Science and Technology Parks: a driving force

for the knowledge-based economy in Europe

« Promoting industrial innovation and knowledge-intensive services through excellence: the potential for science and

technology parks to go centre stage in the European innovation systems»

Jose Freitas

DG Enterprise and Industry – Industrial Innovation Support Unit

Workshop IASP European Division 2010Brussels, 17th-19th November 2010

Why?

We fully share the view that science parks role in

the XXI century is a renewed one

Status?

An informed discussion but a discussion is a discussion,

is a discussion !

– Ideas are exploratory…are shared with you

- Not to lecture science parks what to do, not to explain the world of innovation, something else

- we can talk with science parks on innovation support for emerging industries, knowledge-based services and services innovation and CIP Competitiveness Innovation Programme achievements: Enterprise Europe Network, Clusters, Europa INNOVA

What ?

We see potential for science parks as

1. Renewed facilitation of entrepreneurship

2. Engines in innovation eco-systems

3. Service providers in the global market

What more specifically (2)?Renewed facilitation of entrepreneurship:

1. NETWORKING: fine-tuning innovation opportunity through access to European-wide innovation partners via

- clusters (1,200 in the EU)

- Enterprise Europe Network (over 560 SMEs-support bodies in 43 countries)

WHAT: awareness on innovation opportunity for tenant firms and local start-ups, engagement on European company visits, brokerage events, high-tech procurement, knowledge transfer (patents, etc)

WHAT FOR?: facilitating transnational collaboration between tenant firms and firms across the EU, facilitating out-sourcing ESA, F4E,

How? Business Model?

2. COACHING STAKEHOLDERS (?)

- university and knowledge centres

- risk capital providers, seed-capital, business angels

- industrial parks

WHAT: advise on innovation-related RTD and KIS, advise on collaborative innovation, advise on innovation management tools

WHAT FOR?: knowledge centres to connect RTD with high tech industrial opportunity, risk-capital providers to be better informed about businesses plans, industrial parks to upgrade innovation record of tenant firms

How? Business Model?

* Soon to develop

What more specifically (3)?

Innovation eco-systems :

1. INNOVATION PPP’S PUBLIC-PRIVATE-PARTNERSHIPSWHAT: advise on design and management, co-management of innovation infrastructure investment, eg competitive poles, innovation programmes (public programmes to attract FDI,

- Innovation infrastructure investment (eg competitiveness poles, creativity and talent investment programmes,c programmes to foster access to capital by start-ups and tenant firms for innovation etc

WHAT FOR?: accessing new pools of high tech a, knowledge and innovation out of public investment, facilitating transnational collaboration between tenant firms and firms across the EU, attracting FDI and after-care FDI, facilitating out-sourcing ESA, F4E,

How? Business Model?

2. Newtorking EU-wide- Enterprise Europe Network

- Europa INNOVA (innovation management support platform)

- Clusters Observatory

WHAT: access innovation collaborative opportunity, brokerage events, company visits, ESA, F4E procurement

WHAT FOR?: collaborative innovation and high tech and KIS out-sourcing for tenant firms

How? Business Model?

What more specifically (4)?Becoming global services providers: we see opportunity for European science parks in

1. acting as a knowledge sales force for their own constituencies (codified knowledge) in the global market

2. doing TT in the global market over uncodified knwoledge, eg

- affiliations, twinnings, coaching of science parks in neighbor countries, emerging economies (key-on-hand, blue prints for design and managment of science parks and innovation bodies – the Guggenheim NY and Bilbao model, Louvre with Dubai, Schwarzenegger’s Silicon Valley in Russia)

- design of education and training programmes (eg MIT – Portugal PhD programme

How can EU offer policy leadership (1)?

Policy support

an European platform hub for science parks to further acquire and extend excellence ?

– model: European Cluster Excellence Initiative

– feed-in mechanism: Europa INNOVA, EIT-KICs

- European Cluster Excellence Initiative: proficiency of cluster managers

How can EU offer policy leadership (2)?

Material opportunity

- growing awareness on the weight of services in GDP (especially the so-called KIS- Knowledge Intensive Services)

- industrial innovation market demand: emerging industries* and the so-called smart growth, green growth

* pervasive software, biogenetics, renweable energy technology, nano-materials,

alongside with KIS

How can the European Commission via or not DG Enterprise and Industry offer policy leadership to science parks (3)?

Policy opportunity

- CIP Competitiveness and Innovation Programme 2014/2017 ?

- experience on clusters, Europa INNOVA

- Innovation Union 2011+ measures:

- in a nutshell:

- ‘fixing’ the European Innovation system

- launching Innovation Partnerships* around particular goals (PPPs)

* European Innovation Partnerships are:Frameworks bringing together main actors and actions - At EU and national levels- From research to market - Around common objectives and targets: 2010 Pilot on active and

healthy ageing

Thank you for your time !

José Freitas, Policy Officer

Email: Jose.Freitas@ec.europa.eu

DG Enterprise and Industry,

Industrial Innovation Support Unit – headed by

Reinhard Buescher