Key Enabling Technologies for Regional Growth: synergies...

Key Enabling Technologies for Regional Growth:

synergies between Horizon 2020 and ESIF

6 May 2015

Session 1: Supporting Europe's Industrial

Innovation: How Smart Specialisation Can

Facilitate the Uptake of Key Enabling

Technologies

Smart Specialisation Strategies and Regional

Operational Programmes and Linkages with Key

Enabling Technologies

DG Research and Innovation (Unit D1-Key Enabling Technologies, Strategy)

Framework Contract “Provision of Services in the field of Research

Evaluation and Research Analysis” – Lot 3

Team Leader : Marc Pattinson, inno Group

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STUDY METHODOLOGY : MAIN ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN

Literature review to identify key

issues

Review of the documentation available

from public sources

Review of the information available from relevant Commission Services

Analysis of the current status of the S3 process

Designing the Online survey

Preparation of the database to ensure EU coverage : More than

500 contacts identified

Contact identified through : S3 Platform,

INFOREGIO, DG Regio, Partners’ networks...

Designing of the questionnaires

Implementing

Online survey

Piloted with 4 regions

Regular follow up of the participants with emails

reminders

Phone interviews…


Main Study Challenges

Availability of data (publicly available OP’s and final formats)

Cross cutting nature of the survey and information required from

regions (several services involved). Paucity of financial details.

Mapping based on willingness of regions to participate.

Main Results

Good national/regional coverage

More than 110 answers received with KET details for

83 EU regions covered of which 70 provide sub KET information levels

Good detail on Sub KETS level especially in NMP fields

Collection of project and actions information at a regional

Identification of interesting trends and good practices on sub KETs,

instruments and implementation actors.

RIS3/KETS STUDY RESULTS AND CHALLENGES


Main sectoral specialisations

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Main sectoral specialisations or priorities identified in RIS3 by survey respondents


KETs related to the areas of specialisation

(number of regions)

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Nanotechnology Micro-andnanoelectronics

Industrial biotechnology Photonics Advanced materials Advanced manufacturingsystems


Link to S3 Platform

KET priority Total result survey Total result S3 Platform

Advanced manufacturing systems 47 67

Advanced materials 52 71

Industrial Bio-technology 45 52

Nanotechnology 40 6

Micro-and Nano-electronics 34 11

Photonics 27 13

TOTAL 245 227

NB : S3 last accessed 6/10/14, results for EU28, increase also take account SW NUTS3

By comparing with S3 platform results concerning NUTS2 regions that

indicated one or more KET related priority, for Advanced manufacturing

systems, Advanced materials, Industrial Bio-technology, there is consistency

with the results of the survey, the other topics (Nano, Micro-electronics and

photonics) have differing results in the S3 platform.


RESULTS CONCERNING NMPs

Nanotechnologies,

Advanced Material

Advanced manufacturing systems

Biotechnology

Micro and nano electronics

Photonics

With a strong desire to identify sub

KET level information.


Nanotech Results

Most interest from regions for developing next generation

nanomaterials, nanodevices and nanosystems,

Societal dimension and safety-by-design few/no replies.

Efficient synthesis and manufacturing of nanomaterials,

components and systems, eg Puglia (ITF4) priorities various

sectors (aeronautics, health care, manufacturing, transport,

etc.).

On gaps to market and pilot lines

North-Est of Italy (ITH) concerning textile and manufacturing in particular

and

Scotland (UKM) through the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre at the

University of Glasgow which has a pilot line open to industry.


Nanotech results cont’d

On safe development and application of nanotechs:

A certain degree of possible overlap with the priority on safety and

regulation can be noted.

Haute Normandie (FR23) and North-East Italy (ITH) indicated

specific priorities.

Scotland (UKM) indicated this was a strong theme given the

SAFENANO center of excellence.

