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 Europe 2020 Strategy and Innovation Union
Initiative

• Mr. Javier Menendez Bonilla, EU Delegation in
  Turkey
• Workshop on Europe 2020 and Innovation Union
• Ankara, Turkey
• 12-13th March 2013

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EUROPE 2020 - 5 head targets
EMPLOYMENT 75 of the population aged 20-64
should be employed R INNOVATION 3 of the
EU's GDP should be invested in RD A
reduction of CO2 emissions by 20 CLIMATE /
ENERGY A share of renewable energies up to
20 An increase in energy efficiency by
20 EDUCATION The share of early school
leavers should be under 10 At least 40 of
the younger generation should have a degree or
diploma POVERTY 20 million fewer people should
be at risk of poverty
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The 7 Flagship Initiatives
Smart Growth Sustainable Growth Inclusive Growth
Innovation  Innovation Union  Climate, energy and mobility  Resource efficient Europe  Employment and skills  An agenda for new skills and jobs
Education  Youth on the move  Competitiveness  An industrial policy for the globalisation era  Fighting poverty  European platform against poverty 
Digital society  A digital agenda for Europe  Competitiveness  An industrial policy for the globalisation era  Fighting poverty  European platform against poverty 
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Why Innovation Union?

• Europe 2020 Strategy for Growth and Jobs
• Correlation between RI performance and
  Competitiveness
• Europe is facing an Innovation Emergency
• Answer increasing EU's innovation performance
• Increased efforts on RI also needed to achieve
  objectives in other EU policies and targets

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Innovation a way out of crisis?
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EU MS innovation performance 2011
The composite indicator builds on data for 24
indicators ranging between 0 and 1
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What do EU innovation leaders share?

• They
• perform very well in Business RD expenditure
• perform well in other indicators related to
  business activities
• have higher scores in Public-private
  co-publications per million inhabitants(good
  linkages between science and enterprises)
• excel in the commercialisation of their
  technological knowledge (i.e. indicator License
  and patent revenues from abroad).
• have a balanced national research and
  innovation system (small variance in performance
  across all innovation dimensions)

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Innovation performance international comparison
growth
Innovation performance lead/gap vis-à-vis the EU
(as of EU performance)
Average annual innovation performance growth
lead/gap vis-à-vis the EU (in )
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Innovation Union and Turkey

• Innovation Union Scoreboard 2011 Turkey is a
  modest innovator
• Level of RTD investment 0,87 (of 2011 GDP )
  stagnation since 2009
• But, share of private expenditure increased
• Dynamic Human capital building but need to
  balance quantity/quality and post graduates

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On line information and monitoring
The Innovation Union Information and Intelligence
System
http//i3s.ec.europa.eu/
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Innovation Union at a glance
1. Training researchers
5. European Research infrastructures
2. University ranking system
3. Developing new curricula
7. Involvement of SMEs in RI
6. Programmes focusing on EU2020
4. ERA Framework
8. Forum on Forward Looking Activities
12. Cross-border matching of innovative firms
9. EIT to expand its activities
11. Free Venture Capital funds
14. EU Patent
13. Review of State aid RDI
10. New financial instruments for private finance
19. European Design Board
17. Pre-commercial and public procurements
18. Eco-innovation action plan
20. Open access
21. Knowledge transfer
16. Modernise standard-setting
15. Screening of key regulatory frameworks
27. Research programmes on public sector and
social innovation
24. Smart Specialisation
28. Partners consultation on knowledge economy
25. Focus on Innovation in the next Structural
Funds
26. European Social innovation pilot
22. European market for patents and licensing
23. Safeguard of IPRs
34. New indicator for fast-growing companies and
monitoring
31. Scientific cooperation with third countries
32. International agreements on research
infrastructures
33. MS to carry out self assessments
29. European Innovation Partnerships
30. Policies for researchers to reside in Europe
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Innovation Union and Turkey'Concentrate
efforts'

