Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation
RIS3. How to design RIS3. The importance of de EDP
WORKSHOP ON MESURES FOR PUBLIC SUPPORT TO INNOVATION
Agency for Innovation and Technology Transfer of Moldova
Chisinau, 31 March, 2015
Carmen Sillero
Head of Division Strategy and Programmes
Agency of Innovation and Development of Andalusia
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EUROPA 2020 STRATEGY
•Smart Growth
•Sustainable Growth
• Inclusive Growth
Targets 2020
Employment:
75% of the 20-64 year-olds to be employed
3% of the EU's GDP to be invested in
R&D
«20/20/20» Climate change and energy sustainability.
greenhouse gas emissions 20% lower than 1990, 20% of energy from renewables
20% increase in energy efficiency
Educación Reducing the rates of early school leaving below 10%, at least 40% of
30-34–year-olds completing third level education
Fighting poverty and social exclusion at least 20 million fewer people in
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EUROPA 2020 Flagships Initiatives
 Innovation Union
 Digital agenda for Europe
 Youth on the move
 Resource Efficient Europe
 An industrial policy for the globalisation era
 An agenda for new skills and jobs
 European Platform against poverty
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Smart Specialisation Strategy. The concept
EU 2020: Flagship Union for Innovation
Communication “Regional Policy Contributing to Smart Growth in Europe”
Ex-conditionality on the new cohesion framework 2014-2020
Regions will be required to identify the sectors, the technological domains, or the major areas of likely competitive advantage, and then focus their regional policy as to promote innovation in these fields.
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Smart Specialisation Strategy. The rationale
Knowledge for Growth Group (K4G) “Transatlantic productivity gap”
Fragmentation and repetition. All regions looking at the same technological domains.
Lower level of technological and economic specialisation
European clusters are not the best ranked on the global market, because of low level of competitiveness and international integration, and the failing capacity to internalise the growing knowledge spillovers in innovation and value chains.
Focus on specific domains, exploiting their position and regional –based comparative advantage in innovation
Open Innovation System
More complex form of governance, decentralised coordination
To concentrate resources on few key priorities rather than spreading investment thinly across areas and business sector.
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“Smart specialization emphasizes on innovation and concentrate scarce human and financial resources in few areas globally competitive and identified by a process of entrepreneurial discovery "
“The regions must pursue a diversified portfolio of related activities, finding the balance between enough specialization to be competitive, but not too much to expose the region to the risks of changes in market conditions or other unpredictable external events "
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RIS3 GLOSARY
SPECIALISATION
CONTEXT AND
HISTORY
ENTREPRENEURIAL
DISCOVERY PROCESS
EMBEDEDNESS
TECHNOLOGICAL
RELATEDNESS ,
BRANCHING EFFECT
ALL STAKEHOLDERS
FULLY INVOLVED
PRIORITISATION , CONCENTRATING KNOWLEDGE
RESOURCES FOR ECONOMIC SPECIALISATION ON THE
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES OF THE TERRITORY
TAILOR MADE , EACH TERRITORY ITS OWN MODEL
OPENESS, CONECTIVITY TO THE MARKET, ALIANCES,
COOPERATION, GLOBAL VALUE CHAIN
ENCOURAGE ALL INNOVATION FORMS AND
EXPERIMENTATION, NOT JUST TECHNOLOGICAL ,
INCLUDING SOCIAL INNOVATION
KET
OPEN INNOVATION
TECNOLOGY HIBRIDATION
MONITORING AND EVALUATION
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S3 and peripheral regions. Questions and doubts
In peripheral regions, entrepreneurial processes tend to be less successful
Lack of connectivity
Small market potential
Low level global integration
Too specialised economy, insufficiently diversified
Searching and exploiting the TECHNOLOGICAL
Will S3 approach drive lagging regions
RELATEDNESS ,
Will the core advanced regions be the only ones to focus on its able to focus their traditional domains?
specialisation on
TECNOLOGICAL DIVERSIFICATION OF MAJOR
EMBEDED INDUSTRIES
Fostering learning linkages with industrial production zones and knowledge regions
Regional policy focus on foster human capital formation for the new
“knowledge needs”
Following region access to problem solving expertise

FUNDING
CLIENTS
MARKETS
COMPANIES
COOPERATION
GLOBAL VALUE
CHAINS
SERVICES
TALENT
CREATIVITY
RESEARCH AND
INNOVATION
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What do they need?
With whom they cooperate?
Who are their competitors and their customers?
Is there critical mass?
Is there excellence?
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- Utilizing entrepreneurial knowledge existing in a country
-Taking an entrepreneurial approach in the sense of focusing on market opportunities
- Managing risks and seeking alliances to optimise the access to and use of resources
(physical, financial, intellectual, market knowledge, etc.).
- Policy makers should involve all types of innovation actors (e.g. businesses, technology and competence centres, universities and public agencies, science and business parks, business angels and venture capitalists, civil society, etc.)
The government no longer plays a role of omniscient planner but it will assess the potential of the new activities and empower those actors which are most capable of realizing that potential.
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 D. Foray, P. McCann, J. Goddard,
K. Morgan, C. Nauwelaers, R. Ortega.
 European Commission
 RIS3 Platform team

