Designing a policy mix

Designing a policy mix of innovation delivery instruments for stimulating knowledge absorption and entrepreneurial dynamism.

WORKSHOP ON MESURES FOR PUBLIC SUPPORT TO INNOVATION Agency for Innovation and Technology Transfer of Moldova

Chisinau, 31 March, 2015

Carmen SilleroHead of Division Strategy and Programmes

Agency of Innovation and Development of Andalusia

Designing a policy mix

• Why knowledge is so important?• Challenges for SMES• Facilitating the absorption process• Steps and Instrumetns for knowledge

absorption• EEN• Conclusions

Designing a policy mix

Why knowledge is so important?

Knowledge is the first factor of competitiveness between firms.

- Globalisation. Firms compete internationally- Firms need to distinct themselves from their competitors

by innovation, inventing new products, processes and services and doing so efficiently.

- Consumers make higher demands on the products they buy

- ICT development make that knowledge spread faster and faster

Designing a policy mix

Challenges for SMES

- Acquiring knowledge about many different aspects- Professionalisation of entrepreneurship- Attention to the combination and permanent

upgrading of technologies, even total disruption- Satisfying different performance demands at the

same time- With a hight speed- New forms of transference

Designing a policy mix

SME acquires knowledge mainly from suppliers, colleagues, competitors and clients, only a minor degree utilize the knowledge infrastructure for acquiring knowledge.

Universities and Technology centers must streamline their performance regarding business sector’s needs

For improving knowledge absorption an complete ecosystem around the SME is needed, where knowledge generators,

technology transfers institutions, services and technology providers, consumers….and public

administrations cooperate fluently.

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Identification of key knowledge of each domain and who holds it

SME’s awareness about new knowledge existing. Estimulate the need of absorving this new knowledge

Matching meetings between knowledge holders and regional potential users

Assessment of barriers and enabling factors of the firm

Facilitate funding possibilities and innovative services to make possible the absorption process and its transformation in added value for the company

Put at the disposal of the SME New skills, new HR trainning for specific competences

Monitoring and evaluation

Facilitating the absorption process. Steps

Designing a policy mix

Stimulate the need of absorbing new knowledge

Together with business, Identificate key knowledge of each domain

Demostrate how this knowledge works in real conditions

Detect who holds this knowledge

Market trends knowledge supply

Technological oversight

Mapping of the suppliers. Search for specific reserch or commercial application EEN

Fairs, international programmes to allow SMEs to become familiar with the novelties

Translating research results in an understandable language and evident facts for SME managers

Exhibitions demonstration and Pilot actions

Matching meetings between knowledge holders and regional potential users

Steps and Instruments for Knowledge absorption (1)

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The company needs to have all the relevant information in order to be able to asess scenarios

and to calculate the relation cost /benefit

Assessment of barriers and enabling factors of the firm

Diagnose

Need of Human skills

IT and knowledge management

Funding factors

Steps and Instruments for Knowledge absorption (2)

Tailor made supply of new knowledge

IPR management

New skills, new HR trainning for specific competences

Consultation services

Cooperation with suppliers or/and clients

Local universities, research and technology centers customize new knowledge to the SMEs needs

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Accompaniment along the innovation process

Facilitate funding possibilities to make possible the absorption process and its transformation in added value for the company

Innovation vouchers

Loans, guaranties, grants…

International Project

Monitoring and evaluation shared with beneficiaries

Public procurements

Steps and Instruments for Knowledge absorption (3)

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Designing a policy mix

ConclusionsKnowledge is the first factor of competitiveness between firms.

For improving knowledge absorption, an complete ecosystem around the SME is needed, where knowledge generators, technologies transfers institutions, services and technology providers, consumers….and public administrations works together

Knowledge absortion is a process where different instruments, steadily delivered at the demand of the company, should be implemented.

Innovation is a private decision based on cost-benefit analys. Decision can be facilitated by the environmental conditions created, such as removing barriers (red tape) and pushing incentives managed by the public administration (funding) , universities (skill, research, translation..)

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csillero@agenciaidea.es