Cohesion policy: Sharing Innovation and knowledge with regions

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Cohesion policy Sharing Innovation and knowledge
with regions
ForTransRIS Project Brussels, 18th March 2009
Luisa Sanches Policy Analyst EC/REGIO.
D2/thematic coordination and innovation
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What is innovation?

• Components
• Product innovation,
• Technological innovation
• Organizational innovation
• Innovation happens in the market
• Policy-mixes should create
• Processes to facilitate the creation and
  marketing of new innovative products and services

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The Caldron for innovation

• Integrated and innovative regional development
  strategies
• Increased exchange of good practices among
  regions with different levels of development

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The actors of innovation
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Lisbon Agenda

• The central importance of innovation in the
  performance of the European economy was
  recognised since its launching in 2000
• But the lack of ownership, commitment and
  investment in Member States and regions impaired
  its implementation
• From 2005 onwards the Lisbon National Reform
  Plans were linked to the Cohesion Policy
  programmes for 2007-2013

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With the new Cohesion Policy resources shifted to
implement Lisbon

• EUR 250 billion (70) for the period 2007-2013
  to be toped by national funds

RD and innovation infrastructures of European
importance industrial competitiveness
renewable energies, energy efficiency, and human
resources
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Role of Cohesion Policy in the current financial
crises

• 347 billion euro for the 2007-2013 period
  investing in the real economy
• Important role in restoring confidence by
  supporting priority infrastructure, business
  capacity and human potential advancing payments
• Comm (2008) 876 of 16.12.2008

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Accelerate implementation by maximising existing
tools

• Increasing the capacity of JASPERS ("Joint
  Assistance in Supporting Projects in European
  Regions) to improve the quality of major
  projects applications.
• Promoting entrepreneurship (JEREMIE Joint
  European Resources for Micro to Medium
  Enterprises", micro-credits - JASMINE)
• Enhancing co-operation with the EIB and EIF
• Maintain strategic objectives while adapting
  programme delivery to focus more on areas with
  growth potential
• Simplifying the delivery mechanism use
  flexibility in the programmes (i.e. modulate EU
  co-financing)
• Reiterating the priority to invest in innovation
• Devote a greater share to energy efficiency
  (housing)

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Regional Innovation Performance
Regional Innovation Scoreboard 2006
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Cohesion policy

• Facilitates the systems of regional and
  multi-level governance
• Facilitates the design and delivery of integrated
  innovative regional development strategies
• Concentrates finances on the poorer regions EU
  support gt own resources
• Increases exchange of good practices among
  regions

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Cohesion policy Innovation up to 25

• 2000-2006
• 25 502 million (11)
• Staff Working Document SEC(2007)1547
• Regions Delivering Innovation through Cohesion
  Policy

• 2007-2013
• 86 billion (25)
• of which
• Convergence
• 62 billion (22)
• Emp Compet
• 22 billion (40)
• Territorial Coop
• 2 billion (27)

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How?

• RTDI
• Supporting the creation of regional and
  trans-regional clusters
• Development of science parks, incubators, etc
• Supporting RTD activities, investment and
  technology transfer in SMEs
• Promotion of environmentally-friendly products
  and processes in SMEs eco-innovation
• RDT infrastructure and researchers

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How?

• Entrepreneurship to support self-employment and
  business start-up and advanced support services
  for businesses/ JEREMIE
• Innovative ICT services to businesses and
  citizens, such as e-government, e-health, etc.

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How?

• Human resources
• development of skills and mechanisms related to
  innovation capacity of staff at work
• training and services for employees to step up
  their adaptability to change
• design and dissemination of innovative and more
  productive ways of organising work

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2007-2013 Increased synergies

• Heading 1 of the EU budget focus on growth and
  jobs
• The 7th FP
• The Competitiveness and Innovation framework
  Programme (CIP)
• The Operational Programmes of Cohesion Policy,
  etc.
• EU State Aids for Research and Development and
  Innovation, published on December 2006

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50 billion Multi-country research projects
joint actions (JTI, 169) Scholarships Policy
coordination Capacity building
3.6 billion Multi-country Innovation networks
Cluster, Monitoring Support services Policy
development Financial instruments
6.2 billion Erasmus Univ.EducScholarships
e-learning Programme ICT in schools Leonardo
vocational training
Practical Guide to EU Funding opportunities for
RI http//cordis.europa.eu/eu-funding-guide/home
_en.html
2.1 billion Environment policy monitoring
development Projects on Air, Energy, Climate,
Industry, Urban env., Soil, Waste, Water
Rural Development Argi-business
modernisation Struct. change
Fisheries Aquaculture
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Cluster policy

• Cluster communication towards world-class
  clusters in the EU Implementing the broad-based
  innovation strategy
• though clusters must be market born and driven,
  the Commission's sees a need for new concerted
  policy actions between the Commission, Member
  States and regions.

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Towards the 3rd generation of innovation policy

• An innovation eco-system
• sectoral integration
• consultation and involvment of actors
• user-driven
• prioximity matters
• designing policy mixes
• http//www.policymix.eu/PolicyMixTool/
• http//www.eis.eu/

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Regions for Economic Change Initiative

• Regions of several countries and very diverse
  levels of development working together to produce
  action plans
• From ideas to growth and jobs
• Conferences and Regio stars

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12 Networks many regions
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CLOE a pilot project of RFEC
CLOE a pilot project of RFEC

• From a cluster management guide to the
  implementation of regional clusters and
  intercluster contact for businesses and to an
  action plan for each region
• Good and bad practices were used to learn quicker
  through working visits and peer review of
  deliverables
• From partners discussing ideas to the involvement
  of managing authorities and other stakeholders in
  regions
• Improving OPs and looking at other opportunities

http//www.clusterforum.org/
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ERIK-ACTION

• 11 regions .Born from 4 years of networking
  experience within the ERIK network.
• Aims to improve the effectiveness of regional
  development policies on innovation and the
  knowledge economy and, specifically, in upgrading
  the innovation capacity of existing enterprises.
• Will produce an action plan for each region
  including financial data
• These transfer actions plans will improve and can
  be financed through the Regional OPs

• http//www.eriknetwork.net/erikaction/index.html

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RAPIDE

• Regional Action Plans for Innovation Development
  and Enterprise 13 regions
• Aims to implement good practice relating to the
  role of the public sector in stimulating
  innovation, in particular helping businesses
  (primarily SMEs) to bring innovative products and
  services to market more quickly
• Managing risk, financing innovation and effective
  partnerships are the three topics
• 13 Action Plans will be produced to steer the
  mainstream Programme investment

http//www.rapidenetwork.eu/
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Regions for Economic Change Initiative
http//ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/cooperation/in
terregional/ecochange/index_en.cfm
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