THE ROLE OF THE DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES IN THE
MANAGEMENT OF THE BUSINESS INNOVATION SUPPORT
SYSTEMS
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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• Introduction
• Competitiveness within the context of the
new Complexity Paradigm
• Innovation systems in peripheral territories
• The Innovation Strategy of the Republic of
Moldova
• Innovation Agencies areas of activity
• Conclusions
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Evolution towards a new complexity
Derived from Globalisation
Trends
Consequences
•Deep changes in the international market
•Acceleration of the Tecnological change
and innovation
• Transformation in the relation among
business and sectors. Cross-sectoral
approach
•Sharing economy, sharing consumption
•Global goes local and viceversa
•Open knowlege, learning innovation
systems
•New multilevel governance
•Specialisation of territories and companies in specific
tasks in global value chains.
•Need to develop related variety
•New business models, new communities and
organizations for the public and private sectors.
•Open Innovation.
•Competence rise among territoriy but also
opportunies for cooperation
•Need to develop participative planing systems
•New industry more linked to services within the
company or outsourced.
•Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation.
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Evolution towards a new complexity
Derived from the resources availability
Trends
Consequences
•Availability of natural resources
•Demand patterns associated with climate
change and sustainability awareness
•Tension on fuel/gas prices due to
availability
•Exploration of new energy sources.
•Global Geopolitics and Security
•Cost of energy and commodities.
•Technological development, renewable energy and
eco-efficiency
•Significance of energy transport.
•Search for new efficiencies for energy intensive
activities such as transport and metallurgy
Derived from the demographic structure
Consequences
Trends
• Aging population in the developed world
• Migration
•Increased rate dependence
•Lack of occupational assets
•Need to increase productivity
•Innovations based on aging
•Increased demand for health and other
•Need to attract and retain talent
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Derived from the changes in the global demand patterns
Consequences
Trends
•Weak increase of the consumption in the
occidental countries
•Collaborative consumpsion
•Emerging countries
•Transfer of the critical mass of masive
demand to the middle class of emerging
countries
•Adapting products and services to meet most
dynamic markets preferences
•New business models where ITC and social networks
allow citizens to access directly, share, reuse
resources.
•Increasing importance on the information and
knowledge management
•Need to develop frugal innovation. (Base of the
Pyramid)
•Redefining sourcing strategies and positioning
enterprises
Derived from reconciling different objectives in the definition, design and evaluation
of economic policies
Trends
Consequences
•Objective "welfare improvement“ vs
GDP
• Sustainability
Shared value concept
Innovation and creativity for advancing on
the frontiers of knowledge
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The foundations of the new paradigm will be:
Technology in a constantly
accelerating change
OPEN Innovation
Almost infinite capacity
for interconnection
and access to
information
GLOCAL
Social and cultural
innovation
New values
The individual and
the relationships
Cualification and skills
Responsible
Competitiveness
Life cycle
assessment
New organizational
models: innovation
and collaboration
Public-private cooperation
Smart Specialisation
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Innovation systems in peripheral territories
The concept of Innovation System
"Institutional infrastructure that supports
innovation in the productive structure of
territory”
1. Common Research and Innovation
infrastructures,
•Human and technical resources
•Public policies supporting innovation
• Level of technological sophistication of the
economy
2. The competitive strengths of the
different value chains, clusters operating in a
specific territoriy: how much competition
exerted by competitors, how demanding are
its customers ....
3. The quality of the relationship between these elements
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Between business and the research community
The role of institutions and to what extent innovation processes are integrated
into the production systems.
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Innovation systems in peripheral territories
• Low R & D effort and innovation.
• Excessive weight of the public sector in R & D activities. Mainly developed by
Universities and public entities
• Low business sector’s knowledge absorption capacity
• Small size companies
• Low level of labor force qualification
• Traditional industrial sectors and non-technological services
• Patterns of business innovation little based in R & D
•Low level or articulation of the innovation system, little cooperation
•business-universitiy
• B2B
•Innovation is limited because the lack of demand from potential users, the
entrepreneurs. The demand for innovation is low because entrepreneurs
perceive new activities and low profitability.
