< 75 %

PIB/habitantIndice UE27=100

75-90 %

> 90 %

Towards an S3 strategy for:Northern France – The Lille Région

Sevilla, 31 January 2012[Jean-Marie Pruvot & Jean-Christophe Godest (Regional Innovation Agency)Yannick Giry (Regional Council)

Introduction

• Nord-Pas de Calais :

+ 4 million inhabitants, 86 billion € GDP;

+ 7 Universities, 28 graduate schools (business and engineering);+ an exceptional location between London, Brussels and Paris

3rd purchasing power in the world, in a 300km radius, behind Tokyo (1rst) and Cologne;

+ Industrial tradition;

+ diversity and youthful of the population;

– 1998 RITTS– 2000 Regional Program for Innovation and Research Valorisation– 2003 first innovation portal : www.jinnove.com

– 2006 Regional Scheme for Economical Development (RSED) driven by regional Council with local communities

– 2008 moving technological network to innovation noetwork "J'innove en Nord-Pas de Calais";

– 2009 A Regional Innovation Strategy (RIS) in the frame of the RSED

A political willingness to change :

Régional thematics selected :

• EA = Entrepreneurial activity SA = Scientific activity CC = Competitivity clusters

Railway transport (Itrans CC)

Health-Nutrition-Food (NSL and Aquimer CC)

Commerce of the future (Picom CC)

EA + SA

EA + SA

EA + SA

1) Become a reference, on the European level, in a limited number of innovative sectors chosen on the basis of their scientific excellence and their economic importance for the Nord-Pas de Calais region :

Régional thematics selected :

• EA = Entrepreneurial activity SA = Scientific activity CC = Competitivity clusters

2) Foster, through innovation, the sectors in the restructuring process:

Automotive

Buildings and eco-construction

Mechanical engineering

Advanced materials (MAUD and Uptex CC)

EA+SA

EA

EA

EA + SA

Régional thematics selected :

• EA = Entrepreneurial activity SA = Scientific activity CC = Competitivity clusters

3) Put the focus on innovation to enable the creation of new sectors :

Energy and power electronics (

Waste treatment, sediments, polluted sites and soils (Team2 CC)

Images and digital creation

E-health

SA

EA+SA

EA+SASA

With 6 axes of transversal engagements:1) Foster the creation of innovative enterprises;

2) Change the habits of regional SMEs by focusing on the analysis of business strategies and human capital;

3) Attract foreing direct investment having a "high technological intentisty", and change the reputation of the region;

4) Innovate through and for the services;

5) Better funding of innovation;

6) Enhance the potentiel of public and private research as well as the habits of technology transfer and research valorisation.

Régional thematics selected :

1) working groups involving stakeholders (members of the place-based innovation ecosystem);

2) Surveys among SME's;

3) Studies by consultants

Résult : Priorities defined by regional and national authorities

Rather top down approach…

Process to achieve the actual RIS :

DAS4

DAS5

DAS6

DAS7

DAS8

DAS9

DAS10

DAS11

DAS1

DAS2

DAS3

TE5

TE3TE4

TE2TE1

TE6

Pilots : Itrans Compétivity Cluster NSL Compétivity Cluster PICOM Compétivity Cluster

DAS4

DAS5

DAS6

DAS7

DAS8

DAS9

DAS10

DAS11

DAS1

DAS2

DAS3

TE5

TE3TE4

TE2TE1

TE6

Pilots : Automotive Excellence Cluster Buidings Excellence Cluster Mechanic Excellence Cluster Maud&Uptex Competivity Clusters

Future orientation of the S3 process

• Solve the paradox between economic specialisation and diversification (remember coal, steel industry…);

• Be more focused on actual priorities strategy;• Have to involve all the stakeholders at the begining of the

(re)design process;• Synergies to be developped with Champagne, Flanders,

Picardie, Wallonia, Kent…• Design the "entrepreneurial discovery process"

DAS4

DAS5

DAS6

DAS7

DAS8

DAS9

DAS10

DAS11

DAS1

DAS2

DAS3

Permanent entrepreneurial discovery process : détection, follow up of collective projects fostering new activities

Evaluation, assessment of impact, adaptation

S3

Emerging projects

TE5

TE3TE4

TE2TE1

TE6

Croisement avec les Enjeux de Société

DAS4

DAS5

DAS6

DAS7

DAS8

DAS9

DAS10

DAS11

DAS1

DAS2

DAS3

Evaluation, mesure de l'impact, adaptation

Th1 Th2 Th3 Th4 Th5

Processus permanent de découverte entrepreneuriale : détection, sélection, accompagnement de projets collectifs de création de nouvelles activités

S3

TE5

TE3TE4

TE2TE1

TE6

Emerging projects