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Dr. Guenter Clar, © EU - LIAISON OFFICE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY • STEINBEIS - EUROPA - ZENTRUM • STUTTGART
SEZ - STEINBEIS-EUROPA-ZENTRUM
Trans-regional Co-operation in
Strengthening the Strategic Dimension
- and thus the Success -
of Regional RTDI Strategies
Dr. Günter Clar
Dublin, 19 April, [email protected]
Dr. Guenter Clar, © EU - LIAISON OFFICE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY • STEINBEIS - EUROPA - ZENTRUM • STUTTGART
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European Challenges
GDP per capita
Input/output relation, efficiency
Competitiveness and Quality of Life in the EU (discrepancies!)
Innovativeness in EU
Investment in Research, Technology Development and Innovation (RTDI) - human and financial resources
Mobility & adaptability, co-operation & structured communication
Transition to knowledge-based society (beyond RTDI fields)
Dr. Guenter Clar, © EU - LIAISON OFFICE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY • STEINBEIS - EUROPA - ZENTRUM • STUTTGART
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3 Strands of EU Policy Development
Formally, RTDI has become a key issueo in EU policy in general
o In EU 2007-2013 budget in general (far beyond the RTDI Framework programmes)
Importance of Strategic Policy Intelligence (SPI) for administration, for enterprises, for NGOs
o a better decision base to improve quality of policy design, the credibility of the process, and the implementation,
o far reaching impacts on economic and business intelligence
Need for better policy integration and impact – importance of regional actors
Dr. Guenter Clar, © EU - LIAISON OFFICE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY • STEINBEIS - EUROPA - ZENTRUM • STUTTGART
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Regions Strengthening EU Strategies
Regional RTDI governance in EU context - ‘vertical’ effect, interaction with other governance levels:
o adapting EU and national RTDI policy approach to specific territorial conditions, and
o communicating / feeding in needs of the regions to national and EU level
Regional RTDI governance vis-à-vis national and EU level – ‘horizontal’, trans-regional effect – self organising capacity: potentially higher implementation impact and efficiency
o can react more rapidly
o can proactively bring all relevant stakeholders together
o can tailor (macro) measures better to regional / institutional needs (smart local intermediaries, knowledge-brokers)
Dr. Guenter Clar, © EU - LIAISON OFFICE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY • STEINBEIS - EUROPA - ZENTRUM • STUTTGART
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Measures for Staying Competitive
Supporting changes in Innovation Systems (IS):o Stimulate knowledge generation, diffusion, absorptiono Develop new understanding of IS (actors, outreach, …)o More multifaceted ‘innovation’ policy (trans-policy-fields, -sectoral, -
governance levels, -national, …)
Adapting Framework Conditions (soft and hard):
o Competencies and values, entrepreneurship culture, technical standards, legal and work regulations, institutional & social capital, ….
Using more Strategic Policy Intelligence (SPI) more intelligently:o Strategic analyses of (trans-)national / regional / sectoral innovation
systems and processeso Benchmarking, policy monitoring & evaluationo Technology Foresight & Assessment, inclusive policy design
Dr. Guenter Clar, © EU - LIAISON OFFICE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY • STEINBEIS - EUROPA - ZENTRUM • STUTTGART
SEZ - STEINBEIS-EUROPA-ZENTRUM
Strategic Policy Intelligence (SPI)
The set of activities to search, process, diffuse & protect information in order to make it available to the right persons at the right time,so that they can take the right decisions.
Related to Research & Innovation (RTDI) policies this includes such policy support instruments as foresight & technology assessment, monitoring, benchmarking, regional innovation auditing, strategic evaluation, ….
