1. Cohesion policy at the cutting edge of jobs and growth
EDDY HARTOG Head of Unit REGIO.C1
EUROPEAN COMMISSION

2. EIS 2005 – Overall Innovation Performance of Member States
Leading
Average
Losing
ground
Catching up
Source : European Commission / DG ENTR D1

3. Regional Innovation Scoreboard data source
RIS
Indicator
Source
Human resources 1
Human Resources in Science and Technology – Core (% of population)
Labour Force Survey 2
Participation in life-long learning (% of 25 – 64 years age class) 3
Employment in medium-high and high-tech manufacturing (% of total workforce) 4
Employment in high-tech services (% of total workforce)
Knowledge creation 5
Public R&D expenditures (GERD – BERD) (% of GDP)
R&D statistics 6
Business expenditures on R&D (BERD) (% of GDP) 7
EPO patent applications (per million population)
Patent statistics

4. Regional innovation performance in Europe - 2006
Ranking of Nuts 2 regions
1-20 (top10%)
21-50
51-100
BE, PL4, PL5, PL6, UK : Nuts 1

5. CONCLUSION: ACTION AT REGIONAL LEVEL ESSENTIAL
ON RTDI:
25% in infrastructures
37% in technology transfer/networks/partnerships
26% supporting research in universities and research institutes.

6. THE ROLE OF COHESION POLICY
Governance (programming, partnership)
Analysis (Evaluation, Regional Innovation strategies)
Non-compartmentalised funding
Instruments (BICs)
Acting together (INTERREG)
Exchange of experience
ON RTDI:
25% in infrastructures
37% in technology transfer/networks/partnerships
26% supporting research in universities and research institutes.

7. Moving up a gear in experimentation
Learn by working together (go beyond exchanging best practices)
Use existing networks (Innovation Relay centres) and existing intermediaries
Think creatively

8. 2007-2013 options global grants
working groups within the monitoring committee
actions for inter-regional co-operation

9. 2007-2013 preferred choice specific instrument (laboratory)
specific financial allocation
dedicated team
implementation different from OP

10. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION