:Experience and practice from EU projects on innovation policy

René Wintjes (UNU-MERIT) 1st Innovation Dialogue Forum, WBC-INCO.NET8-9 November 2010, Becici, Montenegro

Lessons from selection of own experiences/projects From: Development of National Innovation

Strategies for Bulgaria and Poland, before accession

The positive power of ‘showcases’, especially when statistics are poor

Involve both science ànd industry in …council, platform, dialogue forum

INNO-Learning Platform2 pilots to promote trans-national innovation policy cooperation across Europe. Twinning between

innovation agencies, transfer of practices (SE-LT)

Peer review between agencies (NL,BE: HU)Lessons from both: - importance of personal visits

and exchange; involve high and low leveldifficulty of different context; Importance of evaluations

ETEPS project: Regional impact of technological change in 2020

Skilled industrial East Europe

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P roductivity

P ublic knowledge

P rivate technology

Activity

Skilled workers

Creative workers

High-tech manufacturing

Knowledge-intensive services

Public knowledge centres

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P roductivity

P ublic knowledge

P rivate technology

Activity

Skilled workers

Creative workers

High-tech manufacturing

Knowledge-intensive services

Pink: Metropolitan knowledge-intensive services regions

Yellow: Knowledge absorbing regions

Red: Public knowledge centres Purple: Skilled industrial Eastern

EU regions Turquoise: High-tech regions Green: Skilled technology

regions Blue: Traditional Southern EU

regions

Top 10 technologies for 2010, versus top-10 promissing sectors

ICT, internet and computer technologies

Alternative energy technologies

Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, and Biochemistry

Nanotechnology and nanomaterials

Process-, control, automation, and robotics

New materials

Health technologies and Life sciences

Computing, mathematics

Environmental technologies

Alternative automotive technologies

Research and development (contract research)

Education

Transport, storage and communication services

Motor vehicles

Hotels and restaurants

Health and social work

Agriculture, forestry, fishing

Pharmaceuticals

Food products, beverages and tobacco

Machine-tools, special-purpose machinery

Computer and data services

FP7 Gprix: evaluation innovation policy for SME’s in traditional sectors

One of three related FP projects on SME innovation policy

Lesson: include CIS questions in survey’s; We should have added a WBC-partner.

Innovation Vouchers

Policy invention form Limburg (NL), evaluated the pilot and after 11 years

It is a great tool to promote international cooperation

High impact scores of Vouchers on cooperation (factor analysis)

Voucher (n=19)

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Strategie

DrempelverlagendSamenw erking

buitenland

Samenw erking NL

Mix Instrumenten (n=28)

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Strategie

DrempelverlagendSamenwerking

buitenland

Samenwerking NL

Monitoring progress towards ERA

Potential for joint programming; Importance of neighbours

4 specific ERA topics

National mobility initiatives Transnational strategic partnerships and

opening up of universities, to foreign researchers or collaboration

Opening-up of national R&D programmes, for the participation of foreign European-based researchers

Joint R&D initiatives

Cases of Joint R&D initiativesContent Geographic scope

Transborder Bilateral Multilateral EU+multilateral

1.Mutual information, coordination activities

Austrian Science and Research

Liaison offices

UK ESRC bilateral research

agreements

Nordforsk

International Visegrad Fund

2.Researchers Mobility funding

3.Transnational R&D programmes

Knowledge with Neighbours (NL-DE-BE)

Swedish-Finnish Wood

Material Programme

Joint programme

genomics plant-KBBE (FR-DE-

ES-PT)

Austrian participation in JTI Artemis;

Dutch participation in

Eurostars 4.Sharing infrastructures

Franco-German AWIPEV base

Nordic Optical Telescope Scientific

Association

5.Joint funding of R&D centres

Knowledge with Neighbours (NL-DE-BE)

French-German cooperation

programme on cancer research

Nordforsk Centres of Excellence

Thank you

For questions or comments, please contact:

René Wintjesr.wintjes@merit.unimaas.nlTel +31 433884474http://www.merit.unu.edu/

UNU-MERIT - Maastricht UniversityPO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, the

Netherlands