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To strengthen the innovative capacity and competitiveness within the BSR

Sven Gunnar Edlund Senior Advisor

VINNOVA

(The Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems)

Coordinator Research and Innovation within EUSBSR

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The EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Macro Region

FOUR OVERALL OBJECTIVES:• To make the Baltic Sea region an environmentally CLEAN place• To make the Baltic Sea region a PROSPEROUS place• To make the Baltic Sea region an ACCESSIBLE and ATTRACTIVE

place• To make the Baltic Sea region a SAFE and SECURE place

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Actionplan with 15 action areas

7. To exploit the full potential of the

region in research and innovation

Coordinated by Sweden and Poland

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Flagship projects in Chap 7 Research & Innovation

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Innovation, Clusters & SME Networks (BSR Stars)

Sweden (Vinnova)/ Lithuania

2 Baltic Sea Fund for Innovation & Research

The Skåne Region

3 Services innovation Lithuania/Finland

4 Innovation in Health & Life sciences

Lithuania/Germany

5 Science link for research infrastructure

Sweden (Swedish Research Council)

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WHY INCREASED TRANSNATIONAL COOPERATION ON INNOVATION WITHIN BSR?

Countries grow with neighbors that grow Larger Home Market for products, services and knowledge. Specially

important for SMEsMost BSR-countries are small with limited resources in a global comparison. But together, BSR are 100 million people with a number of leading companies/universities/clusters

There are potential that BSR can be a global recognized strong environment for research and innovation in a number of areas

Recognized brand names to attract capital, people and companiesThree logics:

1. A stronger value chain can be offered within the macro region2. A larger critical mass in research and innovation3. Complementary competences creates innovative capacity

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Baltic Sea Region − A global competitive innovation HUB!

BSR Stars purpose is to create a number of world leading innovation hubsin the Baltic Sea region by linking strong Research & Innovation milieus, Clusters and SME networks

BSR STARSVISION

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Programme components structures

F. Programme management and knowledge development

Impact and results of programme

Strengths and innovation power BSR Macro region

C. Networks of SMEs

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OPPORTUNITY:Demand driven way of working

with grand challenges& strong BSR

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VISION:Global market lead within areas of Global market lead within areas of

grand challengesgrand challengesIntegrated & accessible resourceIntegrated & accessible resource

base in the macro regionbase in the macro regionStrenghtening

the resource Basein the BSR

by linking strong competencies,

actors and financing

Strategic alliances & collaborations to address Grand Challenges

− FDI and branding− Capacity building

C. Networks of SMEs

B. Transnational Clusters

A. Innovation & research milieus

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Policies

Sustainability

Policies

Cleantech and Future Energy

Wellbeing and Health

Future Transport

Digital business and services, and ubiquitous solutions

Safety and security

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Prosperity

Governance & Financing,

knowledge management

Organizational Structure in BSR STARS

Project Management VINNOVA & Ministry of economics Lithuania &

taskforce leaders

Research and innovation

Sweden, VINNOVA

Cluster

Finland

SME-networkLithuania,/

Iceland

FDI /Branding Latvia

Capacity-building

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High Level group All countries are represented,

ministry & agencies,

International expert team,

lead by VINNOVA,

Strategic Alliances

Development of BSR Stars

EU schemesNational and Regional

financing

Innovation activities

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New EU schemes

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BSR InnoNet & BSR_CBP

FP6 & ERDF

*Funded by Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007-2013

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LIONS - Developing SME-networking services in the Baltic Sea Region

Sander van der MolenLithuanian Innovation Centre

LIONS SMEs need to become part of a larger ‘innovation eco-

system’ in order to stay competitive and compete globally

Large firms can orchestrate such global ‘innovation eco-systems’ themselves (e.g. SIEMENS, IKEA, NOKIA)

SMEs face barriers in the creation of such innovation eco-systems and need support

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BSR Stars - EU 2020; Innovation Union (IU)

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BSR Stars - applies already now the principles of Innovation Union 2020- address Grand Challenges- challenge-/demand driven innovation - smart specialization - broad view on innovation. Public actors should be involved- innovation procurement- transnational-/transregional cooperation- “alignment” of programs/instruments/funding

Other activities:

Expression of Interest

Title Project Coordinator

Eco4Life BioCon Valley

Baltic Sea Region Programme 3rd call (Kick-off held 27 Jan 2011)HealthPort ScanBalt

South Baltic Programme (kick-off held Nov 2010)

SBHR Consortia building Application Project

financing

Baltic Sea Region Programme 4th callBiobaltica GdanskDigiPath 2.0

Ageing To be decided

Various Various

ScanBalt Health Region Project PipelineWeb www.scanbalt.org/projects/scanbalt+health+region

-ScanBalt Health Region Position Paper published Feb 2011 „Healthy Ageing: From biological fundamentals to clinical solutions“ ScanBalt Forum 2011 21-24 Sept 2011 ”Towards balanced regional development and smart specialization between clusters”. Discussion, reporting and coordination in ScanBalt Health Region a major topic

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Flagship 7.2 “Create a Baltic Sea Funding for Innovation and Research”

Ms. Marie-Louise Eriksson, PhDBusiness Development Manager

Department of Economic Development and Innovation

Region Skåne

The Aim of 7.2 BSR Fund To develop financial instruments that promote

transnational and transregional innovation and research

support the coordination of a) existing (2007-2013) and new funding (2014-

forward) for innovation and research at the EU, national and regional levels as well as private funding

b) EU2020 strategy and the Innovation union strategy

Funding principles- currently no ear-marked funding to EUSBSR- funding of projects from existing programs- funding engineering

Experiences so far from funding engineering;- often, project requires 10+ separat decisions to be funded - one No may cause big difficulties for the whole project - funding programs not used to fund a part of a project- different deadlines for submitting applications- The total administration volume tends to be huge, due to

10+ different applications and different guidelines and time schedules for reporting

Funding principles during 2014-2020 must make it easier to fund transnational projects in EUSBSR

There should be an international dimension/strategy in all programmes and projects. BSR platforms constitute important parts in such international strategies

The macro region concept should be integrated in programmes at EU, national and regional level

Support the idea of alignment of funding This calls for dialogue and coordination between EUBSR

strategy and those responsible for the OPs both within national and territorial structural funds.

Ambition: Part of program budgets allocated to transnational/transregional projects

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Conclude by citing :

A position paper developed by he BSR Stars flagship programme which stresses the importance of the macro-regional approach as part of the implementation of research and innovation policies (e.g. Innovation Union Flagship initiative) and the EU 2020 strategy. Key messages are: Firstly, the macro-regional policy approach has the potential to provide new innovative ways of bringing together resources and capabilities from different countries and building world-class innovation networks and strategic alliances.  Secondly, transnational cooperation in innovation can help to build internationally acknowledged innovation hubs that induce brain gain instead of permanently losing expertise to other attractive innovation environments outside of Europe.

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Thirdly, transnational cooperation will enable less developed regions to have better access to global value chains and to widen their innovation capacity and pool of R&D. These linkages strengthen also their capacity to utilise EU R&D and other international funding schemes.  Fourthly, the macro-regional approach can accelerate the internationalisation of SMEs which seems to be a major obstacle for most EU countries. Our view is that the transnational cooperation can accelerate the internationalisation of SMEs by reducing administrative burdens to join international R&D and cluster projects and by enlarging the home market for SMEs.

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Thank you!