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Regions, smart specialisation and synergies Richard Tuffs, Director ERRIN

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Outline

• Brief overview of ERRIN

• Developing regional and city innovation ecosystems • Triple helix, quadruple helix…Open Innovation 2.0

• Developing synergies • Horizon 2020 and ESIF • Seeking synergies • Smart specialisation

• Platforms and strategic clusters

• New roles at the regional level • Possible new intermediaries

ERRIN

• ERRIN, with over 120 members, helps regions get their voice heard in Brussels and supports the implementation of the Europe2020 Strategy, the Innovation Union flagship initiative, Smart Specialisation and Widening Participation.

• ERRIN is a Brussels-based platform of regions strengthening regional research and innovation capacities by exchanging information, sharing best practice, supporting Project development, Policy shaping and Profile raising.

2016-

The ERRIN journey

2001

Informal network

2004 - FP6 Regions of Knowledge

2006 Oct. – Relaunch with Management Board, Subscription fee

2008 - 60 Regions

2012

90 Regions

2000 Lisbon Strategy to turn the EU into the most competitive knowledge-based society by 2010

Increase in R&D funding from 2003 – €19bn for FP6

H2020 €77bn

Horizon 2020 from 2014 - €79bn

2000 Commission Report on Governance “need to strengthen relations with regional and local authorities…”.

2004 + 10 new Member States

120+ Regions

Partners &

projects

Voicing

positions

Developing

networks

Raising

capacity

Mutual learning

Trust &

confidence

Essential

contacts

Information

&

intelligence

Visibility &

critical mass

Sharing knowledge

ERRIN DNA

ERRIN Four Ps

Policy

Projects

Partner-

ship

Profile

Supporting project development and engaging ERRIN regions in EU projects

Raising the profile of ERRIN and member regions in Brussels

Influencing EU Research & Innovation

Policy

Juncker Plan Synergies

Smart Specialisation Innovation Council

Horizon 2020

Working with our members

Joint events – EURADA/ERRIN and

AER/ERRIN MoUs

Project Brokerage ICT/KETS /Health/ SSH

June 21st-22nd Energy 25th Oct

Energy 19th Jan 2017

Average of +2 events/invitations to

speak per week ERRIN in ‘SmartSpec

Project’ with ten ERRIN regions

Partner Searches on website

www.errin.eu

Energy & Climate Change

Bio-economy/ Food & Agri

Health Water / Process Industry

Transport Smart Cities Tourism Advanced

manufacturing/ Nano

Blue Growth Design & Creativity

ICT Opening Science

Innovation & Investment

Smart Specialisation

Policy

ERRIN Working Groups 2016

Working Groups and Leaders 2016 • Policy – Scotland Europa, East & North Finland & South Tyrol

• Projects – West Midlands, Eindhoven & Lombardy

Societal

• Energy – Scotland Europa, Flanders & West Finlan

• Health – Stavanger, South Denmark & Lombardy

• Opening Science – Bremen, Berlin, Capital Region DK & Wales Higher Education

• Transport & Logistics – Aragon, Ile de France & Scotland

• Water – Fryslan

Industry

• Advanced manufacturing & nano – Twente University, Rhone-Alpes, West Mids & Basque Country

• Bio economy, food & sustainable agriculture – West Finland, Northern Ireland, Navarra, Pays de la Loire & Veneto

• Design & creativity – Central Denmark, Lombardy & Stuttgart

• ICT – Zealand, Berlin & Extremadura

• Innovation & investment – Cantabria, Eindhoven, KEPA & Trento

• Tourism – Valencia, Crete, Lombardy & Saxony Anhalt

X-cutting

• Smart Cities Communities & Regions –Eindhoven, East & North Finland , North Sweden, Noord Regio & Stavanger

• Smart Specialisation – Scotland Europa, PACA, Helsinki & Malta

• Blue Innovation & Growth – Crete, Pomorskie & Emilia Romagna

Strategic Over 40 regions involved in leading Working Groups

Working Groups • Develop an annual work plan

with broad objectives and planning

• Meet approx 4 times per year

• Most meetings involve Brussels representatives

• Regional experts needed for brokerage events for project development

Working Groups – what do they do?

