REGIONAL INNOVATION MONITOR POLICY WORKSHOP 2010

Launch and networking event

Brussels, 26 October 2010

In association with

Funded by the European Commission

Organised with support of

PROGRAMME OVERVIEW

TUESDAY, 26 OCTOBER 2010

09:15 Welcome by Technopolis

09:25 Welcome address by the European Commission

09:45 Regional Innovation Monitor: Introduction

10:15 Regional Innovation Monitor: Benchmarking tool

10:45 Networking & coffee break

11:15 Drawing a policy map of regional innovation policies: the regional innovation

policy profiles

12:00 Round Table: User perspective: how to optimise the value added of RIM for

regional policy makers?

12:30 Lunch

14:00 15 years of regional innovation policy: the case of North Rhine-Westphalia

14:30 15 years of regional innovation policy: the case of Wales

15:00 Roundtable discussion

15:30 Networking & coffee break

16:00 Regional Innovation Policy in Asturias: current situation and future perspectives

16:30 Regional Innovation Policy in Silesia: current situation and future perspectives

17:00 Conclusions of the day and discussions

18:00 End of meeting, followed by a cocktail

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ABOUT THE REGIONAL INNOVATION MONITOR

The overarching objective of this project is to enhance the competitiveness of European regions through increasing the effectiveness of their innovation policies and strategies. The specific objective of the RIM is to enhance the scope and quality of policy assessment by providing policy-makers, other innovation stakeholders with the analytical framework and tools for evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of regional policies and regional innovation systems. The project places particular emphasis on the following aspects:

Overview of EU, national and regional innovation support measures, policy documents and organisations

RIM’s innovation repository will provide an easy access and comparative overview of all relevant regional innovation support measures and strategies, policy documents as well as organisations. Each region covered by the RIM will have a separate regional page where the user will be able to gain access briefs for almost two hundred regions covered by the RIM (called the baseline regional profiles) allowing to get a quick snapshot on the socio-economic situation, RTDI performance, innovation governance and policy trends in a specific region. Besides that, the RIM inventory will include more than 1,000 detailed information about innovation measures as well as about 1,200 policy documents and organisations’ profiles.

Comparative innovation policy tool

The project will allow on-line comparison of innovation policy approaches and trends at the regional level. It will add a new element to existing regional benchmarking approaches by collecting qualitative indicators on policy and governance, and apply a similar categorisation methodology, that allows a comparison of performance characteristics to policy and governance structures.

Knowledge sharing and good practice dissemination

The activities and deliverables of RIM are designed to support sharing of intelligence on regional innovation policies by highlighting good practices in delivering regional innovation policies. The thematic papers and policy workshops will be tailored towards specialist topics of high relevance for the design, delivery and evaluation of regional innovation policies. The annual EU regional innovation report will include a concise stand-alone addendum on how to design policy intervention in specific regional contexts as well as presenting tools and practical methods for comparing regional innovation policies. The RIM platform will complement and link to various initiatives bringing together communities of policy makers, Structural Fund managers, experts and academics in the field of regional innovation policy.

One-point access to EU and other related activities

The RIM website will offer a user-friendly and interactive access to the different EU analytical activities, which will set out the baseline regional profile of the EU regions, offer a novel approach to regional innovation policy benchmarking, and lead to the preparation of a series of in-depth regional innovation reports, thematic papers, annual EU RIM reports as well as organisation of policy workshops on specialist themes with relevance for innovation at sub-national level. A novel solution is proposed that allows feed-back and feed-in from registered users.

A new platform of communication for innovation stakeholders

One of the interactive features available on the RIM is that users can be contacted through a contact form available in their profiles. According to the settings, the contact form will be either visible to all visitors, registered users only or no one. The contact form allow user to be contacted by email without disclosing their actual email address.

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TUESDAY, 26 OCTOBER 2010: MORNING SESSION

09:15 Welcome by Technopolis

Alasdair Reid, Director, Technopolis Group.

09:25 Welcome address by the European Commission

Katja Reppel, Deputy Head of Unit, Policy Development for Industrial

Innovation (D1) of the European Commission.

09:45 Regional Innovation Monitor: Introduction

Jacek Walendowski, Senior Consultant, Technopolis Group.

10:15 Regional Innovation Monitor: Benchmarking tool

Dr. Henning Kroll, Project Manager, Fraunhofer Institute ISI.

10:45 Networking & coffee break

The workshop will be opened by the co-ordinator of the Regional Innovation Monitor and the European Commission services responsible for the project, in order to provide an outlook of the overall project’s ambitions and recent developments in the area of EU innovation policy. Subsequently, the aim of the two presentations which will be delivered during this session is two-fold. The first presentation will provide an overview of the project main objectives, activities as well as features available on the Regional Innovation Monitor portal. The second presentation will be focused on the Benchmarking tool. In particular, it will explain its concept and demonstrate how this functionality can be used in practice by policy-makers and other regional innovation stakeholders.

