Sven Gunnar Edlund Senior Advisor VINNOVA
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Innovation and Research within the BSR Strategy
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
Lead Partner
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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 SMEs
Most 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 companies
Three logics:
1. A stronger value chain can be offered within the macro region
2. A larger critical mass in research and innovation
3. 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 developmentF. Programme management and knowledge development
Impact and results of programme
Strengths and innovation power BSR Macro region
C. Networks of SMEs
B. World classTransnational
Clusters
A. World Class Research &
Innovation milieus
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OPPORTUNITY:Demand driven way of working
with grand challenges& strong BSR
capabilities
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 region
Strenghteningthe resource Base
in the BSR by linking strong competencies,
actors and financing
Strenghteningthe resource Base
in the BSR by linking strong competencies,
actors and financing
Strategic alliances & collaborations to address Grand Challenges
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
Accessibility and A
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Prosperity
Governance & Financing,
knowledge management
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,
High Level group All countries are represented,
ministry & agencies,
International expert team,
lead by VINNOVA,
Strategic AlliancesStrategic Alliances
Development of BSR Stars
EU schemesNational and Regional
financing
Innovation activities
andresources
2006-2009 2010-2011 2012 2013 2014
New EU schemes
Different financing schemes levered, depending on the type of transnational activity
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The next critical milestone is the implementation of the
StarDust project
Natl and Nordic
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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 Molen
Lithuanian 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
ApplicationProject
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!