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Cooperation of Regions for Innovation
CORINNA Benchmarking of cross-border innovation
policy in the core Alpe Adria Region - INTERREG project CORINNA
DAMJAN KAVAŠ,
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Overview
Basic Information on CORINNA project.
Benchmarking of regional innovation policies:
Methodological issues. Lessons learned.
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Overview
Basic Information on CORINNA project
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CORINNA PartnersStuttgart Region
Economic Development Corp.
Stuttgart, D
Carinthian Economic Promotion Fund (KWF)
Klagenfurt, A
JoanneumResearch
Graz, A
Friuli Innovazione
Udine, I
Institute for Economic Research (IER)
Ljubljana, SI
Economy Service Burgenland (WIBAG)
Eisenstadt, A
West Hungarian Research Institute
Györ, H
Hungarian Science and Technology
Foundation Budapest, H
Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
Vienna, A
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Starting Point - A Diagnosis
Intensity of interregional/cross-border cooperation of partner regions in technology & innovation lacks behind comparable European regions:
on administrative level,
on company level.
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Cooperation barriers
Huge differences in governmental structures (e.g. federal vs. centralistic),
different regulations, policies, support programmes,
different levels of economic development,
low knowledge about competencies of neighbour regions.
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Outputs & Results – Population
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Stuttgart Friuli-VeneziaGiulia
Nyugat-Dunántúl
Burgenland Kärnten Steiermark Slovenia
Popula
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Annual g
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no. of population 2005 annual grow th rate 1995-2005 (in %)
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Outputs & Results – GRP/hab. PPS
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GRP/hab. PPS, 2003 (EUR) Annual grow th rate 1995-2003 (in %)
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Output & Results – Regional R&D Capacities
0,00% 1,00% 2,00% 3,00% 4,00%
EU 25
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
West Transdanubia
Burgenland
Carinthia
Styria
Slovenia
2003
1998
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CORINNA Innovation Policy Benchmarking
All countries and regions involved are looking to innovation and innovation policy as pivotal for tackling the structural challenges facing their economies, because innovation is key to competitiveness.
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Overview
Benchmarking of regional innovation policies:
Methodological issues. Lessons learned.
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CORINNA Innovation Policy Benchmarking
Benchmarking is a powerful technique that provides practical learning through comparing measurements, policies or outcomes, across industries, sectors, policies, products or services.
The meaning of benchmarking is constant learning, improving and pursuing performance. Through breaking the traditional way of thinking the method encourages the openness and improves originality and adopting 3-A policies: Adopt, Adapt, Advance.
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CORINNA Innovation Policy Benchmarking
Motivations for policy benchmarking are: To understand where improvements have to be
made. Understand factors involving performance of
policies. Learning from “good practices” or “not so good
practices”. Setting standard and targets for performance. Taking part in the process is already helping to
learn: “naming and shaming”.
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CORINNA Innovation Policy Benchmarking
General socio-economicperformance
Innovation performance
Innovation policy instruments
Other factors
Synergy between innovation policy instruments
“Good” and “not so good” practice
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CORINNA Innovation Policy Benchmarking - Approach
Short comparison of socio-economic performance of the regions involved.
Detailed description of innovation performance: list of indicators.
Short description of R&D policy and detailed description of innovation policy instruments: regional level, national level, interregional level according to the template (standardization)
Assessment of synergy between innovation policy instruments (synergy matrix).
Comparing performance of the regions (socio-economic, innovation) and its innovation policy mix based on evaluation studies and expert opinion.
Identification of examples and description of “good” and “not so good” practice (instruments, policy mix) in innovation policy in each region, because policy success and failures often contain many valuable lessons for others regions.
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Detailed description of innovation performance: list of indicators
A. Indicators concerning the System of Production
B. Human Resources Indicators
C. Indicators concerning Knowledge Creation and Awareness
D. Indicators concerning Development of Innovation
Indicators chosen should be: available, acceptable
and comparable.
