Regional Policy

Smart Specialisation:

Where are we heading?

Gdansk, 21 April 2016

Jan Larosse

Competence Centre

Smart & Sustainable Growth

DG Regional and Urban Policy

European Commission

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OVERVIEW

• Policy background for smart specialisation investment

• European Investment Plan

• Integrated approach for smart specialisation and cluster policy

• RIS3: major opportunity for Pomorskie

• 'RIS3' = research and innovation strategies for smart specialisation

• From smart intention to smart action

• RIS3 internationalisation

• Thematic Smart Specialisation Platforms: launch at High-Level Event on Smart Regions:1-2 June

• To do

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The national or regional innovation strategies which:

Smart Specialisation strategy as defined in the Common

Provision Regulation 1303/2013

• set priorities

• in order to build competitive advantage

• by developing and matching research and innovation own strengths to business needs

• in order to address emerging opportunities and market developments

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Supporting the EC's top priority: the Investment Plan for Europe

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Digital Agenda

Circular Economy

Energy Union

European Fund Strategic Investments (EFSI)

• € 315 bn

European Structural Investment Funds (ESIF)

• € 450 bn (incl. around € 100 bn for innovation)

Increase effectiveness of investments !

Industrial Modernisation

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Source: Final ESIF partnership agreements as of December 2015

Soon all open data available at: https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/

ESIF programming 2014-20: State of Play

In billion EUR

• EUR 454 billion of ESIF + EUR 183 billion of national co-financing

• 456 national and regional and 79 INTERREG cooperation programmes

• Concentration on 11 Thematic Objectives

ca €121 billion

ca €234 billion

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Source: Final ESIF partnership agreements as of December 2015

Soon all open data available at: https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/

How much do we invest?

• Total EU budget for RIS3: EUR 43.7 billion of ESIF

• Plus national EUR 22 billion

• EUR 10 billion in financial instruments / the rest in grants

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More than 120 RIS3

(regional and national)

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Main challenges to make RIS3 work:

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Ensuring continuity

•RIS3 is conceived as an on-going (and reiterative)

•Process with stakeholder involvement (Entrepreneurial Discovery Process),

•Monitoring as management tool

•Evaluation of RIS3

Implementation tools & capacities

•Selection criteria/selection processes

•Appropriate support tools (participatory leadership methods)

•Administrative capacities to design such tools and manage them effectively and efficiently

International opening and cooperation

•Generate critical mass via combining forces

•Complementing capacities and linking related regions

•Synergies with Horizon 2020

•Art. 70 of CPR

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Entrepreneurial discovery process is the core of RIS3

Reiterative process

Creative thinking /

combination

External view needed

Multiple formats of EDP

depending on: RIS3 stage (strategy design vs.

Delivery mechanism design vs.

Project level)

Theme / value chain specificities

(e.g. pharmaceuticals vs digital

innovations vs manufacturing ….)

Business manufacturing and

services, primary sectors, financial sector, creative industries, social sector,

large firms, SMEs, young entrepreneurs, students with business

ideas, cluster and business organisations, etc.

Research public and private research bodies,

universities, science and technology

parks, NCPs, Technology transfer offices, Horizon2020 committee members,

regional ESFRI roadmaps etc.

Different departments, if relevant at different

government levels, agencies e.g. for regional development,

business advice, public procurement offices,

incubators, etc.

Public administration

NGOs and citizens’ initiatives related to

societal challenges for which innovative solutions

would be helpful, consumers associations,

trade unions, Talents! etc.

Civil society / Users

Entrepreneurial in: - Composition and

- Spirit: (risk-taking, broader view beyond boundaries …)

Continuity

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From smart intentions to smart actions Results will depend on the development of a capacity to convert strategic decisions into real measures

This requires good governance and a continuouing entrepreneurial discovery process for:

1. Smart policy mix

Combining OPs with other support instruments in the region (education, infrastructures, smart city, foreign investment, …)

Aligning regional and national support policies

Looking for complementary European support (H2020)

2. Smart programming

New strategic initiatives with long-term horizon (10 years)

Reorienting existing programmes (adjusted criteria)

Match priorities among key actors (changing the research agendas)

Innovation infrastructures that serve the purpose

Strategic platforms to gather the stakeholders

3. Smart monitoring

Embedding learning in the programmes

Specific indicators for the specific domains

Internationalisation of the RIS3!

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Role for cluster organisations or other SME intermediaries

Customised SME support

Regional and International

Strategy

Cross-sectoral Collaboration

VALUE CHAIN INNOVATION

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Strategic interregional cooperation as driver for investments and growth

1. Support cross-sectoral and cross-border cooperation of innovation actors along the value chain

2. Promote the bottom-up role of regional authorities and cluster organisations in bringing these actors together

3. Accelerate the finer focussing of RIS3 priorities on comparative strengths through complementarity

4. Upscaling fragmented efforts at the level of European markets and feeding a European investment pipe-line

5. Aligning strategies and investments in strategic European growth areas and building synergies with other programmes

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RIS3 supports inter-regional, inter-disciplinary, cross-sectoral areas to build competitive advantage

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1. Set-up of a Thematic Smart Specialisation Platform on Industrial Modernisation and Investment

• How: Platform to be co-developed by REGIO, GROW & JRC, together with and to support lead regions committed to work together.

