EUROPEAN OPEN AND COLLABORATIVE REGIONAL

INNOVATION STRATEGIES

EURIS

Real, close and varied Open Innovation Experiences.

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Rafael Muguerza Eraso

Innovation and Knowledge Transfer Service

Navarra Government

EURIS Lead Partner

• Acronym: EURIS

• Title: European Collaborative and Regional Open Innovation Strategies

• Programme: INTERREG IV C Programme

1. EURIS PROGRAMME

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• Website: www.euris-programme.eu

• Duration: January 2010 – December 2013

• 5 EU regions: Navarra, Stuttgart, Eindhoven, West-Pannon and Lodz.

• 6 sub-projects in implementation.

1. EURIS PROGRAMME

• ¿Which are EURIS goals?:

• To raise the awareness of companies, knowledge centers and Universities

on the Open Innovation concept, as well as to provide case studies,

resources and tools facilitating the embracement of Open Innovation.1

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• To improve regional framework conditions and to open up innovation

ecosystems in order to foster further interaction and collaboration

between Triple Helix agents at partners’ regions. 2

• To transfer to partners’ Regional innovation Strategies the best practices,

new models and recommendations issued from the programme, as well as

to deliver general policy recommendations for other regions interested on

the opening up of their innovation ecosystems.

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1. EURIS PROGRAMME

• ¿Who is involved on the project?

5 EURIS

Partners

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ParticipantsEURIS

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Partners Participants

1. EURIS PROGRAMME

• ¿Which is our approach?

• Exchange of Best Practices in 5 policy areas positively

influencing Open Innovation environments: Networking &

Collaboration, Human Capital & Entrepreneurship, Access

to Finance, IP & Technology Markets, and Knowledge,

Science & Technology base.

KNOWLEDGE

EXCHANGE

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• Joint development of sub-projects for the exchange of

best practices or the development of new policies, models

and approaches contributing to more open and

collaborative environments.

COOPERATION

• On going strategic thinking process by EURIS partners, sub-

project participants and stakeholders, on which lessons

learnt, learning, and policy recommendations can be

extracted from the process in order to improve partners’

RIS and EU Innovation Governance.

STRATEGIC THINKING

1. EURIS PROGRAMME

• ¿What are we doing?

– KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE:

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Regional

Reports with

Open

Innovation

related

Indicators

Matrixes.

Regional

Stakeholders

Survey on

Open

Innovation

practices and

performance

Inventory of

35 Best

Practices

contributing

to Open

Innovation

environments.

Best Practices

Field Visits to

5 regions

1. EURIS PROGRAMME

• ¿What are we doing?

– COOPERATION: 6 Sub-projects:

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1. EURIS PROGRAMME

• ¿What are we doing?

– COOPERATION: 6 Sub-projects in different fields:

• Improvement of information processing flows and methods between

networked bodies/ecosystems for fostering OI practices and environments.

• Raising awareness of OI among companies and SMEs by providing relatable

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• Raising awareness of OI among companies and SMEs by providing relatable

case studies and tools overcoming topical and typical approaches to OI.

• Promotion of hybridation between sectors as a source for OI approaches.

• Role of online collaborative platforms for R&I collaboration and valorisation.

• Study of Shared Facilities and Facility Sharing as a tool promoting OI.

• Studies on OI barriers and facilitators among companies and guidance for

business model evolution following OI approaches.

1. EURIS PROGRAMME

• ¿What are we doing?

– STRATEGIC THINKING: 2 tier process:

• Improvement of Regional Innovation Strategies (RIS) by the design of

Regional Action Plans (RAPs) transferring into RIS the Best Practices

exchanged and/or new models/approaches experimented.

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exchanged and/or new models/approaches experimented.

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Navarra Stuttgart EindhovenWest-

PannonLodz

1. EURIS PROGRAMME

• ¿What are we doing?

– STRATEGIC THINKING: 2 tier process:

• Delivery of general policy recommendations aimed at EU regions and

authorities interested on further embracing an OI culture within their R&I

policies.

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policies.

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