Regional innovation policy impact assessment and benchmarking Project coordinators meeting

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Regional innovation policy impact assessment and
benchmarkingProject coordinators meeting

• What objectives policy makers may have while
  engaging into regional innovation policy impact
  assessment and benchmarking?
• presentation of wide spectrum of potential
  agendas
• Elzbieta Ksiazek and Laura Cascone,
• IRE Secretariat
• Wednesday, 23 May 200
• Lynch West County Hotel and Conference Centre
  Ennis,
• Ireland

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Why this presentation?

• Synthesis paper is to promote impact assessment
  and benchmarking to policy makers
• Different methodologies and approaches should
  serve different policy objectives
• Objective for the discussion
• To define the link between policy objectives and
  methodology choices

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Why impact assessment is interesting for policy
makers?

• a number of basic analytical questions
• what should be the objectives pursued by the
  regional policy?
• What are the main policy options for reaching
  these objectives?
• What are the likely economic, social and
  environmental impacts of those options?
• How could future monitoring and evaluation be
  organized?

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Policy objectives innovation system related
Wealth Jobs Quality of life
Ultimate objectives
Intermediate goal
Competitiveness
Strengthening regional innovation system, flows
within and innovation outputs
Strategic objectives
promote innovation in SMEs, clusters collaboratio
n, financing instruments , knowledge based
entrepreneurship, infrastructure, links between
academia and industry
Action lines
Science parks, innovation agencies, innovation
agents, seed capital
Measures
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Another approach
MLP Blueprint for regional innovation
benchmarking
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Another typology
MLP Blueprint for regional innovation
benchmarking
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What can be the objectives for impact assessment
and benchmarking

• To promote achievements
• To justify the policies
• To make the policies better/more successful
• To assess relevance of policy objectives and
  targets
• To measure the output of policies (efficiency,
  comparison with the targets)
• To find out what makes the policy successful
  (factors)
• To strengthen policy making capacity

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Benefits of the regional impact assessment and
benchmarking

• Rethink and reorganise the different regional
  strategies
• To elaborate new ideas and different policies and
  propose these to decision makers
• Define future policy guidelines
• Provide a mechanism for permanent policy
  reorientation and focus, therefore providing
  optimum allocation of public resources
• Assess and adjust the ongoing methodology and
  tools used for different policies
• To exchange and share experiences

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Your contribution.

• We need your experience to understand
• How to interact with policy makers in order to
  make them sensitive to the issue?
• How to present different methodologies in the
  link with policy objectives?

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Question

• Which objectives shaped your methodology choices?