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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................... 1
1. REGIONAL INNOVATION POLICY IN EUROPE ......................... ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
2. EVALUATION METHODOLOGY ............................................. ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
2.1 OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE OF THE EVALUATION .......................................ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
2.2 M ETHODOLOGICAL APPROACH .................................................................ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
3. BASELINE SITUATION .......................................................... ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
3.1 SOCIO-ECONOMIC SITUATION AND INDICATORS....................................ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
3.2 RTDI REGIONAL PROFILES AND INDICATORS ..........................................ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
4. THE IMPORTANCE OF RTDI IN OBJECTIVE 2 PROGRAMMES .. ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
4.1 PROGRAMME DESIGN M ECHANISMS AND THE INTEGRATION OF RTDIERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
4.2 RTDI AS A PRIORITY THEME ......................................................................ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
4.3 THE SCALE OF FUNDING...............................................................................ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
5. PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT .............................................. ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
5.1 REGIONAL INNOVATION PARTNERSHIPS A ND OBJECTIVE 2 PROGRAMMES......... ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT
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5.2 SELECTION CRITERIA AND PROCEDURES.................................................ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
5.3 EVALUATION AND MONITORING................................................................ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
6. EFFECTIVENESS OF RTDI ACTIONS ...................................... ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
6.1 IMPACT SURVEY............................................................................................ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
6.2 HOW DOES RTDI A FFECT REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS? ...................ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
6.3 RTDI AND HUMAN RESOURCES IN OBJECTIVE 2 ZONES .........................ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
6.4 SYNERGIES......................................................................................................ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
7. ENHANCING THE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IMPACT OF RTDI ACTIONS UNDER OBJECTIVE 2 KEY MESSAGES FOR 2000+ .................................................. ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
LIST OF TABLES
TABLE 1.1: Division of Responsibilities Regional/National Levels ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
TABLE 2.1: The Seven key issues identified by the TOR ............ ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
TABLE 2.2: Five Key Aspects of the Comparative Analysis........ ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
TABLE 2.3: Sources of information............................................ ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
TABLE 2.4: Categorisation of measures..................................... ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
TABLE 2.5: List of case study regions and members of evaluation team....... ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT
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TABLE 3.1: Objective 2 and Total Unemployment Rates per country........... ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT
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TABLE 3.2: Summary of socio-economic and RTDI situation in Objective 2 zonesERROR! B OOKMARK
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TABLE 3.3: possible RTDI Priority Baseline Indicators............... ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
TABLE 4.1: SPDs with RTDI identified as a priority................... ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
TABLE 4.2: Categorisation of the evolution of RTDI activities..... ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
TABLE 4.3: A Comparative Assessment Of Objective 2 Programme Structures In 1989-1999
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TABLE 4.4: RTDI spending planned in Objective 2 SPDs (1994-1996)......... ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT
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TABLE 4.5: Trends in RTDI share of SPD budget 1994-96 / 1997-99.......... ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT
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TABLE 4.6: Evolution of the share of S,T,I categories in planned RTDI resources ERROR! B OOKMARK
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TABLE 4.7: Breakdown of planned, committed and actual expenditure by category of RTDI expenditure
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TABLE 5.1: Partnerships and programme management - a qualitative assessment ERROR! B OOKMARK
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TABLE 5.2: Selection criteria - Austrian Industrial Research Promotion FundERROR! B OOKMARK NOT
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TABLE 5.3: Evaluation culture and techniques in case study regions ............ ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT
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TABLE 5.4 : indicators for evaluating RTDI actions – some examples ......... ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT
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TABLE 6.1: Structure of survey and respondent firms ................. ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
TABLE 6.2: R&D budget in percent of total turnover.................. ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
TABLE 6.3: Actual outcomes as compared to expectations ......... ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
TABLE 6.4: Types of RTDI actions financed through ESF – Auvergne and Nord-Pas de Calais
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LIST OF BOXES
BOX 1: Efficiency and effectiveness - the arguments for Regional Innovation Policy............... ERROR!
