Set up by Government to promote sustainable economic development in England'

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Englands Regional Development Agencies

• Set up by Government to promote
  sustainableeconomic development in England.
• A regional approach to economic development
  allows businesses and communities to formulate
  solutions that are appropriate for the particular
  circumstances and strengths of each region.

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Yorkshire ForwardRegional Development Agency for
the Yorkshire Humber Region

• Some facts
• Budget 500m
• Population 5.5m
• Diverse urban and rural wealthy and not so
  wealthy areas
• Sub-regional Economic Boards SY (formerly O1
  region) - SRIPs
• 10 universities
• 6 Public Sector Research Establishments/RTOs
• 2nd largest finance centre in UK Leeds
• Businesses traditionally manufacturing, gt98
  SMEs
• Cluster policy

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Current Innovation System

• 20 strong innovation team in the RDA
• Yorkshire Universities Association
• Regional CBI, IoD, CoC, Business Link
• BUT
• Established an innovation advisory body in
  early 2005
• No well defined Regional Innovation SYSTEM
  YET!!!

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Brief History

• Science and Innovation Council agreed at Jan 2004
  YF Board meeting
• Yorkshire Science established Jan 2005
• First meeting of YS June 2005
• Science and Innovation fingerprint published Sept
  2005
• Draft consultation strategy document published
  Aug 2006 one month consultation period
• Special meeting of YS on 3rd Oct 2006 to consider
  consultation comments
• Presentation to YF Board of re-drafted RIS Nov
  2006
• RIS endorsed by YF Board and YS asked to
  construct implementation/delivery plan by March
  2007
• Establish an Innovation Agency in Q2 2007 to
  implement and deliver the strategy

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What is the RIS?

• A sub-strategy for the RES focussing on
  INNOVATION (Objective 2 of the RES)
• Provides detail for implementation and delivery
  of the four main themes
• Growing the regions innovation culture
• Developing a region-wide environment for
  innovation
• Targeting European engagement
• Pan-northern region activity
• Regional coherence and focus for a key driver for
  sustainable economic growth

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• Where are we now? A statement of the
  socio-economic position and innovation
  performance of the region.
• Simple we are a low innovation performer.

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Where do we want to be?The VISION
The aim is to form strong collaborative networks
to be underpinned by a critical mass of
innovative, globally competitive companies, and
world-class, internationally renowned academic
communities.
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What are we going to do?The GOALS

• To create a culture for open innovation.
• To promote innovation and stimulate enterprise.
• To become a region of innovation good practice
  in the UK, across Europe, and internationally.
• To attract and retain people of the highest
  calibre to work in our universities, businesses
  and public authorities.
• To create a region where the knowledge base,
  businesses and the political community work in
  enhanced harmony to deliver sustainable economic
  growth through innovation.
• To make social inclusion and environmental impact
  a priority.

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How are we going to do it?The STRATEGY
New idea
Inspire

Create
Define capabilities
Capability gap analysis
Design
Knowledge pool
Prior knowledge applied knowledge pool
Applied knowledge pool


Coalescence of K and applied K
Exploit
Opportunity
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New product, process, organisational change,
marketing method

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Growing the regions innovation culture

• Encourage open innovation strong networks of
  business and academic communities and
  supply/value chains.
• Identify businesses with the capacity and/or
  propensity to innovate through analysis and BD4B
  single regional Gateway.
• Businesses allocated an innovation advisor from
  YF approved cadre of relevant experts.
• Establish a Yorkshire Global Business Network
  (YGBN).

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Developing a region-wide innovation environment

• Need to grow culture and develop environment
  simultaneously.
• Innovation hubs
• Close to centres of innovation activity eg. HEIs,
  hospitals, large cos, clusters
• Theme-specific and recognised world class in
  knowledge excellence or business
  competitiveness
• Embedded incubation centres
• Innovation advisers part of the infrastructure
• Connected innovation satellites enhance
  critical mass of the hubs

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Contd

• Innovation parks
• Feed from innovation hubs and satellites
• Bring together scientific excellence and
  innovative companies
• Form competitive but collaborative clusters in
  strong networks
• Act as magnets for global inward investment

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Targeted European engagement

• 55bn (2007-13) Collab RD, Fundamental RD,
  Mobility, SME research capacity (Framework
  Programme)
• 1998 to 2005 YHs ranking 0.85 to 0.71 based on
  no. of projects
• 3.6bn (2007-13) Entrepreneurship and
  Innovation, ICT Policy support, Intelligent
  Energy-Europe (Competitiveness and Innovation
  Programme CIP)
• Includes funding for the regional BIAS (ex. IRC
  EIC)
• 525m (248m for SY) Structural Funds (2007-13)
• Use to lever other funds private, universities,
  debt finance (EIB) to address Lisbon priorities
• Strategic partnering
• EU networks for good practice exchange (E-Rain,
  ERRIN, IRE) and regional organisations with
  others (eg. CICs and Fraunhofer Institutes)

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Pan Northern regional activity

• Horizon scanning
• To create a compelling future vision for
  sustainable economic growth through enhanced
  innovation in the next 5 to 25 years in the
  northern regions
• To develop effective strategies for achieving
  this future vision
• To evaluate these strategies and
• To determine activities which the three northern
  regions can effect now.
• Cross-regional innovation activity
• Connecting hubs of innovation activity
• More effective European engagement

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Measuring the impact

• Combination of semi-quantitative and
  quantitative
• Semi-quantitative questions in CBI/YF survey
  relating to use of new ideas look at change in
  mind-set (short term and long term)
• Quantitative use of 10 output parameters in the
  European Innovation Scoreboard look at impact
  of the strategy (long term)

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• Thank you!!
• Trevor.gregory_at_yorkshire-forward.com
• 44 113 3949994
• 44 7813 925872