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CORINNA Innovation Policy Benchmarking
The effectiveness of innovation policy depends not only on the design and implementation of individual policy instruments for innovation (e.g. tax incentives, public/private partnership programmes), but also on the way instruments are combined into policy mixes that offer complementary and mutually reinforcing support for regional/national innovation systems.
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CORINNA Innovation Policy Benchmarking
1. Country
2. Geographical coverage: National or Regional (state region):
3. Name of measure:
4. Classification number according to objective:
5. Official documents proposing the measure (legal acts, strategies, programmes):
6. Overview (description):
7. Objectives:
8. Rationality underlying the measure (justification):
9. Name of responsible organisation:
10. Beneficiaries:
11. Annual budget (€):
12. Start date:
13. End date:
14. Status during reported period (ongoing/modified/new):
15. Does the measure receive central funding or regional funding or both:
16. Information Source/Reference (web site):
17. Evaluated:
18. To what extent has the measure been coordinated with other measures (synergy):
19. Other Comments:
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CORINNA Innovation Policy Benchmarking
I. Improve innovation governance and strategic intelligence for policy-making I.1. Development of a strategic medium-to-long term vision of innovation challenges and innovation potential I.2. Increase understanding of the nature of drivers and barriers of innovation activity in enterprises with a view to informing the policy-making process I.3. Improve the effectiveness of the policy-cycle in order to increase the impact of public intervention activity and outputs in enterprises I.4. Encourage mutual policy learning and networking between policy-making at regional, national and EU levels II. Foster an innovation friendly environment II.1. Enhancing the role of public procurement and standardisation as drivers of new innovative products services by enterprises II.2. Reducing the administrative and transaction costs for enterprises in fulfilling their legal, administrative, fiscal, etc. obligations II.3. Maximising the positive influence of new legislation or regulations on innovation activity in enterprises II.4. Increase rates of expenditure on research and technological innovation in enterprises II.5. Encourage the uptake of strategic technologies, notably ICT III. Encourage technology and knowledge transfer to enterprises and development of innovation poles and clusters III.1. Facilitate access of enterprises to skilled personnel III.2. Facilitate the acquisition and transfer of knowledge ad technologies to enterprises, encouraging in particular cross-border initiatives III.3. Increase the availability, range and quality of specialised services to enterprises in order to increase the effectiveness of their in-house innovation activities III.4. Increase the availability of innovative infrastructures to facilitate knowledge exchange and product/service development by enterprises III.5. Ensuring that the future skills base in the region/sector/country will correspond to the innovation needs of enterprises III.6. Facilitate the development of collaboration between enterprises and other actors with a view to joint innovation activities and knowledge exchange IV. Promote and sustain the creation and growth of innovative enterprises IV.1. Increase the number of new innovation intensive enterprises created and their survival IV.2. Provide adequate infrastructure to new technology based firms to facilitate their survival and growth IV.3. Favouring the entry of innovative enterprises and business models to sectoral, regional or national markets IV.4. Increase the availability of private sector innovation financing to enterprises IV.5. Optimising the legal/regulatory framework for the development of private innovation financing IV.6. Promote adequate support to enterprises aimed at new and developing markets V. Strengthen entrepreneurial innovation including the protection and commercialisation of intellectual property V.1. Upgrading innovation related skills and diffusing new technologies in enterprises V.2. Increase rates of non-technological innovation in enterprises V.3. Favouring the protection and optimising the exploitation of intellectual property as a driver for innovation V.4. Increase the rate of commercialisation/marketing of the results of innovation activity in enterprises
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CORINNA Innovation Policy Benchmarking
OBJECTIVE I.1. Development of a strategic medium-to-long term vision of innovation challenges and innovation potential
