Effective Regional Innovation System Steering

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Effective Regional Innovation System Steering

• Malgorzata Piotrowicz
• Poznan Science Technology Park

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Analysis of key elements (1)

• Clearly articulated strategy communicated to the
  whole region
• Strategic objectives defined following the
  analysis and consultative process should be
  formulated in a consistent way to the public
• universities, RD centres
• intermediary institutions
• local authorities
• Companies
• Leadership
• regional and local innovation leaders
• public and private
• institutions and individuals
• strong innovation awareness
• ability to mobilise local/regional groups of
  people for the innovative undertakings

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Analysis of key elements (2)

• Leadership should be more independent
• different autonomy of regions in different
  countries
• Stability in planning
• long-term objectives and core directions should
  remain unchanged unless the circumstances change
  drastically
• stability builds trust and stimulates involvement
  of regional innovation actors
• Well known first mover to be innovative ? to
  make money
• Methodology for measuring start point and
  subsequent impact
• monitoring and benchmarking effectiveness and
  efficiency of regional RTDI policy
• measuring the impact of strategic objectives on
  the economical performance of the region

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Linkages GIII-GI

• Within Interactions
• clearly articulated strategy communicated to the
  whole region is in line with proximity to the
  client
• leadership is linked with networking (ability to
  collaborate on different levels of empowerment)
  and relationship of the leaders with other actors
  and society and openness of the authority to the
  system
• leadership should be independent in respect of
  public authorities and RDAs role in the system
  (to which extend leaders should be (in)dependent
  and on which level local, regional, national,
  EU, international)
• Within Openness
• stability in planning versus practically all key
  elements identified within openness (how to
  balance the stability of RTDI with policy
  openness to include new issues and objectives
  within strategy)

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Linkages GIII-GII

• Within Activities
• leadership and university/business based
  innovation champions
• Within Need orientation
• measuring the starting point and subsequent
  impact of the strategy basing on regional
  performance in all key elements identified within
  need orientation

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Case studies - recommendations

• RIS Monitoring and Evaluation
• Regional Innovation Council
• Acting in informal partnership with regional
  authority helps in solving procedural issues
• Necessity to formalise the advisory assistance in
  terms of RTDI policy
• Crucial day-to-day contacts with mid-level
  (operational) officers within the regional
  authority structures and lobbing towards
  high-level ones

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Practical issues (1)

• Restrictive procedure of the Act on public
  procurement (the requirements of Polish
  legislation are much more strict than the EU
  legislation) which results in limited flexibility
  in spending
• Complex administrative requirements causing
  relatively non-proportional involvement of
  man-hours for financial and administrative issues
• Delays in availability of statistical data (it is
  impossible to analyse statistics and field
  research outcomes in the same time since they
  reflect different state)
• Lack of coordination of monitoring schemes in RIS
  regions and others even in Poland itself, not
  talking about EU level (impossible benchmarking)

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Practical issues (2)

• Making the innovation and strategic objectives of
  the regional RTDI policy appealing to each group
  of stakeholders (mostly to the companies)
• Adjusting the communication channels and the
  language to the target groups specificity
  (marketing of the innovation policy)
• Showing the linkages between strategic objectives
  of RTDI and other governance fields (education,
  entrepreneurship, internationalisation)

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Thank you for your attention!

• Malgorzata Piotrowicz
• Poznan Science Technology Park
• mp_at_ppnt.poznan.pl
• www.ppnt.poznan.pl