Working Group

Policy

Projects

Partnership

Profile

Brokerage sessions x 1

per year

EU institutions -

speakers

Other networks

Regional presentations

Project dissemination

Making contacts

Regional interests &

competences

Developing positions

Sharing knowledge

Mutual learning

Visibility

Early intelligence

ERRIN activities Nov 2016 (1)

• 7th Nov: ERRIN moderates Marine Energy event for Wales

• 8th Nov: Kick off for new project AM Motion

• 14th Nov: RIM Plus – advanced manufacturing workshop

• 14th Nov: ERRIN presenting at unplugging data in smart regions conference

• 15th Nov: ERRIN meeting on Interim Evaluation of H2020 position

• 16th Nov: ERRIN moderate Baltic Sea Conference in Brussels

• 18th Nov: ERRIN on Advisory Board of Thinking Smart project (Higher Education and S3)

ERRIN activities Nov 2016 (2)

• 22nd Nov: EIP Smart City AGM

• 22nd Nov: ERRIN & EIP SCC cocktail on Citizen engagement

• 23rd Nov: ERRIN EIP Smart Cities, Citizen engagement manifesto event

• 24th Nov: ERRIN event (with ERA Stakeholder Platform) on circulation of knowledge at the regional level

• 25th Nov: ERRIN presents at Commission Research Infrastructure Workshop

• 29th Nov: ERRIN as key note speaker at NCP conference Paris

• 29th Nov: ERRIN at More Years Better Lives Conference Rome

• 30th Nov: ERRIN Chairs Smart Specialisation Mirror Group

ERRIN activities December 2016

• 1st Dec : Innovation and Investment WG – entrepreneurial regions

• 1st and 2nd Dec: ERRIN at Cluster Conference

• 6th Dec: ADMA WG

• 6th Dec: WIRE 2016 overview meeting

• 8th Dec: ERRIN moderating Welsh Govt Health workshop

• 9th Dec: ERRIN presentation to IGLO

• 13th Dec: Bioeconomy WG

• 13th Dec: RIM Plus final workshop - overview

• 14th Dec: ERRIN AGM

• 19th Dec: SPARKS Project Meeting

• 20th Dec: SPARKS Project Review Meeting

Triple helix >>>>>>>> Quadruple helix

Triple helix linkages seen as important for city/regional competitiveness and jobs and growth

Quadruple helix and Innovation 2.0

Capital of Innovation

Research and innovation and regional policy

Smart Specialisation and synergies

Triple helix supported by EU funding

Horizon 2020 – €75 billion

European Structural and Investment Fund €352 billion

The reforms agreed for the 2014-2020 period are

designed to maximise the impact of the available EU

funding. €1 082 billion

OVERALL EU 2014-2020 BUDGET

Other EU policies Agruculture Research External Etc.

€730.2 billion

67.5% 32.5%

€351.8 billion

COHESION POLICY

GROWTH

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

ERDF – Thematic Objectives

Research and Innovation Combating climate change

Information and Commu-

nication technologies

Competitiveness of SMEs

Low-carbon economy

Environment and

resource efficiency

Sustainable transport

Better public

administration

Better education, training

Social inclusion

Employment and Mobility

15%

20% 12%

50% 60%

80%

Less developed regions

Transition regions More developed

regions

Marc Lemaitre DG DG Regio

‘…we have top-notch research infrastructure in Europe but not fully used. There is a mismatch of physical infrastructure and researchers and we need a better match between physical and human capital’ (and regional strategies) Spreading Excellence and Crossing the Innovation Divide Conference Brussels ǀ 23 November 2016

The call for synergies

• Building meaningful interactions between the two policy frameworks and their investment strategies can have significant impacts on the economy, combining place-based innovation investments in smart specialisation priorities with world-class research and innovation initiatives, thus ensuring a higher impact of the funds.

• Fostering synergies will not only bring about better efficiency, it will ultimately lead to a positive impact on jobs, growth and competitiveness across Europe's diverse regions – a positive impact from investing more in developing regional research and innovation capacities, the drivers of economic growth in the Union.