TUESDAY, 26 OCTOBER 2010: MORNING SESSION (Continued)

11:15 Drawing a policy map of regional innovation policies: the regional innovation policy profiles.

Alasdair Reid, Director, Technopolis Group.

12:00 User perspective: how to optimise the value added of RIM for regional policy makers?

Round table moderated by Alasdair Reid.

12:30 Lunch

The aim of the above-mentioned presentation is three-fold. Firstly, it will explain the main models of governance of regional innovation policies. Secondly, it will also provide an overview of baseline regional profiles and existing regional measures in support of innovation to find out whether there are any common emerging trends in innovation

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policies in EU regions. Thirdly, the presentation will also discuss the effectiveness of regional innovation policies by providing concrete examples of more and less effective measures. The presentation will follow with the open discussion on how to increase the value added of RIM for regional policy makers?

TUESDAY, 26 OCTOBER 2010: AFTERNOON SESSION

14:00 15 years of regional innovation policy: the case of North Rhine-Westphalia

Dr. Bernhard Iking, Consultant at ZENIT GmbH.

14:30 15 years of regional innovation policy: the case of Wales

Meirion Thomas, Partner and founder of CM International.

15:00 Roundtable discussion

Moderated by Pierre Bourgogne, Technopolis Group.

15:30 Break

In this session, presentations will be given on two the regions (North Rhine-Westphalia and Wales), which ‘trail-blazed’ the development of regional innovation strategies through the pilot regional technology plan initiative launched by the Commission in the mid-1990s. The presentations will particularly focus on ‘back-tracking’ to understand how well the RTPs, RIS, RIS+ etc. that were designed anticipated the changes in the regional innovation systems and how well policies developed have performed in improving the regional innovation systems over the last 15 years.

TUESDAY, 26 OCTOBER 2010: AFTERNOON SESSION (Continued)

16:00 Regional Innovation Policy in Asturias. Current situation and future challenges

Juan Gago, Public Officer for the Asturias Regional Government in Brussels.

16:30 Regional Innovation Policy in Silesia. Current situation and future perspectives

Małgorzata Łącka-Matusiewicz, Director of the European Social Fund Department,

Marshal Office of the Śląskie Region.

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17:00 Conclusions of the day and discussions

18:00 End of meeting, followed by a reception

During this session two presentations will be delivered on the regional innovation policies in the regions of Asturias and Śląskie. The aim of those presentations is to shed light on the current situation, notably existing initiatives in support of innovation activities, their general effectiveness and newly planned initiatives in response to identified regional specific challenges. The focus of the presentations will be on the present and future perspective. The Regional Innovation Monitor Policy Workshop 2010 will be concluded by a general discussion on the following issues. Why some regions grow faster than others? Which policies appear to be the most effective? Why some regions despite attempts to follow examples of successful policies implemented elsewhere fail? What other lessons can we draw from the experience in implementing the regional innovation policies? Those issues together with other questions from the workshop participants will be taken up by a panel of leading experts in the field of regional development and innovation policy.

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FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE REGIONAL INNOVATION MONITOR

Background information

The RIM is a recent initiative of the European Commission, which set out the objective to describe and analyse innovation policy trends across EU regions. RIM analysis is based on methodologies developed in the context of the INNO-Policy Trendchart which covers innovation policies at national level as part of the PRO INNO Europe initiative.

RIM coverage

The scope of RIM include EU-20 Member States: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

Information on and analysis of policy documents, governance structures and existing innovation policy measures in the EU Member States at the NUTS 1 and 2 levels will be provided ensuring a global overview of the state of development of regional policies and strategies on innovation and on the difficulties and successes of their implementation in the regions. Recognising the needs for a more flexible and functional definition of regions, the choice of sub-regional level (below NUTS 1 and 2 levels) and inter- intra-regional cooperation is optional for the network of regional correspondents collecting and analysing the information, if for example, a support measure is considered among the top innovation policy measures in terms of their strategic importance or budgets.