On safety and regulation:

Brussels Region (BE10) initiative NanoIRIS, aim to build center of

expertise i.a. on nanomaterial safety and regulatory requirements

Concerning measuring methods and equipment:

Haute-Normandie (FR23) has developed a dedicated platform for

instruments and analysis at the nanoscale


Regions of Finland are not shown in the current map due to diverging NUTS classification. From

the survey, the following regions demonstrated priorities in Nanotech: Pohjois-Karjala, Pirkanmaa,

Varsinais-Suomi, Päijät-Häme

Nanotechnology

Mapping results


Advanced Materials

Most popular: KET sector which generated the most

information in the project survey.

The cross-cutting and enabling materials

technologies and material development and

transformation and sustainable (low-carbon)

material energy solutions are the categories where

regions indicated most priorities.

Also priorities have been indicated concerning

metrology, standards and quality control.

Fewer priorities have been indicated for creative

industries, AMSSA (Advanced Materials Structures

& Systems) , support for SMEs and healthy aging


Advanced Materials (cont’d)

Cross-cutting and enabling materials technologies:

Certain French regions quite active in this field, notably

Bretagne (FR52) indicated priority in Multi-purpose materials

mainly for health and ICT applications,

Haute-Normandy (FR23) indicated the presence of a centre of

excellence on this topics (Genesis).

Material development and transformation:

Several regions identified priorities related to this sub-KET category

Concerning notably textiles, carbon fibres, composites for aviation,

special steels and other alloys, innovative materials for buildings,

energy (absorption, generation, storage, etc.),

Other more traditional sectors like food and health etc.


Advanced

Materials

Mapping results

Regions of Finland and Sweden are not shown in the current map due to diverging NUTS classification. From the survey,

the following regions demonstrated priorities in Advanced Materials: Pohjois-Pohjanmaa (FI), Pohjois-Karjala (FI),

Pohjanmaa (FI), Pirkanmaa (FI), Varsinais-Suomi (FI), Päijät-Häme (FI), Östra Mellansverige (SE), Norra Mellansverige

(SE) and Västsverige (SE). From the s3 platform, the following regions demonstrated priorities in Advanced Materials:

Östergötlands län (SE), Örebro län (SE), Skåne län (SE), Dalarnas län (SE), Västernorrlands län (SE).


Advanced Manufacturing Systems

Technologies for Factories of the Future

Regions have expressed most priorities, linked to

the sectoral or thematic priorities for regional

development.

Traditional industrial sectors or basins in regions.

Result of articulated regional economic

development strategies.

New sustainable business models

Attracted few responses and did not seem to be a

priority.

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Advanced Manufacturing Systems

Technologies enabling Energy-efficient buildings

Several priorities identified

often related to wider energy efficiency and energy transition

strategies objectives within the regional plans.

Sustainable and low-carbon technologies in energy-

intensive process industries.

Some priorities identified by various regions (eg MT, LR FR81,

BE03, etc.)

E.g. Cataluña (ES51) through the Vanguard Initiative, several

proposals for pilot projects in this field are being drafted together

with other regions, in particular focusing on energy efficiency,

emissions, waste and materials into global manufacturing

processes.

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Regions of Finland and Sweden are not shown in the current map due to diverging NUTS classification. From the survey, the following regions

demonstrated priorities in Advanced Manufacturing Systems: Pohjois-Pohjanmaa (FI), Pohjanmaa (FI), Pirkanmaa (FI), Varsinais-Suomi (FI),

Helsinki-Uusimaa (FI), Etelä-Pohjanmaa (FI),, Östra Mellansverige (SE), Norra Mellansverige (SE) and Västsverige (SE).

Advanced

Manufacturing

Mapping results


Main findings concerning other KETs

Industrial biotechnology

Priorities often related to biotechnologies as an innovation driver

and biotech based industrial processes (agro-food, food safety,

biomaterials and cosmetics).

Ionia Nisia (EL22) priority for marine biotechnologies in aquaculture

and protection of marine environment.

Innovative and competitive platform technologies attracted fewer

replies eg Languedoc-Roussillon (FR81) and region Wallonie (BE3)

Photonics

Priorities mostly related to lasers, photonic sensors, etc.

Interest in possible combinations with Micro-and nanoelectronics,

Oxford (UKJ1) indicated photonics as an enabling technology in

their RIS3.

Micro- and nanoelectronic

Centres of excellence (Ireland IE0) and industrial base (Scotland -

UKM).


