Our experience in RISBest practices and transfer of know-how

RIS MAZOVIA

November 24th, 2005Frédérique Pannier

José A. Álvarez

Our experienceOur experienceMeta Group has been involved in RIS projects from 90’s. We have selected the following set of useful examples as best practices:

RIS UMBRIA (Italy)

SLORITTS (Slovenia)

RIS SICILY (Italy)

RIS approachRIS approachRIS as a dynamic process of reflection and exchange

RIS as a process of continuous and increasing involvement of local, regional and international players

A key action to integrate regional actors and build consensus

RIS is not a standard process

Other RIS experiences are useful to:

Better understand the whole process

Have a long term visualization of possible difficulties

Share successful actions

RIS UMBRIARIS UMBRIAPopulation: 825.000 inhabitantsArea: 8.500 sq.kmsMain cities: Perugia, Terni Main sectors: Tourism, food products, textiles, clothing, graphics and publishing industry, iron and steel,machinery, chemicals, wood.

A scattered and very traditional SME’s system

An important public intervention to promote and support regional infrastructures for innovation.

An unclear and fragmented public supply of services for innovation

RIS UMBRIARIS UMBRIA the methodology

Three connected to key components of innovation (awareness, technology transfer, services and interregional strategy)

Two to the poles of excellence (inward investment and new business creation)

Two on transversal issues (training and financing)

Seven working groups were organised in order to identify needs, validate analysis, define actions and build consensus.

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RIS UMBRIARIS UMBRIA strategy’s axes

Creation, development, attraction: the three streams of technology based development and its percentages regarding resources.

Support to innovation________50%

New technology based firms__30%

Inward investment__________20%

RIS UMBRIARIS UMBRIA main results

The current financing organisation GEPAFIN

A regional agency for innovation called «Science Park of Umbria»

A regional economic development agency Sviluppumbria.

Rationalising the supply system: only three organisations for a more effective “industrial” policy

RIS UMBRIARIS UMBRIA main results FIRST, Umbria seed fund was launched

FIRST aims at supporting innovative business ideas and

companies in their start up phase.

FIRST initial size: 3.716.667,00€

The fund was created with European structural funds

Nowadays, FIRST is going through the evaluation phase of

ventures with potential to invest on

SLORITTSSLORITTS the region of SloveniaPopulation: 2 million inhabitantsArea: 20.273 sq.kmsNational GDP: Services 61.5 %, Industry 30%, Construction 5.5%, Agriculture 3%Main cities: Ljubljana, Maribor and Celje Main industry: automotive, tool, transport and wood

As far as innovation is concerned, initiatives are project based, there are no long term actions focusing on strategic key issues.

Strong importance is given to information (newsletters, seminar etc.), very little is done in terms of awareness raising (including entrepreneurship and R&D results valorisation).

Research is not communicating with the market: Universities and Research centres are not used to have commercial relationships with the business sector, focus on research and education (innovation = bridging research to the market).

SLORITTSSLORITTS overall objectives To increase the innovation capacity of Slovenia as an EU region

with all of its statistical regions equally developed.

Operational goals To integrate and connect regional initiatives

To achieve a “nuclear reaction” by means of reaching the critical mass

To increase the innovation capacity of the economy

To start up the “engine” which would propel and draw together all key players in Slovenia

To enhance the current legislation in order to better achieve support for innovations

To encourage the joining of small and medium-sized enterprises into clusters in the area of conventional products and services as well as high technologies

To initiate a business/technological cooperation between the regions in Slovenia

To establish a key range of services for providing innovation support for small and medium-sized enterprises

SLORITTSSLORITTS the “umbrella” concept

Its innovative approach on strategy formulation makes of

SLORITTS an interesting example for other RIS

Innovation is not only technology, but mainly economic

development.

Three ‘umbrellas’ :

TECHNOLOGY TOURISM HEALTH

SLORITTSSLORITTS the “umbrella” concept

Each of these umbrellas cluster local stakeholders around a set of measures ranging from service provision, to infrastructures, to human capital development, which will be turned into action using Structural funds resources

Technology umbrella: Focuses on the development of business zones and the modernisation of the innovation environment.

Tourism umbrella: Aims to involve as many Slovenian tourism actors as possible and development of new, integrated tourism products and integrated information systems

Health care umbrella: Aims at improving the standard of national healthcare and at offering specialist services that can be marketed abroad

RIS SICILYRIS SICILY the region

Population: 5.054 million inhabitantsArea: 301.316 sq.kmsIndustry: 18.9% of the workforceServices: 68.6%Agriculture: 12.5%

“Scientific research” over “innovation”

Boundary line between research and market

Relevant presence of public research vs a weak entrepreneurial system

RIS SICILYRIS SICILY main objectives

Establishes the guidelines for a proper environment for innovation.

Determine a territorial system based on knowledge and able to better take advantage of material and immaterial resources present in the region.

RIS SICILYRIS SICILY objective-tree overview

Innovation capacity of the existent regional system

Stimulating innovation within existing SMEs

Improving Innovation interface

Knowledge valorisation process

Supporting the creation of knowledge based ventures

Exploiting research results

Tools: awareness raising campaigns, incubator empowerment, scouting pilot projects, facilitation the access to risk capital market, connection market-research, creation of seed capital fund and IPR fund.

From main objectives to actions

Development of the interface system

Scouting pilot project

Incubators empowerment

Awareness and training on entrepreneurship

Testing and prototyping laboratories

Creation and strengthening of TTOs in universities

Creation of an IPR fund

Seed capital funds

Connect research with the market

Incentive patenting and know-how commercialization

Improve the activities for innovation diffusion throughout the whole Sicilian territory

Qualify the supply of technological services aimed at matching market needs and inward investment initiatives

Sensitive researchers and students on spin outs as mean for research results valorisation

Qualify location factors addressed to SMEs based on technologies

Increase the rate of NTBFs creation through the access to risk capital

To initiate the process of commercial exploitation of scientific results gained by Sicilian researchers and stimulate the interest of external operators

Improve the regional innovation interface system

Support the creation of knowledge intensive firms

Promote the exploitation of research realized in Sicily

Improve innovation capacity and absorption of the existent Sicilian economic system

Set the conditions for the growth of the productivity and the

entrepreneurial development in SICILY

ACTIONS OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVES MID=TERM OBJECTIVES

FINAL OBJECTIVES

SMEs research, innovation and TT cooperative projects

Stages and training of graduated students/researchers into SMEs willing to introduce an innovation

Creation and management of knowledge circles

Promotion of ETI and stimulation of collaboration among SMEs

Promotion of research, TT and innovation within Sicilian SMEs and support of territorial!sectoral networking and clustering processes

Promotion of SMEs’ technological, organizational, managerial innovation and matching of market needs, via the insertion of

Diffuse innovation among existing SMEs

1,63%

57,66%

2,18%

4,08%

15,98%

0,82%

2,72%

5,44%

1,91%

3,21%

4,36%

61,48%

20,06%

8,98%

9,48%

81,54%

18,46%

Rejuvenate and diversify theeconomy of Sicily through knowledge valorization processes (start ups creation and licensing)

It is not a study but an action

Its necessary to involve decision makers and…

Promoting their participation since the very beginning

of the exercise

Use local organisations/firms to maintain and develop

contacts

Lessons learnt about RISLessons learnt about RIS

Lessons learnt about RISLessons learnt about RIS

Involve SME’s and their associations and use working group

Look for discussion and debate

“It is not difficult to learn new things, but to quit old habits”

thanks for your attention

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