Plenary Closing

Richard Tuffs

Director

ERRIN

www.errin.eu

WIRE 2016

Field visits

Brokerage event

Networking

Presentations

Dinner

Discussions

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Why WIRE?

THE annual opportunity to take stock of regional research and innovation (Robert-Jan Smits)

Research and innovation on top of the political agenda

Regional viewpoint of research and innovation

Why WIRE? (2)

Where are we...where are we going?

Discussion on what regions can control…

Discussion on the future:

– Horizon 2020 Interim Evaluation

– Cohesion policy post 2020

– Synergies

Developing a shared dialogue and common viewpoint…

WIRE 2016

Strategies and synergies

Global value chains

Art of collaboration

Public intervention

Hosted by…

OECD & UNU-MERIT

Vanguard Initiative

Business perspective

EUROCITIES /ENoLL

TCI

PEOPLE

Plenary 1

Regionomics

Sharing

Place

Ambition

Triple helix

Vision

Path dependency

Vanguard Initiative

Alliances

Growth not an end in itself

Research and innovation

Research and innovation on top of the political agenda

€75 bn in H2020

€80 bn in ESIF

‘You’ve never had it so good’

Closing the gap between cohesion, research and innovation

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Research and innovation It’s all about people…

From smart to sustainable

– Vulnerability index (Lambert van Nistelrooij)

Need to remove the silos and combine regional and city ecosystems

– Is the city the best place for solutions?

– Optimum size for innovation

– Smart specialisation and smart cities

Cohesion vs Competiveness = Territorial development

– Concentration, Contacts, Connection, Cooperation…

Smart to strong to adaptive (Eindhoven)

Regional innovation strategies

Bottom up process

Entrepreneurial discovery process (ongoing)

Cross-border connections

– Value chains

– Macro regions

More attention to start ups and scale ups

More attention on research projects to link to regional innovation ecosystem

SME perspective

Own region for contacts and local ecosystem

Insights from other regions invaluable

Barriers

– Language – definitions ‘community care’, ‘social innovation’ …

– Culture ( trust and confidence and open innovation – Holst Centre)

– Interoperability

• Technical, regulatory

Overview Regional innovation ecosystems – an absolute requirement

= S3 + synergies – silos

= combining funding and instruments

Research and innovation increasingly place based but optimum size…

More funding required, we don’t invest enough and Member State cuts – 100,000 proposals in Horizon 2020

Role of EU vs Member States and the role of regions

From triple to quadruple helix

Citizen engagement and vision

Regions proud to be partners in Europe…contact, collective, cooperative…competitive…

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Sessions

Strategies and synergies

Global value chains

Art of collaboration

Public intervention

Strategies and Synergies

Industrial policy focused on regions

Smart Cluster Partnerships

Beware a plethora of platforms

EIT

KICs

EIP

JPI

JTI

PPP

KETs

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Strategies…

Seeking opportunities

Urban Rural

Strategies and synergies

Strategies and

synergies

Challenge driven

Clusters

Opportunity driven

Place based – Lyon and Coventry University

Synergies involve a range of processes: upstream; downstream; combined

‘strategic’ serendipity

What can the region influence?

From smart to sustainable

Seal of excellence – e.g. Lombardy

Public sector innovation – fear of failure and risk adverse

Global value chains

Stronger engagement of policy makers with industry

Needs analysis

Stronger triple helix engagement

– Industry, government and education

Collaboration is the new competitive edge

– ‘value is knowledge and knowledge is value’

– Need to pay more attention to intangibles

Social innovation for concrete problem solving

The art of collaboration

Platform vs cluster thinking – from heavy industry to heavy thinking! (Tampere)

Platforms

– New combinations of knowledge

– Faster value creation

– Communities as orchestrators

– Capability building

– New role for the public sector – co-creation

The art of collaboration

Build PPPs (Asturias)