Territories need to create innovation
ecosystems, where conditions, partners and
incentives, reward innovation
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The Innovation Strategy of the Republic of Moldova for the
period 2013-2020: "Innovation for competitiveness” (*)
Structural challenges for Innovation
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Lack of human resources for R&D and innovation. Brain drain
Reduced R&D investment of the business enterprise sector (BES).
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Weak links between R&D institutes, universities and BES
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Innovation governance is highly centralised and has an academic character
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the lack of proper R&D statistics and their comparability with international
benchmarks
The need of monitoring and evaluation.
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General objectives
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Adoption of an open governance model of R&I
Enabling people by entrepreneurship training for innovation skills
Orientation of companies towards innovation
Applying knowledge to solve societal and global problems
Stimulation of demand for innovative products and services.
(*) ERAWATCH Country Reports 2013: Moldova. JRC
Designing a policy mix
Main challenges for Development Agencies
• Boosting the entrepreneurial ecosystem and leading it as the business
accompaniment agent.
• Enhancing competitiveness of local enterprises and supporting
innovation.
• Overcoming SME’S small size: to be competitive smes need to gain
dimension.
• Encouraging companies to link in new value chains, regional, national and
global.
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Pushing creation of fast growing enterprises.
• Promoting attention to organisational and social innovation.
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Improving the current slow take-up of innovation and the efforts in the
commercialisation of research results.
• Filling the gap between enterprises’ real needs and investors’ priorities.
• Developing regional intelligence
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Following-up over time.
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Development Agencies
areas of activity
Infrastructures, Productive Spaces provision
Advanced services for innovation
Financing and Business Development
Attraction of investments
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RDA Challenges: New approach on business support system
Challenges
Increasing number
of companies
Making bigger
companies
Creating
opportunities
environments for
companies
Targets
Increasing the number of
companies
Business development
and higher
competitiveness rates
Generating an
appropriate environment
on behalf of public sector
Action plan
• Supporting entrepreneurship
• Attraction of external investment
• Creating middle and high technology companies,
including industrial spin-off
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Internationalization
Intercompany cooperation
Fostering R&D and research within the areas ris3
Sustainability and efficient resources consumption
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Lightening administrative and regulation process
Strengthening public financing for companies
Changing grants and incentives model for companies
Providing advanced services for companies
Providing infrastructure and productive sites RIS3
Facilitate access to international innovation environments
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Advanced Services
INDUSTRIAL
PROPERTY
Advice
R&D+I FUNDING
INFORMATION & ADVICE
National & Intl.
Funding Programs
Advice
Management
Partners Search
Ad-hoc Reports
R&D+I Information &
Advice
COOPERATION &
TRANSFER
TECHNOLOGY
FORESIGHT
Innovation
Assessments
Customized
company reports
Opportunities
Difussion
Reports for
Clusters & Sectors
Tech offers &
Demands
Tech Foresight
Studies
Partners Search
• Participation in Networks
• Era-Net
• Enterprise Europe Network
•H2020
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Conclusions
-Promoting an accompanying and backing environment to
entrepreneurs in all dimension: financial, site, advanced
services, foresight, internationalization… .
-Matchmaking of SMES wishing to integrate into world-class
clusters aiming for excellence and cross-european value chains
- Closing the gap on financial access to innovation, building the
real stairs towards excellence and structuring bridges that
allow business sector to access to Horizon2020, COSME…
- Designing new funding tools maximizing private resources
participation on business projects.
-Supporting companies for finding other ways of non-bank
funding: alternative investment markets, business angels,
crowdfunding
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- PPPs
: leading public sector to perform as first client for
innovative SME or as facilitator of critical mass that triggers
industry to scale up its production chain to bring products on
the market
- Capacity building: research infrastructure, networks,
advisory services, industrial research and innovation
infrastructures, pilot lines, etc. …)
- Territorial cooperation projects and other international
joint initiatives as “docking stations” to seize opportunities
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Mulţumesc
csillero@agenciaidea.es
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