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Arbeitskreis Bau 3. April
Peter Dröll
Referatsleiter, Weiterentwicklung der Innovationspolitik,DG Unternehmen
Overview of presentation:
1. Current situation: innovation in Europe
2. What is the Lead Market Initiative?
3. Sustainable construction/ Eine Leitmarktinitiative für Europa nachhaltiges Bauen
4. Next steps in innovation policy in Europe
1. Overall innovation performance summary innovation index of 29 indicators (2007 & 2006 data)
Summary innovation performance EU Member States (2008 SII)
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TR BG LV RO HR LT P L SK HU MT IT GR P T ES NO CZ SI EE IS CY EU NL FR BE LU IE AT UK DK DE FI SE CH
Germany is one of the Innovation leaders Relative strengths: Innovators and Economic effects
Relative weaknesses are in Human resources, Finance and support and Throughputs.
Performance in Innovators has slightly worsened, due to a decrease in SMEs introducing product or process innovations
The basis
Commission2005: « More Research
and Innovation – Investing for Growth and Employment »
2006: « A broad-based innovation strategy for Europe: putting knowledge into practice »
10 actions
Council► integrated approach,
structural funds, state aid, industry-academia cooperation, services
► 9 Priorities: IPR, Standardisation, Public procurement, JTIs, Lead markets, EIT, Clusters & Cohesion, Services, Risk capital
The idea….
2. Demand side policy in practice: Lead Market Initiative
Supply-side measures
Demand-side measures
- regulation- procurement
- R&D fu
nding
- Equity
support
- Fis
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- standardisation- clusters?
Package = LMI
Complementing supply-side innovation policy
Lead Market Initiative
= coherent, short-term,
demand-side instrument mix
+6 sectors
(including sustainable construction)
+ governance structure
3. Main barriers to innovation addressed in the action plan of the lead market of sustainable construction (4):
Public procurement (1/4):
Too much focus on initial costs:
many key decisions are taken on the basis of the lowest costs instead of quality, safety and environmental criteria and life-cycle costs.
Action: Establish a network between public authorities in charge of procuring sustainable construction
Legislation (2/4)
Highly fragmented landscape of national and EU legislation
Policy coherence: a more strategic and integrated approach in EU legislation in the areas of energy, environment, internal market and health
Action: Screening of national building regulations
Standardisation/ certification (3/4)
Over 3000 standards in EU apply to the construction sector, whereby only 300 are commonly used.
Actual standardisation process is very fragmented and adapting slowly to technological progress and market development.
Action: Widening the scope of Eurocodes (2nd generation)
Other issues (examples) (4/4):
• Fragmentation of the supply chain• Lack of adequate education and skills for innovation
uptake • Liability issues and risks linked to the long-term
consequences of failures (insurance industry)
Actions: SMEs guide on collaborative working schemes in
construction projects Alternative warranty/label schemes related to construction
insurance EU-wide strategy to facilitate the up-grading of skills and
competencies in the construction sector
How can I get involved?
• EEN network (Sector Groups)
• Steering Group of the sustainable construction lead market (contains most European federations)
• Member State members of the Enterprise Policy Group (led by DG Enterprise)
4. Next steps in innovation policy in Europe
Development of a European Plan for Innovation – next steps
Commission Communication (before summer 2009) Assessing progress under Broad
Based Innovation Strategy Policy papers on:
• Mid-term progress report of Lead Markets Initiative
• Service innovation• Effectiveness of innovation support• Financing innovation in SMEs
European Plan for Innovation (end 2009), linked to Lisbon Strategy post-2010
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Development of a European Plan for Innovation:
Some challenges
Challenge: Bridging demand (emerging social needs) with supply (of innovations)
mobility
Active ageing security
environment
Challenge: how can innovation policy address societal challenges?
A final word on innovation and economic crisis
Innovation and economic crisis
Darwin:
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives.
It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”
Impact of financial crisis and economic downturn does not yet show in indicators, but:
Countries with higher innovation capacity better placed to recover faster. Hence EU better placed than 5 years ago but still behind US.
EU firms under investment in research and innovation is a particular concern.
References:
• Homepage DG enterprise: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/index_en.htm
• Homepage European innovation policy:http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/innovation/index_en.htm
• Homepage Lead Market Initiative:http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/leadmarket/leadmarket.htm
• Contact address LMI/ Henriette van Eijl: [email protected]
Thank you for your attention