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Regions for Economic Change : fostering competitiveness through innovative technologies, products and healthy communitiesPAULO GOMESBrussels, 7-8 March 2007: 

Regions for Economic Change : fostering competitiveness through innovative technologies, products and healthy communities PAULO GOMES Brussels, 7-8 March 2007

Regions for Economic Change : fostering competitiveness through innovative technologies, products and healthy communitiesWorkshop 1 A – fostering regional governance and public private partnership: 

Regions for Economic Change : fostering competitiveness through innovative technologies, products and healthy communities Workshop 1 A – fostering regional governance and public private partnership Territorial Cooperation Objective – a new strategic 'status' 'European renewal cannot come only through a top-down approach. If innovation is to become the true driver for growth and jobs we must engage and exploit the local and regional potential of Knowdlege and cooperation. Only by taking into account the potential of Europe’s 268 regions, its cities, its rural and metropolitan areas, we will be able to make the Union more competitive and to generate growth and sustainable jobs. In the period 2007-2013, territorial cooperation has reached the status of 'Objective' in contrast to its role as a 'Community Initiative' for the past 15 years. This is an important political signal, placing cooperation on the same level as the Convergence and Competitiveness Objectives.' Danuta Hubner Conference of German Ministers responsible for spatial planning February, 2007

Regions for Economic Change : fostering competitiveness through innovative technologies, products and healthy communitiesWorkshop 1 A – fostering regional governance and public private partnership: 

Regions for Economic Change : fostering competitiveness through innovative technologies, products and healthy communities Workshop 1 A – fostering regional governance and public private partnership Strategic Guidelines of Cohesion – to align cohesion policy with the Lisbon agenda for growth and jobs Making Europe a more attractive place to invest and work Improve Knowdlege and innovation for growth More and better jobs

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The National economies in The Enlarged Europe (GDP per capita, UE-15 = 100, CSF III – 2000-2006)

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The Regions in the Enlarged Europe (The National 'mix' of the Regional Development Levels )

Regions for Economic Change : fostering competitiveness through innovative technologies, products and healthy communitiesWorkshop 1 A – fostering regional governance and public private partnership: 

Regions for Economic Change : fostering competitiveness through innovative technologies, products and healthy communities Workshop 1 A – fostering regional governance and public private partnership The 2006 Innovation Index

Regions for Economic Change : fostering competitiveness through innovative technologies, products and healthy communitiesWorkshop 1 A – fostering regional governance and public private partnership: 

Regions for Economic Change : fostering competitiveness through innovative technologies, products and healthy communities Workshop 1 A – fostering regional governance and public private partnership SII and Trends

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Regions for Economic Change : fostering competitiveness through innovative technologies, products and healthy communitiesWorkshop 1 A – fostering regional governance and public private partnership: 

Regions for Economic Change : fostering competitiveness through innovative technologies, products and healthy communities Workshop 1 A – fostering regional governance and public private partnership Regional Development Performance (2002-2004) Human Resources in Science and Technology-Core (% of pop.) Participation in Life-long learning per 100 pop. Aged 25-64 Public Randamp;D expenditures (% GDP) Business Randamp;D expenditures (% GDP) Employment in medium-high and high-tech manufacturing (% of total workforce) Employment in high-tech services (% of total workforce) EPO patents per million population

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Four key factors for understanding regional Innovation potential Almost half of difference in GDP per capita in 215 EU 27 regions is explained by the four factors! Also explain variance in unemployment

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Strategic groups of innovative regions

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1) Global consolidation 2) Sustain competitive advantage

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3) Boosting entrepreneurial knowledge 4) Enterning knowledge economy

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Regional Innovation Systems (RIS) A RIS is constituted by two sub-systems and the systemic interaction between them (and with non-local actors and agencies). The knowledge generation and diffusing sub-system (universities, technical colleges, Randamp;D institutes, technology transfer agencies, business associations and finances institutions). The knowledge exploitation sub-system (firms in regional clusters as well as their support industries (customers and suppliers).

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What is a RIS – broad definiton: A system of organisations and institutions supporting learning and organisational innovation, and their interactions with local firms (learning regions). Adaptive learning: competence building – (learning) work organisation. Developmental learning: interactive learning (user-producer relationships) – inter-firm network. A market/demand/user driven system generating incremental innovations

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Regional knowledge infrastructure (Regional) universities as producers of highly skilled people (human capital/talents). Supplying highly skilled workforce, and thus providind absorptive capacity to local firms. Actors in the knowledge generation subsystem of RIS (industry-university collaboration) Providing access for tapping into their knowledge reservoir for local firms. Acting as tecnhology transfer agencies for non-local knowledge.

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Regional Policy Challenges The dilemma of regional innovation: from imitation to innovative adaptation. Industrial renewal takes place in-between and beyond existing sectors – need for transcending traditional sector policies (platform policy). Innovation through combining existing knowledge, technologies and competencies with new generic technologies (IT, biotech (green and white). How to shape conditions for cross-fertilization?

Regions for Economic Change : fostering competitiveness through innovative technologies, products and healthy communitiesWorkshop 1 A – fostering regional governance and public private partnership: 

Regions for Economic Change : fostering competitiveness through innovative technologies, products and healthy communities Workshop 1 A – fostering regional governance and public private partnership Major Keys Governance Clearer split of responsibilities amongst various political and administrative levels Exploiting EU level opportunities Focus on an innovation friendly environment Focus on applied research and product development Focus on Poles andamp; Clusters

Regions for Economic Change : fostering competitiveness through innovative technologies, products and healthy communitiesWorkshop 1 A – fostering regional governance and public private partnership: 

Major Keys Partnerships Focus on 'downstream' collaborative research developed with view to the market - technology transfer most effective through personal mobility schemes. Regions for Economic Change : fostering competitiveness through innovative technologies, products and healthy communities Workshop 1 A – fostering regional governance and public private partnership PPPartnerships Still quite unsuccessful but very important Must emerge from a demand culture