Redefining the European Policy for Social, Economic and Territorial Convergence

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Redefining the European Policy for Social,
Economic and Territorial Convergence

• Innovative proposals for post 2013
• Luk Palmen

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Europes position in the world in 2013 and 2020

• Vision
• Goals
• Lisbon Strategy
• The day after
• Which are todays fundaments of Europes
  stability?
• Which are the pillars of Europes growth?
• On which drivers we will build to safeguard
  prosperity in the period 2013-2020?

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Europes position in the world in 2013 and 2020

• Does cohesion still have the same meaning in
  2013 as it has now?
• What is our main aim
• To create a Europe where people are able to live
  with change, take up their chances and to create
  new value in an environment that delivers the
  right climate and conditions?
• Or
• To create a Europe of care, social, economic and
  territorial cohesion, driven by an integral
  policy on local and regional level?

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Europes position in the world in 2013 and 2020

• The ability to live with change
• Creativity, entrepreneurship, innovation
• Active participation of elderly people in social
  and economic life
• European centers of excellence to secure global
  competitiveness
• Access to information and services
• Access to centers of growth
• Access to cultural, tourist and social
  offer/services

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• Is 2013 the end of the cohesion policy as we
  knew it for the passed 20 years?

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European Competitiveness Strategy 2010-2030

• RD European Research Area
• Innovation centers of excellence, clusters,new
  standards and platforms
• Social and territorial cohesion IT
  accessibility, battle against content illiteracy,
  services for the elderly, creativity and
  entrepreneurship, civic society, innovation
  absorbing society

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Issues

• Ageing of the population causing pressure on the
  labour market as well as on national budgets
  (pension system, health care, social services)
• Poverty among people not being able to catch up
  with changing situations
• Regional identity, protectionism, xenophobia
• Quality of life quality of food, health care,
  clean water, clean air, clean energy
• Access to natural resources and the global price
  of abusing environment
• Suburbanisation and the raising cost of public
  infrastructure investments and maintenance

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Issues

• Disappearance of boarders between technology
  areas and the problem of social acceptance
• Human resources for creating, implementing and
  experiencing
• Knowledge economy needs a knowledge absorbing
  society
• Digital literacy, content-literacy
• Role of China, India as value creators
• Standards defined by multinationals, services
  defined by the people (open development
  platforms)
• The growing importance of economic centres not
  necessary equalling the administrative boarders
  of a city, region, country
• The vision on a common future versus the battle
  for the national budget
• The end of the regions? (as we know them)

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European Competitiveness Strategy 2010-2030

• European Science Policy - Framework Program for
  Research, Technological Development and
  Demonstration Activities
• European Innovation Policy - Competitiveness and
  Innovation Framework Program with enlarged
  resources to support strengthening Europes
  strengths on the global level
• Social, Economic and Territorial Convergence
  Policy
• We create value
• We create examples
• We grow but we care
• European Union world leader in sustainable
  growth

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Main focus of the debate

• Innovative solutions and mechanisms for the
  period 2013-2020
• The way solutions and mechanisms are being
  interpreted and implemented

It is about the understanding of the complexity
of regional development. It is about the way a
set of diversified tools and mechanisms could be
implemented in the regions in order to create
synergy, social, territorial cohesion and
economic added value.
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What might be the new orientation for cohesion
policy?

• The cohesion policy 2013-2020 should be
  implemented by way of Structural Funds in those
  member states that joined the European Union
  since 2004, with 75 of the budgets regionalized
  (25 for national strategic programs). This
  allows creating integrated programs for regional
  development according to the specific needs and
  potentials of the regions.
• The other European member states should be
  compared with one another by means of a new set
  of indicators that allows running a European
  Innovation Policy in a twofold way
• regions lagging behind in the knowledge based
  economy
• regions being among the top of Europes
  leadership but facing structural difficulties in
  sustaining a strong global economic position.

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How serious is the prospect of renationalisation?

