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Title: Regional Innovation Strategies: a new policy approach to regional development


1
  • Regional Innovation Strategies a new policy
    approach to regional development
  • Stratford Upon Avon IRE Conference
  • Mikel Landabaso - DG Regio B3
  • Opening mindsvsopening roads
  • Promoting innovation building on intangibles vs
    traditional regional policies focusing on
    physical infrastructures
  • Subsidiarity in action helping regions help
    themselves
  • From top down dirigisme to leadership in
    partnership with the private sector
  • Setting the foundations of regional innovation
    systems
  • Exploring new policy avenues to translate the
    Lisbon objectives into regional realities

2
  • A consensus-based approach
  • Defining a common vision and sharing a joint
    agenda
  • The real strength of the RIS experience has
    been the fact that it has placed innovation
    firmly on the policy strategy of the key actors
    in the region and created a network of committed
    individuals from both public and private sector
    to drive the innovation agenda forward
    (RIS Western Scotland)
  • 350 enterprises, 12 Universities and RD
    organizations, 10 innovation providers and 10
    chambers, associations, clubs and administrations
    participated in the RIS 25 pilot projects
    launched (RIS Altmark, Harz and Magdeburg)
  • A key lesson regional partnerships for
    innovation are central to regional
    competitiveness but building these partnerships
    demands care, courtesy and patience (RIS
    Shannon)

3
  • Innovation in the Regional Policy Agenda
  • The regional innovation strategy for the Shannon
    region has set a headline for national policy...
    (Irish Minister for Science, technology and
    commerce, RIS Shannon)
  • RIS - an impressive initiative! (UK Secretary
    of State for Trade Industry, RIS Yorkshire and
    the Humber)
  • RTP Castilla y León is a good practice example
    and a benchmark for our regions (Spanish
    Minister for Industry, RTP Castilla y León)
  • ...new generation projects such as the RIS are
    formulating a clear strategy for innovation at
    (the national and) regional levels (Greek
    Minister of National Economy, RIS Central
    Macedonia).

4
  • Identifying SMEs innovation Demand and developing
    an innovation Culture
  • TRIZ -Theory of Innovative Problem Solving pilot
    project in SMEs (RIS Limburg)
  • A first regional attempt to develop an innovation
    culture 6 mentoring pilots to transfer skills
    and techniques in creativity to groups of firms
    (RIS Western Scotland)
  • 100 technology audits in SMEs and 12 specialized
    seminars 25 pilot applications of innovation
    management techniques tested (RIS Thessaly)
  • Innovation culture through seminars and
    publications for businessmen and 3 sectoral
    working groups (RIS Aragon)
  • 300 firms surveyed, 20 technology diagnostics, 27
    transnational tech. transfer audits and 20 ICT
    assesments in the least favoured regional areas
    (RIS Castilla y León)

5
  • Raising Awareness about Innovation
  • Thessaly RIS one week Innovation Fair and 44
    innovation awards to innovative firms
  • Cantabria RIS introductory seminar to innovation
    policies for local journalists
  • Aragon RIS Innovation Press campaign
  • Canarias RIS Innovation radio broadcast
  • Western Scotland RIS Innovation Minimovie
  • Overijseel award to the most innovative starter
    in Twente
  • A Sterea Ellada RIS regional learning
    network 15 thematic working groups and 5
    conferences with over 400 participants

6
RIS EPIRUS Presentation - meetings Innovation
management- continuous action (1999-2000...)

Remote village of Filiates, January, 2000
7
  • Building regional business networks/clusters
  • 15 new business sectoral networks over 80 m of
    related RIS/RIS investments (RIS Yorkshire and
    the Humber)
  • A new network of plastic producers involving 50
    companies and institutions (RIS
    Halle-Leipzig-Dessau)
  • A new cultural heritage cluster based on the
    development of optoelectronics and laser
    technologies (RIS Tuscany)
  • A first Cluster call for proposals in Wallonia 5
    business-led projects with several dozens of
    firms selected (RIS Wallonie)
  • A Wine cluster in development (RIS Central
    Macedonia)
  • Creation of networks for Design Shannon and
    food/natural resources (RIS Shannon)
  • 3 Pilot cluster projects involving 250 SMEs (RIS
    Northern Sweden)
  • Ecotourism network website site and manual (RIS
    Epirus)