• What: Develop an innovation project pipeline focused on industrial modernisation areas, such as advanced manufacturing, digital transformation/industry 4.0, resource efficiency and service innovation.

e.g. joint implementation of smart specialisation strategies, Innovation Deals, EFSI Investment Platforms, Important Projects of Common European Interest…

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for Smart Specialisation Investments

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2. Set-up of European Strategic Cluster Partnerships for Smart Specialisation Investments

• How: Bottom-up partnering through call for expression of interest, bringing together cluster organisations, technology centres and others

• What: Generating inter-regional innovation projects, strengthening industry participation in the implementation of smart specialisation strategies, and gathering feed-back on obstacles for innovation.

e.g. joint strategy formulation, implementation roadmaps, matchmaking, joint activities, towards demonstration projects, preparation of bankable proposals, acceleration support…

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Pilot actions for joint demonstration:

1. Advanced Manufacturing for

energy applications

2. Efficient and sustainable

manufacturing

3. High Performance Production

with 3D Printing'

4. Bio-economy (non-food

biomass)

5. Nano-enabled products

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Application domains & challenges - Healthcare - Automotive - Aerospace - Machinery and instruments - Electronics and electr.

devices - Creative industries - Textiles

Methodology at work in 3D-printing Value Chain

Mapping, Matching & 20 regions engage in Joint Demonstration

Co-investing to accelerate uptake 3D-Printing Solutions in interregional value chains

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Thematic Smart Specialisation Platforms: How? Approach: Using smart specialisation as a coordinating mechanism to align efforts

based on RIS3 analysis – including "lagging regions" and other "unusual suspects"

foster opportunities for regions/MS to team up around value-chains (Horizon2020, COSME and INTERREG Europe could support networking costs)

driven by motivated regions (e.g. in the Vanguard Initiative), not Commission

entrepreneurial discovery at European level: inspired by Vanguard Initiative (Learn-Connect-Demonstrate-Commercialise)

involving relevant clusters, intermediaries, thematically related EU level initiatives (such as the EIT-KICs, Joint Undertakings, ETPs, EIPs, etc.)

support the development of project investment pipe-lines

Facilitate access to "real money" for resulting projects (incl. EFSI, cooperation with EIAH, private investors, coordinating ESIF investments, Horizon2020 …)

First Platform

concerns energy:

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European Strategic Cluster Partnerships for Smart Specialisation Investments

Preparatory

Phase

Implementation Phase

Investment Phase

Partnership building Joint strategy formulation Implementation roadmap

Matchmaking Joint activities, demonstration projects, pilots, preparation of bankable proposals

Additional private/public financing Acceleration support Showcasing results

ESIF - RIS3

EFSI

Horizon2020

COSME

INTERREG

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A multiplier mechanism for investments in new value chains

Cases for projects

Partnerships Identified

Search Areas

Thematic Smart

Specialisation Platforms

SSP Industrial Modernisation

Adv Manufacturing

Efficient & Sustainable

Manufacturing

3D Printing

complex parts

hybrid materials

Nano-enabled production

KETs

Clean Tech?

Thematic Smart Specialisation Platforms and Strategic European Cluster Partnerships will support a project pipeline of investment projects for new business opportunities in growth domains The Vanguard Initiative has been piloting this aproach for the Pilot 'Advanced Manufacturing': at this moment 28 project cases are under development

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Fueling an investment projects pipeline

Thematic SSP /European

Strategic Cluster Partnerships

Learn!Connect!

Demonstrate!Commercialise!

EFSI

Thematic Investment Platforms

INVESTMENT PROJECT PIPE-LINE:

- SUPPORT SERVICES (Roadmaps, value chain

mapping, brokerage, …)

- SYNERGIES IN FUNDING MECHANISMS

Methodology for co-creating new value chains

(joint roadmap – joint demonstration – joint investment)

SCALING-UP REGIONAL S3

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1 June 2016, WEDNESDAY

Sessions 1-2: Smart specialisation - From Design to Implementation

Continuous Entrepreneurial Discovery

Governance settings

Selection criteria and selection process

Transnational cooperation and value chains

Monitoring and evaluation

Smart Specialisation Strategy experience outside EU

Session 3: Thematic Smart Specialisation Platforms

Industrial Modernisation

Agro-Food Value Chains

Energy Transition

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Session 4: Investment challenges

2 June 2016, THURSDAY

Report and conclusions from day 1

Session 5: Align objectives for economic transformation (Stakeholders)

Session 6: Implementation of RIS3 –

Synergies in policy support for economic transformation (Commissioners)

Continuous exhibition and networking

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NEXT STEPS

• April 2016: Call for expression of interest for European Strategic Cluster Partnerships and preparatory support

• 11 & 12 May : Information Days on SSP Industrial Modernisation & SSP Agro-Food

• 1-2 June 2016: Launch Thematic Platforms at High-Level Smart Specialisation event

• 1-2 December 2016: European Cluster Conference

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Conclusions

• RIS3 Implementation: Opportunity!

Acceleration of transformation

• RIS3 Implementation: Internationalisation!

Positioning in international value chains

• RIS3 Implementation: Capacity building!

Strategic partnering (modern cluster organisations)

'Made in Poland' (Pilot Project World Bank)

Baltic 2030 Strategy

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INFORMATION DAYS 11 & 12 MAY, BRUSSELS LAUNCH AT 1 JUNE: SMART REGIONS CONFERENCE, BRUSSELS

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Questions and Answers

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