(S&T) ForesightVision & Priorities
Implementation/MonitoringResults /Changes
Strategic Evaluation,(Innov) Audits,Benchmarking
Recommendations
Innov&Tech AssessmentEx-ante Evaluation
Agenda Setting
(STI) RoadmappingDetailing / Focusing
Agendas
Dr. Guenter Clar, © EU - LIAISON OFFICE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY • STEINBEIS - EUROPA - ZENTRUM • STUTTGART
SEZ - STEINBEIS-EUROPA-ZENTRUM
Why SPI?Basis for better decisions and investments
(better informed, more clearly based, more broadly based and consensual, more likely on average to be optimum and lower risk)
o early recognition of economic and social opportunities
o early warning against negative impacts
o procedures for mitigating conflicting situations
o reducing costly errors – or costly missed opportunities
o background knowledge for planners & designers, decision aid for technology developers, users, regulators
o contributions to resilient system (improved functionality, consensual co-ordination, policy coherence), socially and environmentally compatible design
attracting more investments also from other sources, incl. FDI
Dr. Guenter Clar, © EU - LIAISON OFFICE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY • STEINBEIS - EUROPA - ZENTRUM • STUTTGART
SEZ - STEINBEIS-EUROPA-ZENTRUM
RTDI, SPI, Regional Decision Makers
Tight budgets, pressure to support ‘obvious’ and short-term demands
Taking informed RTDI related decisions needs comprehensive knowledge base and structured stakeholder input
In general, long-term and macro strategies are difficult to translate into day-to-day decision making procedures
Various regions and smaller countries have addressed these issues effectively and used SPI based approaches successfully.
Why not the others?
Is the use of SPI tools too expensive, too complicated, too academic, too different from established & proven procedures?
Are there no understandable & adaptable ‘models’ and guidelines?
Dr. Guenter Clar, © EU - LIAISON OFFICE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY • STEINBEIS - EUROPA - ZENTRUM • STUTTGART
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RegStrat - A European Consortium
Dr. Guenter Clar, © EU - LIAISON OFFICE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY • STEINBEIS - EUROPA - ZENTRUM • STUTTGART
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Contributing to Policy Fields of High EU Relevance
Regional actors’ contribution to Lisbon and Barcelona Goals
Regional dimension of FP7
Strategic dimension of CIP
Strategic dimension and RTDI investments of Structural Funds
Dr. Guenter Clar, © EU - LIAISON OFFICE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY • STEINBEIS - EUROPA - ZENTRUM • STUTTGART
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The RegStrat Project aims to improve (regional) policy design and implementation by supporting regional decision-makers and facilitating the application of Strategic Policy Intelligence
o Foster understanding of SPI Tools
o Supply appropriately processed information
o Design pilot applications to test usability of tools
Ongoing policy learning in practice
Building both on EU and regional knowledge-base
Integrating use of regional, national, EU (ERDF, ESG, FP7, CIP), and FDI support
Contributing to policy fields of high EU and regional relevance
RegStrat Objectives
Dr. Guenter Clar, © EU - LIAISON OFFICE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY • STEINBEIS - EUROPA - ZENTRUM • STUTTGART
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Regional RTDI Investment Strategies
RegStrat focuses on the intersection of policy research, SPI application and regional development
Bringing together regional stakeholder networks, SPI practitioners, policy researchers
Rationale: with improved decision base, and more innovative & less risky choices, regional actors more confident RTDI-related in investment decisions. More likely to
o allocate own public funds for RTDI-related or –relevant activities (S&T, HE, other policy fields)
o leverage such investments from & in private sector
o attract resources from national and EU (Cohesion, Agriculture, Infrastructure etc), AND from foreign direct investment budgets.
Dr. Guenter Clar, © EU - LIAISON OFFICE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY • STEINBEIS - EUROPA - ZENTRUM • STUTTGART
SEZ - STEINBEIS-EUROPA-ZENTRUMRegStrat pilots: SPI tailored to regional
situation
(S&T) ForesightVision & Priorities
Implementation/MonitoringResults /Changes
Strategic Evaluation,(Innov) Audits,Benchmarking
Recommendations
Innov&Tech AssessmentEx-ante Evaluation
Agenda Setting
(STI) RoadmappingDetailing / Focusing
Agendas