8
  • RIS a bottom-up approach
  • businesses in the driving seat
  • RIS Chairman in Shannon businessman innovator
    of the year
  • RIS Wallonie (Promethée) Chairman Head of the
    Business Association
  • RIS sectoral networks in Yorkshire and the
    Humber chaired and led by businessmen
  • 850 companies involved in an innovation demand
    survey and interviews (RIS Algarve- Huelva)
  • Promoting Entrepreneurship
  • Promotor competition for selecting and tutoring
    15 technology results owners (RIS Castilla LM)
  • Developing NTBF diagnosis and incubation support
    model (RIS Canarias)
  • Technology Scouting and spin-off support
    recycling of waste water in olive oil, PVC in
    toys, grape cultivation... (RIS Umbria)

9
  • A demand-led approach improving the efficiency
    of the regional RTDI infrastructure
  • Creation of 5 Competence Centres food, tourism,
    maritime, IT and environment (RIS Weser Ems)
  • Setting RIS Liaison Offices in Universities for
    linking their R1D capabilities to regional firms
    needs (RIS Calabria)
  • Innovation check-up of 12 regional technology
    supply organisations (RIS Galicia)
  • INNORED a new network of innovation support
    organisations in least favoured areas (RIS
    Castilla y León)
  • The Company Monitoring System BEVOS and Toolkit
    to stimulate cooperation between RTDI regional
    organisations (RIS Limburg)

10
  • Making finance for innovation available
  • A feasibility study to create a Seed Capital
    Fund Chambers of Commerce, the Cooperative bank,
    3 private banks and 30 SMEs consulted (RIS West
    Macedonia)
  • The first regional Risk capital fair was
    created in 2000 thanks to a RIS working group
    (RIS Wallonie)
  • Development of a venture capital network
    gathering development agencies, firms and higher
    education institutions (RIS Shannon)
  • An information system that improves efficiency in
    securing appropriate finance using internet (RIS
    Western Scotland)

11
  • Using technology foresight and Innovation
    monitoring
  • 40 key technologies for the next 5 to 10 years
    (RIS Wallonie)
  • Selecting strategic research programmes for the
    future 50 meetings and 1.000 people involved
    (RIS Pais Vasco)
  • Forecast on IT and electronics skills interviews
    46 business experts, tech.institutes and 125
    students (RIS Northern EU)
  • Technology foresight project manager appointed
    (RIS Wales)
  • Identification of the top 15 technologies (RIS
    Limburg)
  • Monitoring results and developing indicators by
    an Innovation Observatory (RIS Central
    Macedonia)
  • FORENSIC and Regional innovation and
    competitiveness Observatory (RIS West Midlands)

12
  • Mainstreaming the RIS in the Structural Funds
  • solving the regional innovation paradox
  • The continuous incorporation of innovative
    actions in the regional planning mechanisms
    during the development of RIS constitutes the
    biggest achievement of the programme in Central
    Macedonia (RIS Central Macedonia)
  • RIS a powerful tool to influence the use of
    Structural Funds managed by the program executive
    of the SFs in Western Scotland (RIS Western
    Scotland)
  • A doubling of regional public expenditure in RTD
    related programs following the RTP (RTP/RIS
    Castilla y León)

13
Mainstreaming the RIS
14
  • Tentative RIS lessons for future regional
    innovation policy
  • The importance of a Regional approach
  • The critical role of Champions
  • Focusing on the process
  • Making (real) partnerships work a bottom- up
    approach
  • Constructing policies on a demand-led approach
    understanding SMEs needs
  • Dealing with innovation a multidisciplinary
    perspective
  • Inter-regional learning the European dimension
  • Mainstreaming
  • Translating theory into practice through
    flagship projects
  • Involving and committing those responsible for
    SFs from the start shifting the strategic
    orientation of regional policy

15
  • Tentative RIS lessons for future regional
    innovation policy
  • Promoting innovation is key to regional policy
    efforts and competitiveness in the knowledge
    economy
  • It requires new policy instruments and policy
    delivery systems, including active and committed
    public-private partnerships
  • Regional innovation promotion is a long process
    which requires stable political commitment and
    deep pockets
  • Regional Innovation Strategies are a step in the
    right direction on which to build on
  • Human capital building is of paramount importance
    for any innovation effort to succeed in the long
    term
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