Smart Specialisation Platform
Industrial Modernisation:
What is in it for you?
Jan Larosse
Milan, 30 May 2016
AFIL General Assembly
Competence Centre
Smart & Sustainable Growth
DG Regional and Urban Policy
European Commission
OVERVIEW
•  What is the 'Smart Specialisation Platform Industrial
Modernisation'?
•  Background
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Context analysis
New European policy developments
Role of the Vanguard Initiative
Joint Demonstration Initiatives
Thematic Smart Specialisation Platforms
•  Role of AFIL in SSP Industrial Modernisation
•  Leading by example (ESM)
•  Opportunities (implement your vision of intelligent factories)
Smart Specialisation Platform for
Industrial Modernisation
•  Joint Initiative of DG Regio and DG Grow, including
other lead-DGs and lead-regions (launch: 1 June)
•  Supporting alignment of smart specialisation
investments in European value chains (services by
S3 Platform & Cosme Re-Confirm)
•  Facilitating 'entrepreneurial discovery' at European
scale through interregional cooperation (inspired by
Vanguard Initiative)
BACKGROUND (1)
Analysis
•  Persistent economic stagnation!
•  Macro-economic policy mix has limited impact
•  Monetary expension (cheap money): uncertainty is blocking investment
•  Budgetary restriction (debt reduction): need for sharp prioritisation
+ Micro-economic policies for entrepreneurship and SMEs (mostly at company level)
•  Need for fresh approach to boost the real economy!
'Meso'-economic: bottom-up!
•  Smart specialisation (place-based prioritisation + future perspectives)
•  Cluster-based (using knowledge spillovers) + Value chain approach (networked
companies)
•  New mutual confidence? Invest in Factories of the Future!
•  Vanguard Initiative is showing the way
BACKGROUND (2):
New European policy development
•  European Investment Plan
•  EFSI (315 billion): thematic investment platforms (new themes)
•  European Investment Advisory Hub to assist project development
•  European Structural Investment Funds
•  Implementation of RIS3 as trigger for economic transformation
(41 billion 'plus': at least 100 billion is concerned– community of practice)
•  Industrial Modernisation
•  Industry Policy Communication 2014: 'thematic smart specialisation platforms'
•  Integrated approach: cluster policies and smart specialisation come together
•  System innovation
•  Circular Economy / Energy transition / Mobility systems
•  Large-scale demonstrators
•  Value chain approach connects technology push (KETs) and market pull
(challenges)
BACKGROUND (3)
Vanguard Initiative 'New Growth through
Smart Specialisation' : a fresh approach
•  Origins
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Milan Declaration (Nov 2014)
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2007: Expert Group in DG RTD 'Entrepreneurial Discovery Process'
2013: Ex-ante conditionality in Regulation for structural funds
2013: New Industrial Policy in Flanders – invitation to 8 founding regions
Bottom-up approach to industrial policy: role of regions (political leadership &
leading by example)
2014: Pilot SSP ADMA / 2015: Five Pilot Actions / 2016: Match-Making Event
Showing results!
Innovative: Joint Demonstration Initiatives
(networked demonstration effects)
2016: From Vanguard pilot actions to SSP Industrial
Modernisation
BACKGROUND (4)
'Joint Demonstration Initiative'
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Using scale of European internal market
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Share risks, share futures! Linking supply and demand.
Accelerate learning; diffusion of good practices and (de facto) standards
Upscaling fragmented efforts / coordination by complementarities
Accelerating market uptake via diversity of testing environments
New electronic platforms to connect supply and demand for production
services/ Big data! IoT
3D-Printing production system: think global (diffusion of
designs), act local (production close to user)
Circular economy: upscaling of seperate pilot factories to
system level (de/re-manufacturing) / closing-the-loop cluster
An integrated approach to industrial modernisaton,
clusters and smart specialisation, based on the
aligment of regional authorities (RIS3), research
organisations and business, in new European
value chains in priortity areas.
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1. Set-up of a Thematic Smart Specialisation Platform
on Industrial Modernisation and Investment
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Digital Industrial (Health) (Circular Economy) Food Growth Modernisa)on … e.g. joint implementation of smart specialisation strategies, Innovation Deals, EFSI
Investment Platforms, Important Projects of Common European Interest…
•  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.
Thematic Smart Specialisation Platforms: How?