Financing

The survey indicates that several regions envisage

synergies in financing KET actions from various sources

including H2020.

Amounts provided are indicative, big disparities exist and

it is not possible to distinguish if solely one source .

Some regions indicated possibility to use H2020 to co-

finance KETs in their RIS3, only one (ITH) indicated solely

H2020

Issues of sequencing and coordination, possible solutions

networking companies and knowledge, of projects

coordinating funding in order to exploit the results from Horizon

2020 projects, Use of “downstream sequential financing” with

Horizon 2020 projects.

To build capacity of local actors to enhance participation

Single agency (ESIF, NCP)


Measures and instruments to support

the adoption of KETs

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Yes

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KEY CONCLUSIONS

The study presents a snapshot of the situation concerning

the development of RIS3 and KETs in different regions

in mid 2014.

The subject is clearly an ongoing process.

The results show that RIS3 and their associated OPs

provide an important opportunity for funding and

implementing KET related actions.

Identification of some emerging trends, for example

cross-KET activities, support of Platform initiatives, role of

implementation actors (clusters, academic community...).

Regional stakeholders are interested in exploiting

synergies between the various planning and funding

frameworks to support KETs actions and providing

conditions for excellence.

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KEY RECOMMENDATIONS: OP’S AND KETS

1.Stronger policy and political support => Consider ways to provide additional

methodological guidance and training. And encourage systematic approaches.

Review scope for launching demonstrator or pilot projects.

2. Stakeholder involvement => RIS3 development and consultation processes

should involve H2020 actors. Survey results show that research community is

involved and private sector often via clusters.

3. Links with other initiatives => The Interreg programme, the role of clusters and

universities and research centres linked to selected KETs could play a more important

role in implementing regional activities.

4. Platforms and innovation infrastructures => The “platform approach” provides

the best mechanism for developing specialisations, creating critical mass and

providing the visibility to attract and stimulate other investors and users and create

comparative advantages.

5. Enabling synergies => Better alignment of strategies and implementation

modalities => a challenge given the different implementation and management

processes

6. Better coordination and monitoring => Consider ways to enhance the use of

coordinated tools or framework at national level for sharing KETs-related information,

good practices and demonstration projects with neighbouring regions.

Thank you

The report can be obtained from:

http://ec.europa.eu/research/industrial_technologies/pdf/a

nalysis_of_RIS3_in_NMP.pdf

or by contacting [email protected]

http://ec.europa.eu/research/industrial_technologies/pdf/analysis_of_RIS3_in_NMP.pdf

http://ec.europa.eu/research/industrial_technologies/pdf/analysis_of_RIS3_in_NMP.pdf

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Annexes


Eleven groups of questions were drafted to cover various aspects of the study :

Personal information (Providing the contact person/organisation and the right

RIS3 NUTs level)

Regional/National Innovation Smart Specialisation Strategy (RIS3) State of play

Main sectoral specialisations or priorities identified

Stakeholders involved in identifying these priorities

Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) related to the areas of specialisation of the

region

Specific cross-sectoral KET thematics included in the S3 strategy and/or OP

Support required for other KETs

Financing instruments

Regional support for the diffusion and adoption of Key Enabling Technologies

Assistance (technical expertise) needed by the regions on KETs

A series of questions on the usage of the S3 Platform tools and services

ONLINE SURVEY

6 May 2015

Stairway to Excellence (S2E)

Achieving better synergies between ESI Funds and other EU Funding Programmes

Tereza Krausová Competence Centre 'Smart and Sustainable Growth'

DG Regional and Urban Policy, EC

Background on Pilot "Synergy" Project

Fragmentation of innovation policies at EU level (SEG 2011) • Sub-optimal coordination of RDI as well as CPs at European, national and regional level, both within and between these levels; • Lack of common strategies related to Europe 2020; • Lack of a coherent and interacting governance structure; • Weak complementarities / compatibilities / interoperability of policies and programmes, particularly regarding the regional dimension in RDI policy and the RDI dimension in regional policy; • Lack of instruments aimed at supporting the pooling of European and national funds; • Poor communication, coordination and cooperation between actors and stakeholders at all levels. Synergies as the alignment of and cooperation between policy frameworks, programmes and actions allowing more and better attainment of their objectives.

