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EFFECTIVE REGIONAL INNOVATION
SYSTEMS SUBGROUP
Workshop II: Activities & Need orientation
Members regions involved: Rhône-Alpes, East Sweden & Crete
23rd of May 2007, Ennis, Shannon
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Introduction
Activities & Need orientation• Description
• Identification of key elements
• Regional Case Studies– Background
– Challenge
– Solutions
– Results
– Linkages
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ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITIES = focus on the primary means to make companies innovate and to make entrepreneurs create and develop innovative start-ups. Special methods for incentives for companies and academia are seen to be important.
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Key Elements
Identified key elements• Financing start-ups without loss of independency • Innovator and entrepreneurship, commercial requests
incubators, coaching, mentoring, competences at boards• Risk Capital for new product and services (grants, loans to
be repaid after success), owners capital (shares)• Fit for purpose financial systems • Physical and virtual infrastructure • University based innovation champions• Business based innovation champions • Financing patents (and to communicate the winners)• Low entry costs• Innovation and entrepreneurship (commercial requests)
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Activities – key elements
Some regional examples
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Key Elements – Regional Examples
Financing start-ups without loss of independency:
SPINCRETE - Regional VC in Crete
• Established by Commercial Chamber of Crete, the Cretan Cooperative Bank & Univesity of Crete
• A need to bolster entrepreneurship in Greece• Encourage entrepreneurship & assist the development and
growth of SME’s across the entire range of productive activity
• This new fund invests in inovative SMEs, reinforces local economic development, new jobbs and added value in the region
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Key Elements – Regional Examples
Innovation and entrepreneurship, commercial requests incubators, coaching, mentoring:
Mjärdevi Science Park & GROWLINK, (SE)• Strong incubators as driving forces• Mjärdevi uses the regional GROWLINK-model as the catalyst
for stimulation • GROWLINK - optimising the services available to companies
and ensuring that business ideas with great potential receive appropriate support during their different development stages.
• GROWLINK is structured into three steps following the establishment and development of a start-up: idea, start and growth.
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Key Elements – Regional Examples
Risk Capital for new product and services (grants, loans to be repaid after success), owners capital (shares):
The Fund of Innovation of the Department of the Rhone • Grant to innovative projects presented by companies situated in
the Rhone a support in the form of loans without interests, granted on credits from the Department.
• The fund granted till the end of year 2006, a total of 343 loans for a global 7,8 million euros amount.
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Key Elements – Regional Examples
Fit for purpose financial systems:
PRAXE PROGRAM, Greece• Introduced to assist spin-off firms from universities and research
institutes.• Challenge: The exploitation and commercial utilisation of existing
research results stemming from research projects, either in the form of the provision of services or exploitation licences, or by the creation of knowledge-intensive business activity (the foundation of spin-off companies).
• Preparatory activities before the establishment of the firm, such as experimental development, patenting, drafting of a business plan, search for potential private investors undertaken by the
researchers and their institutions
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Key Elements – Regional Examples
Physical and virtual infrastructure:
HELP-FORWARD NETWORK www.help-forward.gr
• HELP-FORWARD offers Technology Transfer brokerage services to Greek companies and Research Institutions and provides information, mediation and advisory services to all stages of Technology Transfer and Exploitation of Research Results.
– funding opportunities identification,
– detection of technological needs,
– technology watch and evaluation,
– partner search
– technology transfer negotiations support
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Key Elements – Regional Examples
Business based innovation champions• The French finance law for 2007, integrates the creation of a
“status of the company of growth “• The status "gazelles" is based in particular on three key
measures:• a mechanism of frost of the company tax, allowing to neutralize all or any of
the increase of this tax during the period of growth.• a gap of the payment of the contributions of the employees recently
engaged, to avoid that the new hirings press on the finance of the company at the crucial moment.
• the possibility of benefiting from the early refund of the Research Tax Credit for companies benefiting from this tax credit, to allow them to benefit at once from the finance necessary for the investments in the innovation.
• 2000 SMEs took benefit from the “gazelles” status in 2006
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NEED ORIENTATION
NEED-ORIENTATION: The research within the framework of CIRCLE is conducted under two long-term base funding:
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Need Orientation - Key Elements
Identified key elements
1. Knowledge about the firm needs and processes
2. Client oriented
3. Awareness and innovation concerns
4. Proximity to client
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Key Elements – Regional Examples
Identification of regional needs
VINNOVA - The Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems
• State authority that aims to promote growth and prosperity throughout Sweden.
• Funds needs-driven research required by a competitive business and industrial sector and a flourishing society, and to strengthen the networks that are such a necessary part of this work.
• VINNOVA are running a number of programmes focussing funding needs-driven research, one example is the project “New tools for health” in Östergötland. VINNOVA supports this action with some 6 million € during a ten year period.
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Key Elements – Regional Examples
Client Oriented
Regional Innovation Poles(RIP) in Greece• To strengthen regional competitiveness through the
strengthening of research and of technological and innovative capabilities of the regional innovation system.
• The creation of the Pole is organized around a limited number of sectors or technologies. The aim is to create a critical mass of stakeholders, technologies and innovative ideas so that the region will become competitive in some selected fields.
• 5 regional innovation poles are about to start in mid- 2007
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Key Elements – Regional Examples
Knowledge and awareness – systematic and strategic identification of regional needs
Hälsans nya verktyg (New tools for health)• A regional initiative for growth with focus on health and
health related business • The main motives are a great and growing market potential
and a suitable regional profile with roots in the academic society, the business environment and public organisations.
• The primary objective is to generate growth in the region through a successive introduction of the new products on the great and growing international market.
• The operations are co-ordinated in a member association with currently some 80 member organisations - companies as well as public organisations, including SAAB, the municipalities in the county, the Östsam regional federation, trade unions, Linköping University and research companies.
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