In addition to this, there will be 50 in-depth regional innovation reports prepared for selected regions. The main aim of those reports is to provide a description and analysis of contemporary developments of regional innovation policy, taking into account the specific context of the region as well as general trends. All regional innovation reports will be produced in a standardised way using a common methodological and conceptual framework, in order to allow for horizontal analysis, with a view to preparing the Annual EU Regional Innovation Monitor reports. SAVE THE LINK:

The Regional Innovation Monitor website will be soon available at the Regional Innovation webpage of Europa at the following link: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/innovation/policy/regional-innovation/RIM You will be also able to access it directly via the following link:

http://www.rim-europa.eu

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SPEAKERS:

ALASDAIR REID joined Technopolis Group in February 2004 and is responsible for the Brussels and Tallinn offices. He has more than seventeen years of experience in public policy research in the field of regional economic and enterprise development policies and innovation systems and strategies. During his career, he has provided advice and support to the European Commission, international organisations (OECD, World Bank) and national and regional governments and agencies throughout the European Union and in third countries. He has published a number of articles in peer reviewed journals and book chapters notably focusing on the design and evaluation of regional development and innovation policies and the links with economic trends.

JACEK WALENDOWSKI joined the Belgium office of Technopolis in 2004, as a consultant primarily responsible for carrying out innovation and regional policy studies. Since 2003, he has been the country correspondent for Poland in the framework of the European TrendChart on Innovation project of the European Commission (DG Enterprise). Recently, he has been involved in various other European projects in the area of innovation. From May 2001 to August 2004, he worked for an international consultancy (ADE S.A., Belgium), where he took part in projects covering the areas of innovation, research and development in the SME sector (notably a study for DG Enterprise on Innovation Policy in seven candidate countries in 2002-2003).

DR. HENNING KROLL is a Researcher and Project Manager at the Fraunhofer Institute Systems and Innovation Research. His research interests include the comparative analysis of regional innovation systems in Germany and Europe, the design and implementation of regional innovation and technology policy, as well as the development of regional research and innovation indicators.

DR. BERNHARD IKIN has a degree in Economics. He joined ZENIT in 2000 where he works as senior consultant. His areas of specialisation include technology and structural policy as well as regional policy. He conducted various evaluation projects, mostly analysing the efficiency of structural funding programmes. Recently he was responsible for the methodological part of the project “EuroPeer_SME, a EU-funded project under the 6th Framework programme that analysed good practice support measures in R&D promotion in SMEs throughout Europe. Currently, he is working in the Advisory group of the innovation management programme “Go-Inno” of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and as a member of the Expert Validation Platform in the TAKE-IT UP initiative of the European Commission (DG Enterprise and Industry).

MEIRION THOMAS Meirion Thomas is a partner in the CM International Group and heads its UK office which he established in 1997. Meirion has over 25 years experience in regional development where his expertise covers a range of innovation, strategy and organisational development interests. Meirion is also the Director of Innovation at Cardiff Business School.

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Meirion has worked with many different types of public and private sector organisations in the area of innovation developing a strong expertise and understanding of the approaches needed to place innovation at the heart of economic policy and embed a strategic approach to the management of innovation within companies and organisations.

Meirion has been instrumental in developing many ground-breaking approaches to regional innovation. In the mid-1990s, Meirion initiated and directed the Wales Regional Technology Plan, the first regional-level innovation strategy piloted with support from the European Commission. Later, Meirion worked within the RIS-RITTS Network and PARTNER Innovation Network with CM International and has advised and led consultancy support to over 25 regional innovation strategies across the EU as well as in the USA and Southern Africa.

PIERRE BOURGOGNE is currently a consultant (cairn-innovation), associated to Technopolis. He is expert in regional innovation policy. After 13 years in industrial R&D, he has worked for more than 25 years in innovation management and policy. He was Director of Innovation at the Regional Council of Lorraine for seven years. In particular, he was in charge of projects related to the regional innovation system among companies, technological intermediaries, academic start-ups clusters and poles of competitiveness (super clusters) as well as being responsible for strategic intelligence, knowledge management and for introducing the Region of Lorraine into various European networks, programmes and projects.

JUAN GAGO studied law in Spain, France and England. In addition, he obtained a Masters Degree in European Business Law during his studies in Cambridge. He worked as a lawyer and provided legal counsel to businesses and public authorities in legal matters related to EU law. His focus is on innovation, business promotion and regional cohesion policy. He is currently working as a public officer for the Asturias Regional Government in Brussels.

MAŁGORZATA ŁĄCKA-MATUSIEWICZ has been engaged professionally for the last 10 years in the area of the European Funds. Initially, she was dealing with pre-accession programmes. Later, right after Poland’s accession to the European Union, she became responsible for the implementation of the European Social Fund (ESF) at the level of regional self-government. Since 2007, she has been performing the function of the Director of the ESF Department of the Marshal’s Office of Silesian Voivodship – Intermediate Body managing the ESF.

The Voivodship’s self-government holds the ESF total allocation of over €738m for the 2007-2013 programming period within the Human Capital Operational Programme. These resources are used to support employment, social integration, education, development of workforce and enterprises and realisation of Regional Strategy of Innovation which has been managed by the ESF Department since 2009.