Downstream

R&D Innovation Market Capacity Building

Horizon 2020 Frontier research (ERC, FET)

ERA-Net, JP, EUREKA … Marie Curie

KICs

ESI Funds

R&I Infrastructures and

Equipment (IP1)

National/Regional

R&I systems

IP: Investment Priorities under the R&I thematic objective of the ERDF Regulation

Upstream

Excellent R&I

Demonstration Pilots

PPPs

procurement ESFRI

Business Advisory

services

KETs (IP1)

prizes

SME instrument Skills

"Research

Excellence"

"Stairway to Excellence" Hopefully also excellence, but

"Innovation Excellence"

How about synergies

with Horizon2020?

Concept of synergies

Improve the quality of national & regional innovation policies, including type of support measures

Enhance the impact of investments, incl. "durability",

links btw. projects, building on previous projects of other instruments

Amplify projects / initiatives by joining forces under

different funds to generate critical mass: cumulation / alternative funding

Strengthen cooperation and complementarity across Europe by teaming up different capacities in leading and

lagging regions thanks to smart specialisation

Strengthen cooperation between innovation actors and policies relevant for innovation (skilled

& creative people, research, enterprises, investors, market access, different Ministries and departments and on different levels, legal and administrative framework conditions…)

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What are NOT synergies?

• NO substituting of national or regional or private co-funding to projects or programmes by money from the other instruments

• NO diversion of funding away from the purpose of the respective instrument / operational programme (e.g. smart specialisation strategy)

• NO simple "run for the money": Maximising the acquisition of additional funding from H2020 for a MS / region is no good objective, as this is no durable impact.

Rationale Supporting synergies in the use of two important EU RDI funding sources (ESIF & Horizon 2020) may deliver additional gains in terms of: innovation results close the innovation gap in Europe promote economic growth The overall political rationale of identifying synergies between ESIF, H2020 and other RDI programmes is to maximize impact and efficiency of public funding. • Innovation funds increased under cohesion policy from 6% of the

funds in the 2000-06 period to around 25% in the 2007-13 period

• Roughly 9% of the public spending on RDI in the EU came from the EU budget, divided almost equally between the 7th FP & the ESIF

Objectives

As ex-ante conditionality for ESIF spending in RDI, MSs & Regions have to design their RIS3 by identifying a limited number of R&D and industrial activities with high innovation potential. This innovation potential may be further reinforced & developed by

using ESIF in order to make catching-up MSs & regions more competitive in spatially blind & excellence-based H2020 calls.

Beyond a stronger innovation generation capacity, there is room for increasing the innovation absorption capacity by new MSs in the context of past FP projects.

The project would have two main objectives, namely: The provision of assistance to EU13 to enhance the value of these

two EU funding sources for R&I by promoting their combination; Stimulating the early and effective implementation of national and

regional Smart Specialisation Strategies.

UE13 (% of FP7)

UE15 (% of FP7)

FP7

EC Contribution (in M€) 1 883.6 (4.2%)

37 852.2 (85.3%) 44 364

EC contribution per inhabitant (in €)

17.8 95.2 78.9 (UE28)

Number of participations 10 637 (8%) 105 731 (79.8%) 132 382

Number of coordinations 1 011 (4%) 20 301 (81%) 25 052

• EU13 is representing only 4.2% of FP7 budget with a decreasing trend along the period 2007-2014.

Where do we Stand?

Share of EC FP7 contribution received between 2007 and 2014 (starting from FP6)

86.7% 90.0% 84.2% 84.1% 84.5% 84.9% 86.3% 85.9% 84.9%

5.03%

3.25%

5.47%4.72%

3.91% 4.43% 3.96% 4.04%3.14%

5.60% 5.38%

7.90% 8.29% 8.84% 7.96% 7.64% 8.35%10.61%

1.00%

10.00%

100.00%

UE15

UE13

ASSOCIATEDCOUNTRIES

Where do we Stand?