• () social cohesion should remain a matter for
  the European Union as a whole in securing an
  innovation/ knowledge absorbing society.
• Main challenges within this area are
• digitalization of the elderly and initiation of
  online market services / health care services /
  leisure time services / administrative services
  for the elderly
• improving the flexicurity labor market model by
  way of creating local and regional education and
  employee exchange platforms
• strengthening the role of NGOs in local social
  development to integrate those who cannot cope
  with the speed of changes (cultural and social
  changes, content-illiteracy, inability to cope
  with complex problems, intolerance towards the
  new workers form outside).

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How serious is the prospect of renationalisation?

• Renationalisation as a means of more efficient
  and effective negotiations (shortening
  negotiation time) better management of the
  relationships between the European Union and the
  Member States (monitoring of tens of Operational
  Programs instead of hundreds of them) could
  result in a misallocation of funds through
  generalized mechanisms that are not appropriate
  in a certain regional context or also in a lack
  of integrative approaches on regional level.

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Will the Lisbon strategy and cohesion policy be
eventually merged?

• It is not an issue of merging, it is an issue of
  a clear common vision of the position of the
  European Union in the global context.
• An integrated approach allows better allocating
  available financial means in an overall European
  perspective justified by its integral growth
  model in the global context.
• This would include support for the strongest
  (RDI) as well as support for the weakest
  (ISET).

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How can cohesion policy be financed and operate,?

• There will be a growing need to invest in
  self-sustaining solutions and tools as social
  security systems will put national budgets under
  pressure. These self-sustaining solutions should
  however be fully integrated on the regional and
  local level.
• It means that we should have a clear
  understanding of the overall process, from
  conceptualization, through development,
  implementation, integration, monitoring, up to
  adaptation.

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It happens in Silesia Regional Innovation Strategy
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• August 2003 Regional Parliament accepts the
  Regional Innovation Strategy for the Silesia
  Voivodeship 2003-2013
• June 2004 About 30 pilot projects prepared to
  implement the innovation strategy (first projects
  under Structural Funds start in 2005)
• September 2005 Regional Steering Committee
  accepts the Executive Program 2005-2008 outlining
  concrete actions to take
• May 2007 Regional Steering Committee accepts a
  list of seven DEVELOPMENT AREAS for the future
• July 2007 Increased co-operation in research
  programs, investment programs, clustering
  processes, information exchange, entrepreneurship
  promotion programs

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Silesia Voivodship
112 RD units (universities, public research
centers, private research centers,)
8 000 scientific personnel
200 000 students
4 000 companies with foreign capital
GERD/GDP 0,33
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Economic potentials for cluster development
Research Clusters in the EU-10 new member
countries Silesia taking the lead in following
sectors automotive, processed food, production
technology, sporting, recreation and children
goods. Silesia ranked second in following
sectors products and services for construction,
chemical products, heavy machinery, heavy
construction services, jewelry and precious
metals, medical devices, metal manufacturing
Clusters in the EU-10 new member countries
Christian Ketels, Orjan Solvell Europe Innova
cluster mapping 2006
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Knowledge transfer
Centers of advanced technologies
Centers of excellence
Technology platforms
Intermediaries -agencies, associations -technolog
y incubators, parks

• gt100 RD units
• Universities
• Industrial RD centers
• RD departments

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Knowledge development and value creation
CLUSTERS

• 7 development areas
• ICT
• Biology and medical technologies
• Energy and clean coal technologies
• Environmental protection and land space
  development
• New materials and metallurgy
• Machine industry, automotive and aircraft
  industry
• Transport

PLATFORMS
FORESIGHT
SILESIA NETWORK OF TECHNOLOGY INCUBATORS AND PARKS
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Information exchange platforms
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Innovation culture
Universities sign declaration on promoting
creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation
Promotion of Creativity and Entrepreneurship in
secondary schools Improving entrepreneurship
climate in cities
Conferences and seminars on creating a positive
climate Creative Innovative Region
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LABIOMEN
siec START 2012
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Thank you for your attention

• Luk Palmen