherent set of funding instruments along the
  whole innovation chain
• Basis for far reaching simplification of rules
  and procedures

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CSF will increase IMPACT

• FROM different priorities in each programme and
  initiative
• TO common strategic priorities, focusing on
• Excellence in the science base (e.g. ERC, Marie
  Curie, research infrastructures)
• Tackling societal challenges such as health and
  wellbeing, food security, secure, clean and
  efficient energy, smart transport, resource
  efficiency and climate, etc.)
• Creating industrial leadership and competitive
  frameworks (SMEs, RSFF, JU, etc.)
• FROM gaps between the stages (RD, demonstration,
  market take up, etc)
• TO coherent support for projects and
  organisations across the innovation cycle from
  research to retail
• FROM difficult translation of research results
  into products/services
• TO stronger support for innovation, including
  non-technological innovation and market take up