Recognizing the

strong Territorial

impact in space-blind

policies

For instance, less developed

regions are less successful

as FPs funding recipients

(Source: 5th Cohesion Report)

Funding Distribution of 7th FP by Regions

"Stairway to Excellence" Pilot Project

• MEUR 1.2 + 1.5 EP pilot project (runs until end 2016)

• Implementation by REGIO and the IPTS-JRC to benefit from complementarities with S3Platform

• Cooperation with

MIRRIS FP7 project and

Horizon2020 "Widening"

actions

• Web-site:

http://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/stairway-to-excellence








Launching "Upstream actions" to prepare regional R&I players to participate in Horizon 2020 through capacity mapping & capacity building. Mapping / providing new MSs & regions with analyses and evaluation of

their past performance in FPs, strengths and weaknesses in terms of R&I capacity, institutional features, & alignment between public R&I and business innovation needs.

Review the structures and instruments used by EU13 MSs/regions through

tailor made national events, gathering the relevant actors to enhance participation to H2020 & exploit synergies between H2020 and ESIF.

• Communication & cooperation between Horizon 2020 national contact points & managing authorities of the ESIF shall be strengthened. • New mandate of the S3P Mirror group of stakeholders in order to reinforce consultation and advice of stakeholders.

ACTION 1: Assistance to new MSs in closing the innovation gap, promote excellence in all regions and MSs of the EU

CAPACITY MAPPING FP7 specialisation indicator (i.e. CZ)

CZ06 CZ FP7

Food, Agriculture and Fisheries2,8% 5,8% 4,6%

Biotechnology 0,2% 2,8% 2,0%

Health 6,0% 11,1% 20,0%

ICT 20,2% 22,7% 28,5%

Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies6,4% 5,8% 2,8%

Materials 1,4% 3,5% 2,7%

New production technologies (incl. Construction technologies)0,4% 2,5% 1,8%

Integration of nanothechnologies for industrial applications (JTI ENIAC Incl.)33,8% 14,1% 6,2%

Energy 0,5% 3,8% 7,6%

Environment 3,4% 5,8% 6,2%

Aeronautics and Space12,3% 9,3% 3,6%

Space 0,7% 2,6% 2,8%

Automotive 0,1% 0,7% 1,0%

Rail 0,8% 0,8% 0,6%

Waterborne 0,1% 0,0% 0,7%

Urban transport and intermodalities6,3% 3,1% 2,1%

Socio economic sciences and humanities2,5% 2,1% 2,1%

Security 2,1% 3,2% 4,6%

100,0% 100,0% 100,0%

CAPACITY MAPPING Main collaboration axis at regional and stakeholder level

(i.e. Małopolska)

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ACTION 2: Stimulating the early and effective implementation of national and regional Smart

Specialisation Strategies

Launching "Downstream actions" to provide the means to exploit and diffuse R&I results, stemming from Horizon 2020 & preceding programmes, in line with priorities identified in the relevant S3. Objective for 2015: develop/test some methodologies to do it effectively (full deployment of those methodologies in subsequent years). Some possible actions in 2014/2015 are as follows: • Identifying a limited number of common thematic priorities within RIS3 of

several new MS/regions. Potential high impact from horizontal priorities such as Key Enabling Technologies (KET) and ICT.

• Assessing selected on-going or recently finalised Framework Programme projects in these areas.

• Events with project participants from leading countries, business, research community and policy makers from new MS/regions and stakeholders. These events may try different formats to see which one would be most effective for wide transmission of knowledge.

Presentation of the general concept of Synergies between EU funding (guide)

Presentation of case studies (already implemented synergies)

Six "coffee table" sessions on the following topics

• Funding Horizon 2020 shortlisted proposals with ESIF: selection of operations and administrative burden, evaluation criteria

• Consecutive funding of projects – uptake of FP/Horizon 2020 results onto the market

• Consecutive funding of projects – capacity building and awareness raising to enhance participation into Horizon 2020 – human capital

• Consecutive funding of projects – capacity building - funding R&I infrastructures with ESIF

• Smart specialisation strategies: the role of NCPs and managing authorities in the fostering of synergies

• Networking and the cross-border dimension of synergies

First feedback on the S2E Launch conference

National S2E Events • A better understanding of the specific national

innovation ecosystem

• Raising awareness of the actions needed to enable synergies between different EU funding programmes

• Sharing experiences in combining different EU funds

The events will be open for national and

regional MAs, NCPs, national authorities

in charge of RIS3, selected experts and

representatives from business and

research organisations.

