New or better support mechanisms: emerging trends and delivery mechanisms INNOLearning Platform Wars

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New or better support mechanisms emerging
trends and delivery mechanismsINNO-Learning
Platform Warsaw 23rd April.2008
Prof. Lena TsipouriThomas LiljemarkFrancesca
GIANNOTTI
University of Athens - Center of Financial Studies
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Outline

• The target
• The methodology (as yet)
• Basic criteria developed
• Evidence from the PRO INNO TC database and
  complementary evidence
• The list of (families of) measures to be
  considered
• Mechanisms in concrete cases (example of the
  Innovation Vouchers)
• The way forward..

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1. The target create aninformed/shared intuition

• Gather all possible intelligence,
• which can lead to the creation of an intuition,
• a good enough knowledge
• of what is more appropriate and
• how this operates context-specifically.

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2. The methodology

• Review of academic and policy studies to create
  filtering criteria to select measures of
  interest from the database
• Reviewing measures of top performing countries
  (likely to be good) introduced between 2004-2008
  (likely to respond to new challenges)
• List of measures to be discussed,
  scrutinised/supported with practically responses
  from policy makers
• Discussion of the emerging trends

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2. The methodology some questions

• What is new?
• Where is the borderline between new and
  improved?
• What is new for whom?
• How do we package?
• How much do we treat?

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3. Methodology lay out
Academic studies
The TC database
Policy reviews
The intersection of what complies
with theoretical criteria, tends to become
generally recognised and is new
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3. Basic criteria developedfrom the academic
literature

• Criterion 1 Measures leading to synergies in a
  form of clustering or otherwise
• Criterion 2 Measures address new actors, types
  of innovation, activities
• Criterion 3 Measures leading to management
  triggering better response from industry

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3. Criteria and indications of specific
applications a first result from policy studies
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4. Using the TC database measures

• Who are the top performing countries
• What did they do after 2004

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4. Evidence from the PRO INNO TC database New
measures in the top performing countries
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4. Evidence from the TC database, top performing
countries Interesting new measures
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5.The list of (families of) measures to be
considered

• Innovation Vouchers
• NL 47 Innovation Vouchers
• User-driven innovation
• DK 35 Programme for User-driven innovation,
• FR 61 Facilitated access of innovative SMEs to
  public procurements in the field of defence,
• FR 63 SME Pact,
• NL 49 Valorisation Grants,
• NL 50 SBIR Pilot,
• NO 2 User driven Research based Innovation,
• CH 10 Innovation for Successful Ageing
• UK 73 Innovation Platforms.
• New actors, activities, approaches
• DK 33 Gazelle Growth program,
• SE 32 National Industrial Sector Programmes
• FR 65 Mobilising programmes for industrial
  innovation (PMII)
• FR 66 Gazelles Programme,
• NL 53 Smart Mix,
• DE 80 Top Cluster Competition,
• IT 44 Technological Districts,

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6. Mechanisms in concrete casesTreating
Innovation Vouchers

• Schemes in the Netherlands, Ireland, Benelux
  Middle Area (5 regions from the Netherlands and
  Belgium), Hungary, West Midlands, Calabria,
  Piedmont and Lombardy regions (IT), Limburg
  region (NL)
• Geographical coverage national/regional
• Allocation mechanism lottery or conditioned to
  approval
• Size 2,500 to 100,000 (trend is towards
  increasing)
• Activities funded any knowledge question
  concerning innovation
• Beneficiaries SMEs, only small enterprises, only
  spin-off and start-up.
• Knowledge providers public RTOs and HEIs
  sometimes private non- profit research
  organisations or consultancies, sometime
  transnational

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6. Innovation Vouchers (II)

• Success factors
• Not much bureaucracy
• Almost all enterprises declared to be satisfied
  or very satisfied in evaluated schemes
• A pre-condition for the innovation voucher to
  work successfully is its customised approach..

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7. The way forwardthe emerging informed
intuition , (an example)

• Since the adoption of the innovation voucher is
  very recent, and most schemes have not been
  evaluated yet, it is not possible to assess the
  long-term effects of it. However, there are
  already positive signals about its innovation
  potential. Size should not be too high,
  geographical and activity coverage expected to be
  broad.
• Demand-led innovation a major trend,
  difficulties of application and risk sharing,
  higher experience with SBIR/STTR, new efforts for
  technology procurement, difficulties for
  intervention for other purposes (catalytic
  procurement)
• Clusters become bigger, more targeted, more
  precision in the support mechanisms

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7. The way forward next steps

• Validate the informed intuition approach
• Select a set of measures (How Coordination with
  other mini studies? Clients wish list? Other?)
• More consultation of documents/policy makers
  inputs
• Final document same methodology, more input,
  concrete treatment of three types of instruments.