Identify and collaborate with anchor companies and develop local supply chains

Identify competitive advantage and find new ways of collaboration e.g. Wetsus

– University knowledge without the university

– Bring the knowledge to the region

– Attract FDI and create spins offs

– Co-create talent

The art of collaboration Open innovation

Open R&D from Lithuania – small companies merged into a wider open brand

Open to the world and ‘science diplomacy’

Holst Centre

– Sharing pre-competitive innovation

– International excellence with local impact

Ideon

– Generating ideas for others

– Enhancing ecosystems

The art of collaboration

Open innovation

Public intervention

Goal to improve business framework conditions

– Applied research, connectivity, relationships

– Strong engagement in triple helix

Support for clusters

– Building knowledge bridges

Personal commitment is key, collaboration takes time

Public intervention

Stronger engagement with communities

Need also to consider the citizen dimension

– Social innovation/ cities

More transnational collaboration

Challenges

– Speed – regulation/policies slow down adaptation

– Legacy – adapting

– Readiness – are we ready for smart solutions

– Open data – ‘new oil’ but oil has to be refined and distributed and needs other technologies…

OECD and UNU-MERIT

Increasing disparities between top and bottom regions

Country productivity growth and innovation is stagnating especially at top and bottom

– old data/unreliable regional data?

More attention on global value chains and intangibles

Is regional policy working?

Cost of non-Europe…

Quality of governance

Vanguard Initiative Building on trusted relationships

Short-term wins vs long-term engagement

Building relationships takes time

How do we move from contact (Brussels-based) to contract (industry based)

Vanguard Initiative

Building the network requires a shift of partners and responsibilities (public to get off the ground and then a shift to private to develop projects)

Coordination costs (public) project benefits (private)

Expectation management – policy impact may be more than economic impact

New paths, building the road as you drive

Business perspective

Open Innovation and sharing road maps

Fast access to leading-edge knowledge, flexibility to adjust to changing business needs, affordable solutions through the total product life cycle. Sharing risk and rewards

Innovative products get built by a network, and regional partnerships play a crucial role

3D-printing

– No welding, no warehouse…

– Design freedom and weight reduction

– Print them when you need them…

Eurocities and ENoLL Eindhoven

– We’re in it together…

– Doing things together, making things together…

Krakow

– Social capital is essential

– Develop a neutral playground (Tech Park)

– Co-creation works but it takes time..

Eurocities and ENoLL

Helsinki

– Moving to open collaborative innovation

– Start ups speeding up innovation and more disruptive innovation

– City stimulating via platforms

I-Minds

– Smart cities

• Infrastructure

• Information

• Innovation

• Integration

TCI Network

Whose reality?

Developing a dialogue to find a common language and a common vision…

TCI Network (2)

How to scale up cooperation? From cluster to regional strategy…

S3 living document – quadruple helix

Distributed leadership (Basque region - interdepartmental committee and steering groups involving different clusters)

Which actors step forward when government steps back?

How to engage civil society?

People perspective

Fablabs in Western Balkans

– Do it yourself, do it together…

Stuttgart – how to welcome international professionals

– ‘welcome buddies’ collaborating with civil society actors

BQ Portal German database - sharing information on a skills portal of foreign diplomas and competences

Conclusion

Ecosystems – regional innovation ecosystems key

– S3/Clusters/Platforms

– ‘It’s the whole thing’ (Helsinki)

Human focus – people! ‘Humanistic technology’. More

attention to the citizen and move from triple helix to quadruple helix – social innovation and the city

Value of WIRE – stocktaking – where are we at? Continual

monitoring (Sabel – Smart Regions). What do we need? Challenges and opportunities. Inspiration and exchange of best practice from a regional perspective

Thanks

Organisers

– Concept and implementation

– Speakers

– Moderators

– Rapporteurs

– Staff

Commission

– Continuity of what is a key conference for regions

Goodbye

….Now boarding for KSC