Croatia (March 2015)

Latvia (April 2015)

Slovakia (June 2015)

Expected Forthcoming Events:

Poland, Romania

• Not just about increasing H2020 funding

• but

• policy synergies

Improve coordination of national and regional policies

Strengthen cooperation between innovation actors and policies relevant for innovation

Generate critical mass of knowledge

Enhance (economic) effectiveness of investments

Strengthen cooperation and complementarity across Europe

Stairway to Excellence

S2E Rationale & Case Studies

Links and documents

Guide for authorities on synergies between ESIF and Horizon2020 and other EU programmes

http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docgener/guides/synergy/synergies_en.pdf

DG REGIO: http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/

S3Plattform (incl. Eye@RIS3 database of specialisation intentions): http://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu

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http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/

http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/

http://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

http://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

Thank you for your attention

Contact: [email protected]

Cohesion Policy


Fernando Hervás Antonio Vezzani EC - Joint Research Centre Knowledge for Growth (J.2) Serving society Stimulating innovation Supporting legislation

Evidence-based support to region's

investments in KETs

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Policy context • The European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) and

its contribution to the Europe 2020 goals.

• A need to address: How to make better use of ESIF for innovation (>100 000 million euro)?

• Subsequent need to assist EU national and regional policy-makers in the establishment and implementation of RIS3, an ex-ante conditionality in the relevant regulation

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JRC response

The Joint JRC/REGIO Smart Specialisation Platform Created in 2011 to provide science-based professional advice to EU national and regional policy-makers for the establishment and implementation of their research & innovation strategies for smart specialisation (RIS3). A privileged perspective:

Outside the Commission - Support to implementing RIS3s and to their "triple/quadruple helix" Inside the Commission - Support to the policy DGs (e.g. by assessing ESIF programming documents: 28 PAs and > 150 OPs) Within the scientific community - Conceptual and method

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The activities of S3 Platform in support of RIS3s

2. Trans-national learning, Peer Review &

thematic workshops

4. RIS3 assessment and support to REGIO desks ; ICT experts

3. Country- and Macro-region events and

targeted seminars at IPTS

6. Interactive tools, S3 Newsletter and Website

1. The RIS3 methodological

Guide & the Digital Agenda Toolbox

5. Inter-regional collaboration

7. Research agenda

Eye@RIS3

http://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/s3pguide

Stairway to Excellence (as of June 2014)

Pilot Project financed by the European Parliament

Promote synergies of ESIF and H2020,

particularly in EU-13:

~15 Case studies in 2015

National/regional fiches analysing RIS3

priorities vs areas of FP success

Analysis of national policy instruments

and barriers to promote synergies

Analysis of instruments to exploit/transfer

results of FP projects

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Less developed regions are less successful as FPs funding recipients

(Source: 5th Cohesion Report)

S2E Rationale & Case Studies

Stairway to Excellence

ACTION 1: Assistance to new MSs in closing the innovation gap, promote

excellence in all regions and MSs of the EU.

Launching "Upstream actions" to prepare regional R&I players to participate in Horizon 2020

through capacity mapping & capacity building.

ACTION 2: Stimulating the early and effective implementation of national and

regional Smart Specialisation Strategies

Launching "Downstream actions" to provide the means to exploit and diffuse R&I results,

stemming from Horizon 2020 & preceding programmes, in line with priorities identified in the

relevant S3.

Among the actions envisaged in 2015 /2016:

• Identifying a limited number of common thematic priorities within RIS3 of several new

MS/regions. Potential high impact from horizontal priorities such as Key Enabling

Technologies (KET) and ICT.

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Mapping regions' KETS priorities and capabilities

JRC contribution to the final report of the KETs High Level Group - Overview of KETs related priorities in region's RIS3 (Eye@RIS3 database). - Technological capabilities of EU regions, based On patent analysis (OECD REGPAT database). On-going: Exploit patent data on world top R&D Investors. More than 90% of world R&D investments financed and implemented By the business sector.