Internationalisation
Policy
Delivery
Instruments
Entrepreneurship and incubation
Connecting Universities
Social Innovation
Clusters
Green Growth
Cultural and creative industries
Digital agenda
Financial engineering
Research infrastructures
Skills Key Enabling Technologies
SMEs Support Innovation PP
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Methodological support
Policy
Rationale
Smart Specialisation GUIDE
CP Regulations 2013-20
(COM) “The contribution of Regional Policy to smart Growth”
(COM) “The contribution of Regional Policy to sustainable Growth”
Innovation Union Flagship
Innovation Union self-assessment tool
Regional Innovation Monitor
OECD 2011 “Regions and Innovation Policy”
IRE-RIS Guide
Directory “No-Nonsense” to build S 3
Diagnostic Systèmes d’Innovation (Praguer)
Economic
Rationale
“Knowledge for Growth”
FWP Evaluation
Innovation Systems
Endogenous Growth
“Innovative milieux”
Policy Experimentation
RIS-RITTs 1994-2004
Competitive Advantage – M-Porter
Industrial districts
Evolutionary Economics
Economic Geography
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ANALYSIS OF THE
REGIONAL CONTEXT
AND POTENTIAL FOR
INNOVATION
INTEGRATION OF
MONITORING AND
EVALUATION
MECHANISMS
RIS3 phases
GOVERNANCE:
ENSURING
PARTICIPATION AND
OWNERSHIP
DEFINITION OF
COHERENT POLICY
MIX, ROADMAPS
AND ACTION PLAN
ELABORATION OF AN
OVERALL VISION FOR
THE FUTURE OF THE
REGION
IDENTIFICATION
OF PRIORITIES
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The analysis should cover three main dimensions:
• Territorial assets, such as technological infrastructures; Major strengths and weaknesses, identifying any bottlenecks of the innovation system and key challenges both for the economy and the society. Economic differentiation is one of the central principles behind smart specialisation.
• Linkages with the rest of the world and the position of the region within the
European and global economy, and
• Dynamics of the entrepreneurial environment.
Level of entrepreneurship.
Degree of business development and innovation potential.
Entrepreneurs in the broad sense: actors regional innovation system.
Tools suitable for this kind of analysis can include SWOT analysis, regional profiling studies, targeted surveys and expert assessments. consulting firms and clusters; technology audits; Prospective studies ...

RIS3 process requires broad participation of stakeholders from different types and levels: Public officials, and enterprise networks, universities, research centers, technology centers, incubators, NGOs, consumers ...
“Cuadruple
Helix".
- Open, transparent and collaborative process.
Entrepreneurial discovery Process
Collaborative leadership Codecision

Having a clear and shared vision of regional development is crucial in order to keep stakeholders engaged in the process, a task that is particularly challenging, given that a RIS3 is a long-term process.
•Determine the strategic objective for the future of RIS3.
•Discuss and decide where you want to place the region in the future.
•Mobilizing power: generating a positive voltage to the achievement of strategic objectives.
•Ensure the long term all stakeholders engagement in the process.

Decision making and priority setting:
Select a limited number of areas of specialization or differentiation, in which the territory already has assets and critical mass, with potential for smart specialization.
Areas with innovative potential in the region to pursue excellence.
Horizontal priorities ICT. KETs.
Prevent most powerful pressure groups control the process of decision making.

• Roadmap, action plan, using pilot projects.
• Identification of appropriate instruments and measures to achieve the objectives.
• Tools to overcome challenges and difficulties identified in the process.

Policy delivery instruments and horizontal approaches
– Clusters
– Innovation friendly business environments for SMEs
– Research infrastructures, centers of competence and science parks
– Universities-enterprise cooperation
– Digital agenda
– Key enabling technologies
– Cultural and creative industries
– Internationalisation
– Financial engineering instruments
– Skills
– Innovative public procurement
– Green growth
– Social innovation
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Mechanisms for monitoring and evaluating should be integrated in the strategy and its different components from the very beginning.
Monitoring: verify the correct and efficient implementation of the measures.
Evaluation: External process aims at verifiying whether strategic objectives have been achieved
It is necessary to adapt and update the strategy regularly.
The information obtained through monitoring and evaluation mechanisms should be taken into account when updating the strategy.
Establish measurable objectives and performance indicators.
Peers review

Carmen Sillero
Head of Division for Strategy and Programmes
Agency of Innovation and Development of Andalusia
Chisinau, 30 march 2015