Synergies • Synergy-type 1: Providing funding from alternative sources for positively

evaluated Framework Programme/Horizon 2020 proposals but not funded due to insufficient Call budgets

• Synergy-type 2: Funding actions that build research and innovation capacities of actors aimed at participating in the Framework Programme/Horizon 2020 or other internationally competitive research and innovation programmes (sequential - upstream)

• Synergy-type 3: Funding actions that capitalise on already implemented Framework Programme/Horizon 2020 research and innovation actions aimed at market up-take (sequential - downstream)

• Synergy-type 4: Combining funding from the Framework Programme/Horizon 2020 and the ESI Funds (and/or from other sources) for coordinated parallel actions that complement each other

• Synergy-type 5: Bringing together funding from Horizon 2020 and the ESI Funds in an integrated research and innovation project that could be a single action or a group of inter-dependent actions or operations

Synergies – easy to describe, difficult to do…

Upstream Synergy-type 2

Downstream Synergy-type 3

Synergy-type 4 – parallel actions Synergy-type 5 – integrated actions

Synergy-type 1 – funding unsuccessful H2020 projects via ESIF

The valley of death of synergies

EU Support for Innovation

Horizon 2020 … et al

Structural funds

Beneficiaries

(SMEs, Universities)

Regional management authorities

Regional funding guidelines

Smart Specialisation

Thanks to Annelie Zapfe – Thuringia Region

Smart specialisation

• Breaking with the past while building on the past…

• Identifying priorities through a process of Entrepreneurial Discovery Process – engaging stakeholders in identifying competitive advantage

Smart specialisation: three dimensions

Growth and jobs

Territorial development

Societal challenge

What roles

for regions?

Implementation

, impact…

Economic approach Entrepreneurial Discovery Process SMEs See Dominique Foray

University dimension

Solving grand challenges

‘Captured by universities?’

Territorial strategies Smart Cities…

Citizen engagement?

Smart Specialisation Thematic Platforms

Cluster Policy, S3 and ESIF

Vanguard Initiative

Synergies: A new role

Growth and jobs

Territorial development

Societal challenge

Evolution…

Two tribes: research v administration

Two tribes: two ways of thinking Research and innovation

• Ideas

• People

• Ecosystem approach

• Personal career focus • Research and publications • Peer reviews important

Regional administration

• Process

• Efficiency

• Budget

• Audit

• Hierarchical structures

Who will evolve?

? Homo synergus

Territorial dimension Widening

participation

ESIF RIS3

Research Infrastructure

Science With and For Society –

citizen

Excellence

Challenges

Industry

Place-based approach to research and innovation Building effective research and innovation ecosystems

Improved Synergies

Strengthening Interreg-Europe Platforms

Clusters

‘If there is one thing to do in the next three years, concentrate on the regions’ Robert Madelin ISBG Conference 16th Nov 2016

Smart Cities/Urban

Transport

Projects with clear geographical focus

Thanks to Technopolicy for Model

Synergies means preparing programmes before 2021 FP9 topics

Transport AV1 Automated driving – research on IT and satellite systems

Transport AV2/T1 Automated driving – demo and pilot actions

Smart Cities SC1/T2 Lighthouse projects

Etc.

ERDF Research and Innovation

Research and Innovation Thematic Objective

No territorial match

T1 Test facilities for innovation in surface transport

T2… Support for Lighthouse projects involving physical infrastructure for housing and transport and ICT investment

T3 Etc…

Joined up discussions between DG RTD and DG Regio to exchange information on thematic areas with territorial focus pre-2021

New visions are possible…

The High Line from the disused to the new vision

Evolution post 2020: some signs of optimism

R&I Excellence EIC, Innovation

and impact

Regional administration

Territorial development

Collaboration with all

stakeholders

New role? Boundary spanning

Joining up within and between regions

Conclusion

• Research and innovation as the driver of jobs and growth

• Regional research and innovation ecosystems now accepted • The muddy pond vs linear model

• Triple, quadruple…helix

• Need to join up two main funding streams at EU level – ESIF and H2020

• But…problems (time frames, objectives, processes, silos…in 2014-2020

• Opportunity to develop new types of actors on the ground to help develop synergies…

• What future roles for NCPs?

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Ryan Titley Communication & Planning Manager communication@errin.eu Andrea Lagundzija Member Relations Manager members@errin.eu Anett Ruszanov Projects Manager projects@errin.eu Richard Tuffs Director director@errin.eu