• Design a long term Strategy on Research and
  Innovation and assess on regular basis taking
  into account the EU indicators (commitment 31)
• Ring-fence public budget for education, research
  and innovation national budget and other
  instruments (IPA) (Commitment 24)
• Promote excellence and skills development
  quality/excellence of research performance
  (commitment 1)
• Increase public research base and funding open
  and competitive to facilitate integration in ERA
  and enhance international cooperation (commitment
  4)

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The European Semester

• November 2012
• 3rd Annual Growth Survey priorities "pursuing
  differentiated, growth-friendly fiscal
  consolidation".
• Fiscal consolidation must preserve sources of
  future growth
• Education
• RD
• Innovation
• Smart research infrastructure
• gtthrough growth-friendly Stability and
  Convergence Programmes

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Where we are the State of Innovation Union
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IU main achievements /1

• Changing innovation landscape in Europe
• 9 proposals tabled including 6 legislative
• ERA communication (4)
• Horizon 2020 (6)
• EIT Strategic Innovation Agenda (9)
• Venture capital passport (11)
• Unitary patent (14)
• Standards (16)
• Public procurement (17)
• Eco-innovation Action Plan (18)

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IU main achievements /2

• Experimenting and testing new ideas
• 6 pilot initiatives launched
• Knowledge Alliances (2)
• University ranking (2)
• Regulatory screening (15)
• Support mechanism for procurement of innovative
  products and services (17)
• European Social Innovation pilot (26)
• European Public Sector Innovation Scoreboard
  (27)

• Working in Partnership
• 5 novel platforms and fora
• European Forum on Forward Looking Activities (8)
• European Creative Industries Alliance (19)
• European Design Leadership Board (19)
• Smart Specialisation Platform (24)
• European Innovation Partnerships (29)

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Innovation Union and Turkey'Focus on innovation
Performance'

• Improve links Academia-Industry
• How
• - Transfer of Technology Institutes
• - Create awareness on importance IPR
• - Create and develop Science Parks
• - Training of Research managers
• Important also to follow work at EU level attend
  meetings in Brussels on Research Infrastructure
  W/G IPR European Research Committee (ERAC)
  Human Resources Group.

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What's next?
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Towards Horizon 2020

• 2007
• - 2013

• 2014
• - 2020

Innovation Union

• .
• RD
• 7FP

• Innovation
• CIP

• RDI
• HORIZON
• 2020

The European Institute for Innovation and
Technology

• 80 MLN in 2011 constant prices

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The budget proposal
Horizon 2020 budget breakdown

• excluding 1665 million in MFF proposals for
  EURATOM

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The proposed budget for the 3 blocks
Excellent Science
Industrial Leadership
Societal challenges
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Horizon 2020 and Innovation

• Increased support to innovative processes
  (testing, piloting, demonstration)
• Support to innovation market demand
• standard
• public procurement,
• inducement prizes
• bottom-up activities (more flexible call for
  proposals)
• A new SME instrument (on Leadership in enabling
  and industrial technologies e Societal
  challenges
• More extensive use of financial instruments with
  leverage effect

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Horizon 2020 and Turkey

• Participation in FP7 keeps increasing (/-17,5
  success rate)
• Well performing in Agri-food theme, ICT,
  nanotechnology, participation of SME's
• Much appreciated participant in FP7 goof
  knowledge of framework programme active
  international partner
• Good performance in Marie Curie Actions
• Modest participation in Programme Ideas should
  increase efforts on scientific excelence

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Horizon 2020 and Turkey/2

• Turkey eligible to become associated (Article 7)
• Conditions (financial contribution) to be
  specified
• Important to prepare for Horizon 2020
• - concentrate research on global challenges
• - Scientific excellence
• - Innovation/ SMEs
• Use Pre-accession Instrument (IPA II) for RI
  capacity building start planning now
• Apply Smart Spezialisation Strategy

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Next steps

• Adoption of the State of Innovation Union Report
  2012
• New Headline indicator on fast growing companies
• Input for preparation of the Smart Specialisation
  Strategy (2013)
• Completion of Innovation Union measures by 2014
• Preparatory work for Mid-term review Innovation
  Union 2015

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Innovation Union - ERA Horizon 2020
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