Regional Innovation Strategies RIS

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Regional Innovation StrategiesRIS
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About Regional Innovation Strategies

• The RIS projects aimed to support regions to
  develop regional innovation strategies that would
  enhance regional innovation and competitiveness
  through optimising innovation policies and
  infrastructure.
• 32 regions have been supported to formulate
  regional innovation strategies with RIS projects.
  
• It is based on a common methodology based on
  three main elements
• consensus-building among key actors
• analysis of the regional innovation system
• development of strategic frameworks on innovation
  support

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Today competitive trends
Global Markets
The threats
Increasing competitive pressures
Competitive Advantage
The way to compete
Knowledge
Public sector
The key actors
Strengthen
Promote
Firms
RD institutions
Foster
Society
The instrument
Regional Innovation Strategy
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Performance framework of RIS

• SMEs play a key role in developing and
  implementing the strategy
• It means a significant mobilization and
  utilization of regional endogenous resources
• Priorities and actions defined within a long term
  framework
• High level of consensus requires during the whole
  process
• Bottom up process ensuring the participation of
  all regional key
• Actors
• Public Authorities as promoting agents

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RIS designing process
Global trends
Consensus
Contrast
Analysis
Debate
Regional Innovation Strategy
Interaction
Regional industry
Regional RDi system
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RIS as mechanism for regional development (I)

• Globalization VS Regionalization. Enterprises
  gain competitive advantage taking the most of
  their closest resources.
• A mixture of close competition with collaboration
  generate an environment where firms can growth
  being able to compete in global markets.
• This performance of the industrial tissue
  requires an strong innovation system with fluent
  relations among its members (triple helix)
• RIS encourages the formation of networks, thin
  relationships between the public sector, the
  research community and the business tissue.

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RIS as mechanism for regional development (II)

• The clarity of the objectives defined, the long
  term scope and the consensus among participants
  ensure a sustainable growth model based on
  knowledge.

• So, a Regional Innovation Strategy is the first
  step in order to turn a region in a learning
  region able to compete in today global economy.

• Regional Innovation Strategies are powerful
  instruments to develop regional economic systems
  and the best model to ensure a sustainable
  competitive growth.

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RIS as mechanism for regional development (III)
General Objective
Measures/ Actions
Common Targets
Scope

• Fostering innovation
• Focusing on critic technology sectors
• Development of technology offer

RDi support to business tissue
Strengthening the regional innovation system

• Knowledge transfer
• Clusters
• Technology platforms
• Networks

Strong and competitive productive system
Promotion of collaboration and networks formation
RIS
Sustainable competitive growth

• Medium long term
• Consensus
• Wide scope
• Clear identification of need and opportunities

A clear path for development
Defining objectives and actions to compete
internationally

• Change of mind
• Entrepreneurship
• Innovation culture

Continuous improvement
Spreading innovation culture across the entire
region
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Foreseen results of RIS

• Identification of key sector and technologies in
  the region
• Positioning the region within the global
  competitive trend
• Establishment of medium and long term objective
  within a strategic framework
• Definition of a sufficient range of actions to
  reach the objectives defined
• Development of mechanisms to follow-up and
  evaluate the accomplishment of the Strategy

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Foreseen results of RIS

• Consensus about the path followed to gain the
  regional competitive advantage
• Strengthening of regional technology offer
• Development of a working method based on
  collaboration and networking relations
• Improved capacity of regional firms to assimilate
  research results through collaboration with
  research agents
• Fist attempt to introduce innovation culture
  and innovation awareness not only among
  regional system but society itself.

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Foreseen results of RIS

• Level and quality of innovation raised. Levels of
  RD expenditures and personnel employed grew.
• Enterprises more involved in regional innovation
  system.
• Disparities with more developed regions both in
  RDi and economic and competitive terms reduced.
• A widen perception by economic agents that
  measures implemented within RIS framework
  contribute to improve the regional situation