Approach: Using smart specialisation as a coordinating mechanism to
align efforts
ü  Based on RIS3 analysis – including "lagging regions" and other "un-usual
suspects"
ü  Foster opportunities for regions/MS to team up around value-chains
(Horizon2020, COSME and INTERREG Europe could support networking costs)
ü  Driven by motivated regions (e.g. in the Vanguard Initiative)
ü  Entrepreneurial discovery at European level: inspired by Vanguard
Initiative
ü  Involving relevant clusters, intermediaries, thematically related EU level
initiatives (such as the EIT-KICs, Joint Undertakings, ETPs, EIPs, ERA-Nets,
etc.)
ü  Support the development of project investment pipe-lines
ü  Facilitate access to "real money" for resulting projects (incl. EFSI,
cooperation with EIAH, private investors, coordinating ESIF investments,
Horizon2020 …)
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Pilot actions for joint demonstration: - Advanced Manufacturing for
energy applications
- Efficient and sustainable
manufacturing
-High Performance Production with
3D Printing'
-Bio-economy (non-food biomass)
-Nano-enabled products
See: http://www.s3vanguardinitiative.eu/pilotinitiatives/
What should be new in TSSPs compared to
previous networks and platforms?
• Strategic objec)ve: organising the 'discovery process' of opportuni'es for co-­‐investment in priority areas • Composi)on: not only immediate compe'tors, but poten'al coopera'on partners along value chains (under each thema'c smart specialisa'on pla3orm a limited number of value-­‐chain networks will be supported) • Governance: joint ini'a've of regions that commit and lead-­‐by-­‐example, and suppor'ng DGs; open to all that commit • Objec)ve: not only developing a specific technology/solu'on, or mutual learning, or joint strategy development, but a project pipeline leading to concrete, coordinated & joint investments 12
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.
Value chain Value chain Value chain Value chain Value chain Value chain Value chain Service innova'on Ressource efficiency KETs Joint ac)ons and investments Digital transforma'on Value chain Value chain Businesses Value chain e.g. joint strategy formulation, implementation roadmaps, matchmaking, joint activities,
towards demonstration projects, preparation of bankable proposals, acceleration support…
Cluster organisa'ons European Strategic Cluster Partnerships for Smart Specialisa'on Investments … European Strategic Cluster Partnerships
for Smart Specialisation Investments
Preparatory
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Partnership building
Joint strategy formulation
Implementation roadmap
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INSTRUMENTS!
COSME
Investment
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Implementation
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Matchmaking
Joint activities,
demonstration projects,
pilots, preparation of
bankable proposals
INTERREG
ESIF - RIS3
Horizon2020
Additional private/public
financing
Acceleration support
Showcasing results
EFSI
Call for the expression of interest:
Towards European Strategic Cluster Partnerships
for Smart Specialisation Investments
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Objective: mobilisation to strengthen industry participation and the European
dimension in the implementation of national and regional smart specialisation strategies.
addressed to cluster organisations, other business network organisations, technology
centres and science parks
Focus on triggering a partnering process linked to the Thematic Platform on
Industrial Modernisation (in relation to Key Enabling Technologies, ICT, service innovation
and resource efficiency. This includes advanced manufacturing and other KETs, digital
transformation/industry 4.0, digital platforms, big data analytics, space data services,
resource efficiency, advanced material and disruptive business models and service concepts
including in creative industries, textiles and tourism).
finding partners with complementary competences, accessing value chains that cut across
national, regional and sectoral boundaries as well as facilitate access to technology
centres, including KETs infrastructures and digital innovation hubs.
http://www.clustercollaboration.eu/news/call-expression-interest-towards-europeanstrategic-cluster-partnerships : The Call is open till end 2016.
Role of AFIL – strategic cluster organisation
•  Connect the cluster to regional innovation system, including
financing bodies;
•  Connect to other clusters, including international (European
strategic Cluster Partnerships) and to interregional value
chains (SSP Industrial Modernisation)
•  Co-develop further vision on integrated production system (=
'label' for projects that are part of the new production
infrastructure)
•  Co-develop network of pilot facilities (= transition strategy)
•  Co-develop investment pipeline ( = Investment Platform to
integrate business synergies and financing synergies)
LEADING BY EXAMPLE!
Agenda
•  1-2 June:
Launch of Thematic Platforms at high-level Smart Regions
Conference with 600 stakeholders, including a parallel session and
partnering on Industrial Modernisation
•  7 October (Barcelona):
Follow-up of launch; start of new
partnerships
•  10-13 October:
European Week of Regions and Cities (Open
days) with some 6 000 participants in over 100 workshops
•  30 November - 2 December:
Gathering of 250 cluster
stakeholders at cluster matchmaking event and high-level European
Cluster Conference
Questions and Answers
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