1. INTERREG IVC CAPITALISATION Regional innovation policies and different approaches
Meeting of 20 May 2010
Christian Saublens
Executive Manager EURADA

2. Aim
To test a specific methodology in order to maximize the programme’s impact and in particular to:
create the conditions of an optimal exploitation of the knowledge resulting from the projects,
help the programme strengthen its own internal coherence, with the clustering of projects dealing with similar issues,
provide in return relevant thematic information to the running projects and therefore contribute to increasing the quality of their exchange of experience and knowledge,
make the programme’s achievements more visible and to be able to draw some policy recommendations at the European level based on the projects’ results.

3. Methodology
Analyse the 21 projects' work plans in order to issue a project fact sheet ,
Meet with five project leaders,
Discuss common challenges and solutions at project and programme levels,
Draft policy recommendations for 3 issues: regional innovation strategies, international exchange of experience and transfer of know-how gained / created thanks to Interreg funding,
Publicize a final report.

4. Ideas for further common activities
Achievements
21 fact sheets
5 project visits
Fact sheet analysis
2 thematic workshops
Ideas for further common activities

5. Ways of clustering projects
At project level
The core topic of the project
Their sub-objectives
The way they address critical assets to be able to implement regional innovation strategy
The contribution of the project to strengthen the 10 main ingredients of a regional innovation strategy
The place of the project in the regional innovation system/value chain
Implicit capitalisation
At programme level
The composition of the partnership
The nature/type of the project
The foreseen exit strategy
Synergies between projects if partners are involved in more than one
Synergies between projects’ outcomes funded by different programmes, i.e. RoK or Europe Innova.
At good practice level
Impacting the framework conditions
Enhancing enterprise support

6. Response to critical issues
More than half of the projects are dealing with:
Regional innovation instruments for SMEs
Regional eco-innovation system
Involvement of intermediary organisations
Reviewing the regional action plan.
Projects target the improvement of:
the regional strategic capital
institutional and administrative capital
social capital.

7. Response to critical issues
To achieve this, the projects concentrate on:
governance and integrated approach
university/enterprise cooperation
commercialisation of new ideas
start-up creation
market intelligence
new forms of public intervention.
However, the projects do not touch sufficiently on:
access to finance
talent and skills attraction
internationalisation
IPR protection.

8. Place of the project in the Regional Innovation System

9. Place of the project in the Regional Innovation System
Knowledge production
Innovation leveraging process
Commercialisation process
Full innovation process
INNOPOLIS
IPP
DISTRICT+
ECREIN+
INOLINK
I4W
Know-Man
MKW
MINI-EUROPE
NANO4M
POOLING4CLUSTERS
RAPIDE
ChemClust
CLIQ
ERIK ACTION
ERMIS
EURIS
FRESH
PERIA
PROSESC
SCINNOPOLI

10. Implicit capitalisation (1)
Projects based on previous collective work
INTERREG III
FP6
OTHER EU PROGRAMMES
EU NETWORKS
ERIK ACTION
I4W
MINI EUROPE
CHEMCLUST
PROSESC
FRESH
NANO4M
SCINNOPOLI
ECREIN+ (DG Environment)
PERIA (IRE Network Streering Group)
CLIQ (Eurotowns Network)
MKW (ERRIN Network)

11. Implicit capitalisation (2)
Multiproject / programme beneficiaries
24 organisations are involved in at least 2 Interreg IVC projects
5 Interreg IVC partners are also involved in projects funded by Regions of Knowledge and by EUROPE INNOVA
24 Interreg IVC partners are involved in Regions of Knowledg projects
16 Interreg IVC partners are involved in EUROPE INNOVA projects

12. First conclusions

13. Capitalisation expectations
Policy level
Involvement of Stakeholders
Transition from current practices to the next generation
How to adapt practices to regulation constraints and the incentives to regional power/competence
Complementarity between local assets owners
Involvement of managing authorities
Methodology level
Market intelligence
Building user-driven innovation

14. Capitalisation expectations
Project management level
Mini-programme implementation
Reporting issues
Working plan follow-up
Practice level
Framework conditions
Cooperate social responsability
Methodology for innovation assessment
Putting the quadruple helix in the centre for social innovation
Support for enterprises
Placement of young graduates in SMEs
Business Angel Networks
Support to clusters
New forms of incubation for start-ups …

15. Capitalisation exercise
Good practice repository
Thematic events
- Urbact: Open innovation
- Tillväxt Verket: Innovation environments
Pool of experts
Bilateral contacts

16. Innovation also covers issues such as:
General remarks (1)
Innovation is no longer perceived as a consequence of technology development.
Innovation also covers issues such as:
creativity and design
business models
response to societal challenges
services
user driven innovation
NB: several projects seem to follow this path, but due to limited best practice data availability this needs further investigation

17. General remarks (2)
Most projects are looking at the framework conditions by better involving key stakeholders, enhancing the regional innovation eco-system and reviewing the instruments to support innovation by SMEs. They are looking to strenghtening their strategic capital, as well as the institutional and the adminstrative capital. This leads to improvement in social and societal capital BUT projects are less addressing specific issues related to access to finance, IP protection, technology transfer and human capital. And what about impact assessment?

18. General remarks (3)

19. Thank you!