Richard Tuffs, Director of ERRIN23 Feb 2011

East Poland Presentation

Outline

• ERRIN journey• Mission• Organisation• Activities• ERRIN DNA• Key policy issues• Discussion

Mission

• 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.

• ERRIN helps regions get their voice heard in Brussels and supports the implementation of the Europe2020 Strategy and the Innovation Union flagship initiative.

The ERRIN journey

2001 – Informal network

2004 – Regions of Knowledge

2006 – Oct - Relaunch with MB + subscription

2008 – 60 regions

2011 – 90 regions

Phase 1: sharing information

Phase 2: comms hub, regional voice and contact point

Phase 3: policy & projects

ERRIN membership per Country

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8

13

12

65

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4

6

34

16

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5

Organisation

• Management Board of 15 regional representations in Brussels

• Chaired by Valencia; Vice Chair Ile de France• Open to all regional triple helix stakeholders• Members cooperate through a policy and

projects group and twelve thematic working groups

ICTNorth East England/PACA

HealthSouth Denmark/Flanders

BiotechNorth East England/ Northern

Ireland/ CEBR

Science in SocietyScotland Europa/Bremen

TransportEszak-Alfold/Canary Islands

NanotechBrainport

Eindhoven/M2i/Piemonte

Future RTD

Scotland Europa/CreoDK

Energy & Climate Change

Scotland Europa, Veneto Region

Innovation Funding

Welsh Higher Education, Cantabria

International cooperationScotland/Catalunya

Tourism & Sport

Tampere/Valencia

Design & Creativity

Helsinki/Flanders/CCI Paris/Central Denmark

Activities: Working Groups• Feb 14: D&C • Feb 15: Open Days consortium on Smart Specialisation• Feb 16: T WG briefing on C-Liege project• Feb 16: E&CCH WG meeting• Feb 16: IF – Interreg IVB North West Europe Brokerage event• Feb 17: SiS WG meeting• Feb 22: ICT• Feb 24: Nanotech• March 1: Health• March?: Tourism• April 4: ICT – CIP ICT PSP Brokerage event

ICT Working Group

ICT Working Group

ERRIN – 3 Ps

POLICY

PROFILEPROJECTS

Shaping EU R&I policy

Supporting project development and

engaging ERRIN regions in EU projects

Raising the profile or the network and member regions in Brussels

Projects

• Support project development for ERRIN regions

• Information, intelligence, – Early drafts of FP7 work programmes

• Project development, partnership search…• Brokerage sessions

– ICT and health (CIP ICT PSP)– Intelligent Energy (CIP Intelligent Energy)– Interreg IVC (Territorial Cooperation)– Interreg IVB (North West Europe)– ICT (CIP) April 4th 2011

ERRIN in projects

• PLACES (FP7 Science in Society) with 10 ERRIN regions

• Ecolink+ CIP• Making Knowledge Work

(Interreg IVC) with 13 ERRIN regions

• GRAAL (FP7 Space GMES)• C-Liege (CIP IEE)• CONCORD (FP7 ICT Future

Internet)

Policy

• Policy– Contribute a regional dimension to EU research

and innovation policies– Contribute to the success of Europe 2020 and the

Innovation Union– Consultation responses to future Cohesion Policy,

European Innovation Partnership, CIP and Research and Innovation agenda

– Meetings with DG R&I – e.g. Robert-Jan Smits

Profile

• Profile– Develop a critical mass in Brussels (90 members

most with regional representation in Brussels)– Raise the profile of ERRIN regions in Brussels

• Leading working groups• Support regional events• Presentations to WGs• Regional profiles (e.g. Making Knowledge Work)

ERRIN Events• 24 Jan/ New Year Lecture with Gerard de Graaf Innovation Unit DG R&I• 2 Feb: meeting with Robert-Jan Smits and Clara de la Torre DG R&I (with

EURADA)• 23 Feb: MKW briefing #2 Innovation and SMEs• 10-11 March: Smart specialisation (S3) (with DG Regio/EURADA)• 17 March: Future mobility EU/US perspective with Stuttgart (Bibliothèque

Solvay)• 22-23 March: ERRIN designed S3 session at University-Business Forum• 30 March: Financial Engineering (with EURADA)???• 1 April : Follow up meeting with DG R&I (with EURADA)• 14 April: Sustainable Energy Week – S3 and energy and KIC seminar• 16 May?: ERRIN 10 years AGM• 22-23 Sept: PLACES political symposium in Paris• October: Open Days ERRIN consortia on S3

ERRIN DNA

Partners &projects

Voicing positions

Developing networks

Raising capacity

Mutual learning

Trust &confidence

Essential contacts

Information &

intelligence

Visibility &critical mass

Sharingknowledge

ERRIN from a member perspective

• The network provides good contacts with other European

regions which have similar interests, expertise and

challenges…

• ERRIN is a concrete and well-focused network – practical

and results oriented…

• One gets access to relevant information and ‘early

warnings’ on topics and issues of interest to members…

• The network is well-known and respected in the Brussels

environment…

AGM survey 18th November 2010

ERRIN and R&I policy• Europe 2020 / Innovation Union

– Briefing Oct with DG Ent/ Making Knowledge Work

• Smart specialisation– Debate at AGM Nov– S3 and Higher Education, Energy and overview at Open