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BOX 2: Difficulties in Identifying RTDI content ......................... ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
BOX 3: Socio-economic and innovation monitoring system.......... ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
BOX 4: Towards indicators for the knowledge-based economy ... ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
BOX 5: Developing a Regional Innovation Profile - the case of RTP Limburg......ERROR! B OOKMARK
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BOX 6: The Bremen WAP and Objective 2............................... ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
BOX 7: Illustrative structure of typical RTDI priority in Italian SPDs........... ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT
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BOX 8: RTDI Priority in West Midlands SPDs 1989-99 ............. ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
BOX 9: The budgetary logic in the SPD design process .............. ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
Box 10: Examples of "drivers and barriers" to meeting spending targets ...... ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT
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BOX 11: MEDILINK Yorkshire & Humberside ........................ ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
BOX 12: Development of RTDI Strategies in Dutch Objective 2 regions ..... ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT
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BOX 13: IRISI in Piemonte – strategic planning and the information society ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT
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BOX 14: Mechanisms for monitoring RTDI actions – client monitoring....... ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT
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BOX 15: Good and bad practice in monitoring and evaluation...... ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
BOX 16: Thematic evaluation of RDTI in Aquitaine .................. ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
BOX 17: CORTECHS – introduction of technicians in SMEs...... ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
BOX 18: New master's programme of the University of Jyväskylä ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
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BOX 19: Developing a research environment on pulpwood and Paper in Finland ..ERROR! B OOKMARK
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BOX 20: Synergies of Objective 2 RTDI Measures: TELERISE. ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
BOX 21: Using Innovation As a promotional hook for inward investors........ ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT
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BOX 22: Five Main Messages for Policy Makers....................... ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
LIST OF DIAGRAMS
DIAGRAM 1: Employment Weight of three main industries ‘87-93ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
DIAGRAM 2: RTDI planned budget share in 1994-1996 SPD...... ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
DIAGRAM 3: ALLOCATION OF RTDI FINANCIAL RESOURCES .... ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
DIAGRAM 4: Science (S), Technology (T) and Innovation (I) shares in 1994-96 RTDI budget per
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DIAGRAM 5: Evolution of RTDI resources in Objective 2 programme......... ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT
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DIAGRAM 6: Money flow and decision procedures in NRW....... ERROR! B OOKMARK NOT DEFINED .
ANNEXES
A. Good Practice Examples
B. RTDI statistics for Objective 2 regions
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APPENDICES – COUNTRY REPORTS
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Austria
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Belgium / Luxembourg
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Denmark
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Finland
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France
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Germany
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Italy
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Netherlands
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Spain
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Sweden
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United Kingdom
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I NTRODUCTION
This Final Synthesis Report presents the culmination of work carried out during the period January
1998 to December 1998 by the Evaluation Consortium1 and its network of country experts under the
contract for the Thematic Evaluation of Research Technological Development and Innovation related
actions in Objective 2 Programmes. The reports provides:
• a comparative analysis of the trends in priorities and funding across eleven Member States and 86
zones in regions eligible under Objective 2 of the Structural Funds;
• an in-depth assessment of key issues through case studies carried out in 15 Objective 2 zones.
A principal output of the evaluation is a series of recommendations on programming methods and
content for future RTDI interventions funded by Objective 2 of the Structural Funds . The
report takes account of remarks and comments on a draft final report from the Commission services
and is structured as follows:
Part I: Background and method
Section 1: discusses changes in the theoretical framework for and priority given to regional
innovation policy in Europe.
Section 2: recalls the objectives of the evaluation, the key thematic issues and the methodology
adopted by the consortium.
Part II: Comparative analysis
Section 3: sets out the baseline situation in terms of socio-economic and RTDI indicators for the 86
Objective 2 zones.
Section 4: discusses trends in the priority given to RTDI actions and the scale of funding for RTDI
across all Objective 2 programmes.
Part III: In-depth analysis - case study regions
Section 5: considers issues related to programme management including partnerships, strategic
initiatives, programme design and project selection procedures; evaluation and monitoring.
Section 6: considers the effectiveness of RTDI actions in promoting regional development drawing
on an impact survey on SMEs and on examples of how Objective 2 funding for RTDI has
improved regional competitiveness. This sections also looks at the impact of ESF
measures on human resources for RTDI; and the issue of synergies between RTDI
measures and other programmes.
Part IV: Conclusions
Section 7: summarises the main conclusions and suggests a series of recommendations and policy
implications for the next period of Objective 2 programming (2000-2006).
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Consortium key partners: Zenit, ADE & Enterprise plc
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