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‘Micro- and Nano-electronics’ and ‘Photonics’ account for about 30% of KETs-related patent filings in Europe. Their share over KETs-related RIS3 priorities has decreased and currently stands at about 10%. While 20% of all KETs-related priorities have been registered in the ‘Industrial Biotechnology’ group of KETs, the actual share of relevant patent filings is somewhat low at 11.5%.

Distribution of KETs-related patents (2009/11) Distribution of registered KETs-related priorities

in RIS as of Jan. 2015

KET-related patents by Region (NUTS2) - 2009/11

Out of a total of 293 regions with at least one patent filed during the period analysed, 253 have registered at least one KET-related patent. A small number of regions perform particularly well when it comes to registering KETs-related patents. 44% of KETs-related patents come from 10 regions In terms of total KETs related patents, the top performer is Île-de-France with 2,488 filings over the period considered.

Top performers include also: • 6 Regions from Germany (Upper Bavaria, Stuttgart, Rheinhessen-Pfalz, Düsseldorf, Cologne, and Darmstadt) • 1 from the Netherlands (North Brabant) • 1 from Italy (Lombardy) • 1 from France (Rhône-Alpes)

Regions with Nanotechnology related patents (2009/11)

Regions with Advanced Manufacturing related patents (2009/11)

Technologies in the field of Advanced Manufacturing Systems appear to be the most patented KETs group across Europe. There are currently a total of 223 regions with at least 1 patent application related to Advanced Manufacturing Systems

Nanotechnology-related patents have been filed in 97 regions. The overall number of applications filed is by far the lowest group of KETs-related patents. NT-related patents appear to be quite concentrated among the top ten performing regions, which own over one half (53%) of all European patents.

Not all KETs have to date made it to national smart specialisation strategies. As of

January 2015, none of the EU Member States with priorities registered in the Eye@RIS3

database has chosen a national RIS3 priority linked to either ‘Photonics’ or

‘Nanotechnology’.

Over 80 per cent of all KETs-related RIS3 priorities belong to three KETs groups.

Priorities in just three groups (‘Advanced Manufacturing Systems’, ‘Advanced Materials’ and

‘Industrial Biotechnology’) remain the largest group of all KETs-related RIS3 priorities.

A strong and consistent increase in the number of priorities in two KETs groups:

‘Advanced Manufacturing Systems’ and ‘Advanced Materials’. Their accumulative

share of all KETs-related priorities has increased from 51.3% in 2013 to 64.2% in January

2015.

A substantial decrease in the number of priorities in other groups of KETs. The

overall share of other KETs-related priorities (‘Industrial Biotechnology’, ‘Photonics’, ‘Micro-

and Nanoelectronics’ and ‘Nanotechnology’) has witnessed a consistent drop. The drop has

been particularly severe in Nanotechnology 10.40% -> 2.60%

Thank you for your attention!

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Policy Research and Innovation

Accelerating Smart Specialisation through Horizon 2020

Conference “Key Enabling Technologies for Regional Growth:

synergies between Horizon 2020 and the European Structural and Investment Funds"

Dimitri CORPAKIS

Head of Unit, Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation, Directorate for the Innovation Union and the European Research Area

Directorate General for Research and Innovation European Commission

Brussels, May 6, 2015


Taking stock of the Europe 2020 strategy (1)

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Taking stock of the Europe 2020 strategy (2)

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The promise of Horizon 2020

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• 80 billion euro research and innovation funding programme (2014-2020);

• A core part of Europe 2020, Innovation Union & European Research Area:

• Responding to the economic crisis to invest in future jobs and growth > Addressing people’s concerns about their livelihoods, safety and environment > Strengthening the EU’s global position in research, innovation and technology

Novelties • A single programme bringing together three separate programmes/initiatives

• Coupling research to innovation – from research to retail, all forms of innovation

• Focus on societal challenges facing EU society, e.g. health, clean energy and transport

• Continuation of investment in frontier research

• Simplified access, for all companies, universities, institutes in all EU countries and beyond.