GDP 16.666 € pc (2013)
73% pc EU 27 (2011)
Area
87.597 km 2
A griculture live-stock,
5%
Population (2014)
8.392.635
Services
74%
Transition Region
Nº of companies
(2013) 472.370
83% qualified working population
34,2 % university graduates
Industry
12%
Building
9%
Total spending R&D /GDP 1,1%
Private sector 36,3 %

policies and system of evaluation prioritisation vision
governance analysis of the innovation system entrepreneurial discovery process

political governance collaborative leadership
Management committee reference group large enterprises
SMEs entrepreneurs experience business technical team expert group business sector andalusian knowledge system communication social networks participatory joint decision-making process

Process of Intensive
Interrelation between agents
Entrepreneurial discovering workshop

Sustainable and efficient
Social and personcentred
Active and more enterprising
Advance and more innovative
Healthy and a guarantee of social wellbeing
Internal cohesion and open to the world

MOBILITY AND
LOGISTIC
TRANSPORT-
RELATED
ADVANCED
INDUSTRY
TERRITORIALLY
BASED
ENDOGENOUS
RESOURCES
TOURISM,
CULTURE AND
LEISURE
HEALTH AND
SOCIAL WELL
BEING
AGROINDUSTRY
AND HEALTHY
DIET
RENEWABLE
ENERGY, ENERGY
EFFICIENCY AND
SUSTAINABLE
BUILDING
ICT AND DIGITAL
ECONOMY
EFFICIENT AND
COMPETITIVE
INDUSTRY
SOCIAL
INNOVATION
KEY ENABLE
TECHNOLOGIES
Dimensions
INNOVATIVE SMES
SOURCE OF
EMPLOYMENT
NETWORKING
OVERSEAS
PROJECTION
EDUCATION, TALENT AND CREATIVE
ENVIRONMENTS
INFRASTRUCTURE FOR
COMPETITIVENESS AND
EXCELLENCE

 Increase the propensity to innovate
 Make innovation part of Andalusia’s identity
 The Knowledge System as an economic driver
 Private sector as the leader of innovative processes
 Beacon in research and innovation in priority RIS3 areas
 Accessibility of ICT
 Knowledge capital as a key to economic development
 Capture of external resources and capacities to reinforce current knowledge capital
 Innovative public administrations

 R&D&I / GDP
= 2%
 Private sector contribution to R&D&I:
50%
• 20% intensity of innovation in companies
• 20% researchers
 X 2 innovative companies
 50% patents
 50%
GVA of medium and high-tech activities
 +60% exports of medium and high-tech activities
 100% high-speed broadband
 40% companies in the online market
 85% of the population using Internet regularly
 40% population + 100 companies using eadministration regularly

policies and evaluation system
Financial
Instruments
Fiscal
Instruments
Advanced
Services
Infrastructure for Innovation and
Enterprise
Innovative
Public
Procurement
Regulatory
Development

Private Funds
1.184 mill.
€ policies and evaluation system
Public Funds
2.016 mill.
€
3.200 million €

policies and evaluation system
Governance
Panel of indicators
Monitoring Plan
Evaluation Plan
Review Mechanisms

dentify the detonation factors which put into motion sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems based on open innovation, where the business sector, the knowledge system and the citizens are commited to invest their efforts and skills
Connect the higher number of capacities and those which better spill over on the innovation, science and business sector
reate shared value in Andalusia, generating the highest number of new opportunities

G ive the driver role of the strategy to the business sector and the supporting accompaniment role to the andalusian government
E ncourage the confidence-building governance , making the most of the sound entrepreneurial discovery process launched
Be able to adapt to change.
The commitment of the business representatives is essential to allow the RIS3 loop to provide learning, to correct the route.
To be intelligent means to be able to learn and to improve accordingly

Description
RIS 3 MOLDOVA. Approved in June 2013 by the Parliament
Research &
Innovation
Capabilities
Business Areas &
Target Market
EU Prioritit
Biotechnology
Cultural heritatage
Energy efficienciency..
Health & biomedicine...
Innovative mateterials
1. Manufacturing
& industry
2. Biotechnology
1. Human health & social work activities
1. KETs
2. Industrial biotechnology
1. Creative, cultural arts & entertainment
1. Creative, cultural arts
& entertainment
1. Cultural & creative industries
1. Energy production & distribution
2. Power generation/renew able sources
1. Energy production & distribution
2. Energy distribution
1. Services
2. Scientific research & development
1. Human health & social work activities
1. Sustainable innovation
2. Sustainable energy & renewables
1. Public health & security
1. Manufacturing
& industry
1. Manufacturing & industry
1. KETs
2. Advanced materials

• A new form of regional planning. New paradigm focused on prioritisation
• Open, crossectoral, cross geografical
• Entrepreneurial discovery in the core of the RIS3, puting in place an integrated ecosystem of companies, public administration, researchers, and citizens to identify together new opportunities to serve the market
• New tools, talents and mindsets.
• An experiemental y evolutionary approach, where monitoring is key.
• RIS3 is a challenge for public administration and for universities which are being compelled to innovate themselves.
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http://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/the-kingdom-of-smart
csillero@agenciaidea.es
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