I.2. Increase understanding of the nature of drivers and barriers of innovation activity in enterprises with a view to informing the policy-making process
I.3. Improve the effectiveness of the policy-cycle in order to increase the impact of public intervention activity and outputs in enterprises
I.4. Encourage mutual policy learning and networking between policy-making at regional, national and EU levels
Carinthia Innovation Assistant; Knowledge Management for SMEs
Burgenland Grants for sustainable, innovative or technology-oriented business areas
Clusters and Networks in the region of Burgenland
Styria Promotion of Start-ups; Qualification and Training in Networks
FVG Regional Law no. 5/2006; Regional Developing Plan 2006-2008; Regional Law no. 4/2005; Regional Law no. 26/2005; Regional Law no. 11/2003; Regional Law no. 3/2002; Regional strategic plan 2005-2008; Law 46/82 »Rotative Special Fund for Technologic Innovation«
Regional Law no. 11/2003; Regional Law no. 3/2002; Regional strategic plan 2005-2008
Slovenia Incentives to joint development & investment projects 2006-2007; Technology equipment subsidies for SMEs; Voucher system for consultancy and training services
Support to research & development projects in enterprises 2006/07; Development of innovation infrastructure
Technology equipment subsidies for SMEs; Voucher system for consultancy and training services
West Transdanubia
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CORINNA Innovation Policy Benchmarking
OBJECTIVE I.1
I.2 I.3 I.4 II.1 II.2 II.3 II.4 II.5 III.1 III.2 III.3 III.4 III.5 III.6 IV.1 IV.2 IV.3 IV.4 IV.5 IV.6 V.1 V.2 V.3 V.4
Carinthia 2 1 3 1 1 3 1 1 1 5 1 1 2 1 1 4 2 2 Burgenland 1 1 3 3 3 3 2 1 3 3 2 3 3 1 1 Styria 2 2 1 1 2 FVG 8 3 2 5 4 7 4 5 1 4 3 3 6 8 6 3 4 1 3 1 Slovenia 3 2 2 1 1 5 5 2 3 1 1 1 1 6 4 3 3 2 6 2 1 West Transdanubia
1 1 2 1 3 1 2 2 2 2 3 3
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Some lessons learned
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Detailed description of innovation performance: list of indicators - lessons learned
Due to unavailability of data on regional level indicators concerning development of innovation (e.g. share of innovative enterprises, innovation expenditures, sales of product innovations from manufacturing enterprises, new enterprises per sector) had to be excluded from the benchmarking exercise.
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Innovation Policy Benchmarking - lessons learned
Comparability of data is limited due to many differences: Objectives of instruments differ even within “similar
instruments” – subjective classification. Time frames of instrument. Financial investments. Implementation models. Governance levels: national innovation policy instruments
are still dominant at the regional level. “Zero base” levels are not similar. Influence of socio-economic context (economic structure,
history, …).
IT IS DIFFICULT TO DEFINE “REGIONAL” INNOVATION POLICY MIX!
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Innovation Policy Benchmarking - lessons learned
Innovation policy instruments operate in a specific national/federal or regional institutional setting and governance structure.
The effectiveness of policies depends on their role in a regional/national innovation system. Therefore innovation policy instruments part of a “policy mix”: their effectiveness and relevance depend on other policy measures.
There are different approaches at the regional level as on national or international level. It becomes apparent that regional, national and European policy actors and organisations can shape the development and dynamics of regional innovation systems (multi level governance).
Transferability/diffusion of policies is limited: Policy conclusions which are drawn from the analysis of “success stories” are only of limited use for less favoured regions, as their innovation capabilities deviate in many respects from these role models.
There is no evaluation culture at the regional level.
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Innovation Policy Benchmarking - lessons learned
Interregional regional innovation policy benchmarking is beneficial in order to learn from success factors and pitfalls in other countries and adapt to own situation.
There is a need for extensive discussion on results of the benchmarking process – expert groups.
Policy makers should play an active role during the process in order to support the process and to be aware of methodological pitfalls.
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Innovation Policy Benchmarking - lessons learned
Thank you for your kind attention!
Damjan Kavaš Contact: [email protected]