Three priorities- KETs underpin horizontally all of them!

Excellent science

Industrial leadership

Societal challenges


Horizon 2020 – Structural effects Multiple partnerships forms possible Public private partnerships:

Through Joint Technology Initiatives or other formal structures (Art. 187) / Through contractual agreements, which provide inputs for work programmes /

Only when criteria met, e.g. clear commitments from private partners

Public-public partnerships:

Through « ERA-Nets » for topping up individual calls/actions (replacing current ERA-Net, ERA-Net Plus, Inco-Net, Inno-net)

Through participation in joint programmes between Member States (Art. 185) / Supporting agendas of Joint Programming Initiatives when in line with Horizon 2020

Only when criteria met, e.g. financial commitments of participating countries

European Innovation Partnerships:

Not funding instruments, but for coordination with broader policies and programmes

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Boosting innovative SMEs

Integrated approach - around 20% of the total budget for societal challenges and LEITs is estimated to benefit dynamic and innovative SMEs

Simplification of particular benefit to SMEs (e.g. single entry point)

A new SME instrument active across all societal challenges as well as for the LEITs

A dedicated activity for research-intensive SMEs in 'Innovation in SMEs'

'Access to risk finance' with a strong SME focus (debt and equity facility)


Smart Specialisation for regional growth

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• Identify the key growth opportunities for a given country/ region that can make a difference : often at the intersection of well-known sectors

• Build on the concept of Related Variety to identify technology choices

• Think about strategic technological diversification on areas of relative strength and potential

• Stimulate innovation through entrepreneurship, modernisation, adaptation

• Dare to introduce innovative governance solutions

• Promote new linkages, synergies and spill-overs

• Open up to the world – increase internationalisation

•Adapted from Philip McCann (2012)


How can I use Horizon 2020: A Regional

Toolbox for Accelerating Change

Accelerate change identified through Smart Specialisation using all available instruments and policies in the Union – a call for Synergies !

Use in particular Horizon 2020 to boost identified technology choices and policies; Horizon 2020 has plenty of opportunities for companies, universities and public and private research organisations, for an in depth approach in technology development, advanced partnering and innovative funding

When planning large scale investments in research and innovation identified in the Operational Programmes, think about complementary actions for boosting research, knowledge and innovation through Horizon 2020

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Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation:

regional benefits and spill-overs

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Disparities in R&I excellence and innovation performance: barrier to competitiveness, growth and jobs across Europe

• Some countries are experiencing low participation in the EU Framework Programmes because of:

insufficient national R&D investments

lack of synergies between national research systems and the EU research landscape

system learning effects

reduced access to international networks

problems with information, communication and training

New set of measures in Horizon 2020 under Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation:

- Teaming (institution building linked to RIS3)

- Twinning (institutional networking – link to RIS3 desirable but not compulsory)

- ERA Chairs (bringing excellence to institutions – loosely linked to RIS3)

- NCPs (information, communication, support)

- Policy Support Facility (support for R&I Policy design)

- Support to COST ( stimulating cross border science networks – intergovernmental cooperation framework)

- NO COHESION BUT PERFORMANCE BASED ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

Total Budget in H2020 ~ € 800 million


The need for Synergies: optimising interactions

between H2020 actions and the ESIF Operational Programmes

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Obtaining more impacts on competitiveness, jobs and growth by combining ESIF and Horizon 2020

Amplifying projects / initiatives under the other instrument

Carrying further the projects of the other instrument towards the market (downstream)

Exploit complementarities while at the same time avoid overlaps and exclude double-financing (fraud)

… but beware ! :

NO substitution of national, regional or private co-funding to projects or programmes by money from the other instruments


Synergies – who is in the driving seat ?

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Key role for national and regional authorities as they plan future investments on research and innovation, including through the ESIF (buildings but also RTDI Projects)

Research stakeholders (Public/ private): they should be better informed about the said investment plans and operational measures from their National/ Regional ESIF related Managing Authorities

Horizon NCPs and Enterprise Europe Network CPs: an information, guidance and co-planning role

Commission services

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