1. This project is co-funded by the European Union
I3U “Investigating the Impact of the Innovation Union“ Kick off meeting - 10 March WP8 – Making it happen Carlo Sessa – ISIS -
Venue: ISIS – Institute of Studies for the Integration of Systems
Largo dei Lombardi, 4
00186 Rome, Italy
This project is co-funded by the European Union

2. WP8 - MAKING IT HAPPEN WP objectives
Self-assessment of Member States reform programmes (state of the art of IU committment 33)
Assessment of the Research and Innovation Union scoreboard and headline indicator (state of the art of IU committment 34)
Qualitative assessment of innovation governance at EU level and in the individual Member States

3. WP8 - MAKING IT HAPPEN Tasks description
Task 8.1 Assessment of the state of implementation of the Member States reform programme (IU committment 33), based on IU state of art reports and national sources (when available in English)
Task 8.2 Assessment of the Innovation Union scoreboard and headline innovation output indicator (IU committment 34) and development of linkages to use them as inputs in NEMESIS
Task 8.3 Qualitative assessment of the Innovation Union governance, at EU and member states level, based on literature and a number (20 to 30) of interviews
Task leaders: ISIS (tasks 8.1 and 8.3), SEURECO (task 8.2)

4. Deliverables
D8.1 IU Commitment 33 Report: Comparative assessment of Member States reform programmes – Leader ISIS – Month 10
D8.2 IU Commitment 34 Report: Overall impact of the Innovation Union progress as measured throught the IU scoreboard – Leader ISIS – Month 22
D8.3 Assessment of the multi-governance Innovation Union system effectiveness – Leader ISIS – Month 30

5. Resources ISIS: 20 man/months SEURECO: 2 man/months
UN-MERIT: 1,50 man/months

6. WP8 – IU committments 33
Commitment 33 – Member States R&I Systems: Member States are invited to carry out self-assessment based on the policy features identified in Annex I of the IU and identify key challenges and critical reforms as part of their National Reform Programmes. The Commission will support this process through exchanges of best practice, peer reviews and developing the evidence base. It will also apply them to its own research and innovation initiatives. Progress will be monitored in the framework of the integrated economic coordination (“European semester”).
State of the art ( ):
Innovation Union Self-Assessment Tool (SAT) – Annex I of the IU
Only 5 countries (Belgium, Estonia, Denmark, Spain, Iceland) used the tool to carry out peer reviews
New tool launched under H2020: Policy Support Facility

7. WP8 – IU committment 34 State of the art (2010-2014):
Commitment 34 – Develop an Innovation Headline Indicator and monitor progress using Innovation Union Scoreboard: The Commission proposes to launch the necessary work for the development of a new indicator measuring the share of fast growing innovative companies in the economy. This will require the full cooperation of Member States and international partners. Subject to these commitments, the Commission will submit the necessary proposals and take urgent action to develop this indicator within the next two years, working with OECD as appropriate, so that it can become, over time, a new headline indicator allowing as part of the EU2020 strategy to benchmark the EU’s performance against its main trading partners. Starting immediately, the Commission will monitor overall progress on innovation performance using the Research and Innovation Union scoreboard.
State of the art ( ):
Innovation output indicator: Communication «Measuring Innovation output in Europe: towards a new indicator» adopted in Used for country specific recommendations in 2014
Innovation Union scoreboard: Updated in 2010 with 25 indicators. Published yearly, latest available issue in 2014

8. WP8 - Relation with other workpackages
Commitment 33: linkage with smart specialization strategies and commitments 24 and 25 on the use of structural funds (WP6)
Commitment 34: collinearity with WP10 macro-sectoral economic modelling

9. Actions required
Assessment of the degree of completion of the commitments in each EU Member State: mostly done on the basis of IU state of the art reports
Direct impact assessment of the commitments by econometric or other suitable methods: qualitative appraisal of the implementation of self-assessment (country peer-reviews) and IU indicators
Providing inputs for modelling:
the conceptual model of the EU Innovation System: linkages with the self-assessment framework
the NEMESIS model: fitting the Innovation Scoreboard and Innovation output indicator in WP10 modelling exercise

10. Immediate actions (next 6 months)
Review of self-assessment state of the art (commitment 33)
Review of IU indicators system (commitment 34) and check their suitability and consistency as inputs to NEMESIS (WP10)

11. Open points
How the assessment of the innovation governance at EU and Member States level will fit into the whole I3U picture?
Tentative answers:
Different governance scenarios (e.g. storylines of EU and territorial based governance vs nation-state based governance) translating into different strenght, orientation (e.g. competitiveness vs cohesion) and performance (as measured through NEMESIS sensitivity analysis) of the EU innovation system
Composite indicator of good governance (country risk) to be used as risk factor in the macro- economic modelling (NEMESIS)

12. Thank you
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