Days 2011

• Future Research and Innovation framework– Briefing 11th Feb DG R&I

• Cohesion policy• Future EU budget

What is Innovation Union?• Strategic approach • Partnership with Member States• From idea to market• Research to retail

• Tackling weaknesses• Under-investment • Fragmentation • Framework conditions

• Building on strengths• Focus on societal challenges• Broad concept of innovation• Involving all actors

Highlights• European Innovation Partnerships• European Research Area framework• Streamlined EU programmes• New financial instruments• Reform of standardisation system • Public procurement of innovation• Social innovation pilot• Stronger monitoring• Innovation Convention

A distinctive European approach to

innovationRegional dimensionRegional

dimension

Innovation Union: the regional dimension

• Regions need innovation and innovation needs regions• The Innovation Union must involve ‘all actors and all regions in the

innovation cycle…focusing on…smart specialisation with Europe, Member States and regions acting in partnership’ (page 8)

• Regions key players as they are the places where innovation happens– Triple helix partners– Core competences – including institutional competences – Shift of innovation from private/agent to public/network e.g congestion

charging, e-health, green cars, etc.– Collaborate, connect and collaborate (benchmarking/peer review…)– Critical mass vs proximity– Regions – vertical and horizontal alignment

Regional Innovation Systems

Eurocoop 2006 WP2 deliverable 10

Changing knowledge goodsAgent-based Networked

Private goods

Patents, trademarks, etc. produced by individual

agents

Co-Patents etc. produced by

networks of agents

Public goods

Open knowledge goods produced by individual

agents (including public) Social innovation

Open knowledge goods produced by social and place-

based networks e.g. wiki-model

Pre-commercial procurement

Adapted by ERRIN

Innovation Union – some aspects of the regional dimension

Action ERRIN Working Groups

7. Future research and innovation programmes should ensure simple access and stronger involvement of SMEs

Innovation Funding – is working closely with the SME dimension and university-business contacts

ERRIN /EURADA meeting with Robert-Jan Smits to discuss future SME funding. Follow up on 1st April

17. Member States and regions should set aside dedicated budgets for pre-commercial procurements and public procurements of innovative products and services

Innovation Funding WG – will work with the European Commission to spread best practice among regions

18. Eco-innovation action plan in 2011 Energy WG – has and will develop seminars in sustainable energy week and has developed many projects under the Intelligent Energy Programme. ERRIN is a partner in a European eco-innovation project Ecolink+ and was a co-organiser of the Green Knowledge Triangle seminar on October 27 in the European Parliament.

Innovation Union – some aspects of the regional dimension

Action ERRIN Working Groups

24. Starting in 2010, Member States should improve their use of structural funds for research and innovation projects, developing skills and implementing smart specialisation strategies and trans-national projects

Policy WG - there is clearly more synergies to be made between future structural funds and research and innovation. ERRIN involved in discussions with DG Regio on ‘smart specialisation strategies’ and ERRIN/EURADA seminar on S3 on March 10/11

25. Member States should initiate the preparation of post 2013 Structural Fund programmes with an increased focus on innovation

ERRIN has responded to the Cohesion Consultation in January 2011

29. Innovation partnerships… The Commission would welcome views and ideas on the areas being considered for future partnerships and other candidates that meet the success criteria

Health and Policy WG – ERRIN considers that there should be a regional dimension within innovation partnerships and Health and ICT WGs have organised two seminars in Brussels on this topic, participated at the stakeholder meeting, sent in a response to the consultation and now regional representatives will be part of a high-level steering group for EIPs

Smart specialisation • Smart specialisation policies needed for each region• Need to compare regional strengths with other

regions and look for gain via inter-regional and trans-national cooperation

• Smart specialisation requires business, research centres and universities working together to identify promising areas and also bottlenecks to innovation

• Smart specialisation must include policy learning, peer reviews with regional stakeholders

S3 Component Parts• Innovation clusters• Innovation friendly business environments for SMEs• Lifelong learning in research and innovation• Attractive regional research infrastructure and centres of

competence• Creativity and cultural industries• Digital agenda• Public procurement• Addressing societal challenges through Innovation

Partnerships

The SThe S33 platform platform

S3 and ERRIN

• ERRIN will play into the S3 Platform– expertise from universities, research centres,

regional authorities, business…

• Explore concept– S3 and energy– S3 and higher education– S3 Open Days seminar

Future R&I - ERRIN 10 points

• Ambition• Research aimed at societal challenges• Use regional excellence/partnerships/

integrated strategies• Consolidation• Synergies between research and innovation

and more focus on user-driven innovation/ living labs

Future R&I - ERRIN 10 points

• Encourage inter-disciplinary and inter-regional research

• More support for the innovation chain and commercialisation or results

• Mix of top down and bottom up research (frontier research)

• High trust and more tolerance or error/proportionality

• Beware a results driven approach/lump sums

Conclusions• Innovation is place based (Barca Report) and involves not just a

technology or service improvement but increasingly a set of factors mixing public and private networks – collaboration, coordination and connectivity

• Smart specialisation will involve regions being spatially aware and outward looking – exchanging best practice, benchmarking…

• ERRIN has the critical mass, experience and expertise to– Contribute actively to the policy debate for Research and Innovation,

Structural Funds, EU Budget– Support the implement of the Europe 2020 Strategy / Innovation Union

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