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INVESTING IN OUR SHARED FUTURETHE 8TH CONFERENCE ON THE EVALUATION OF EU COHESION POLICY
DATA SOURCESOP information systems data, a survey addressed to operations promoters, and case studies.
MAIN FINDINGS• Rival theories for explaining the results
achieved by RIS 3 implementation were considered. Innovation policies have achieved a high level of persistence and maturity in previous programming periods.
• RIS3 approach arrived in the right moment allowing to focusing RIS3 priorities and to increase a moderate selectiveness in a context of high level of maturity of innovation policies.
• Flexible governance models implemented in each NUTS II region contribute for the minimization of increasing returns risks (trend to benefit regions presenting more robust regional innovation systems and more diversified specialization profiles since that model). It was also partially successful in increasing the institutional quality of regions with less robust RIS3
and in creating conditions to increase the technological effort of those regions (R&D expenditures/GDP).
• With a very high contribution of ESIF to national and regional RIS3 implementation, the anticipated effects on Smart Growth goals are: creation of more favourable conditions to increase technological effort (less robust RIS3); intensification of technological efforts (robust RIS3); intensification of collaborative practices (research centres, interfaces and SME’s).
• The structural change of specialization profiles could be achieved through the persistence and sustainability of the most promising practices enhanced by RIS3 and enlarging the mass of SMEs involved, in a context of external demand-pull.
• The principles of upgrading related to variety should be more present in projects selection criteria and more effective links between RIS 3 development and support to technologically-based entrepreneurship will be welcome.
MAIN OBJECTIVE To evaluate: the implementation of National and Regional Smart Specialisation Strategies in Portugal; pertinence of administrative procedures; role of management practices; appropriateness of RIS3 governance models; effects on entrepreneurial discovery processes; expected contribution of ESIF; expected contribution to Smart Growth goals.
METHODOLOGY USEDTheory of Change and contribution analysis.
FUND(S) COVERED• European Regional Development
Fund (ERDF)• European Social Fund (ESF)• European Agricultural Fund for Rural
Development (EAFRD)• European Maritime and Fisheries
Fund (EMFF)
PROGRAMMING PERIOD• 2014-2020
PROGRAMME(S) COVERED• National OPs: Competitiveness and
Internationalisation, Human Capital • Regional OPs: Norte, Centro, Alentejo,
Lisboa, Algarve, Madeira and Açores • OP EMFF, EARDF • Continental Rural Development
Programme (RDP), Açores RDP, Madeira RDP
THEMATIC OBJECTIVE(S)• T001: Research and innovation• T003: Competitiveness of SMEs• T008: Employment and labour mobility• T010: Education, training and
vocational training
TYPE OF EVALUATION• Process
YEAR OF COMPLETION• Ongoing
AUTHOR(S) OF THE EVALUATION CONTACT PERSON Quaternaire Portugal, SA Carla Leal
Implementation of the National and Regional Research Strategies for Smart Specialization
Evaluation (RIS3) •
Cohesion and Development Agency
Continuity and maturation of R & D,
innovation and internationalization
policies; clusters and EEC
National and regional
strategies
ActivitiesOn Going Structural Change
To define:
Outputs 1st level outcomes 2st level outcomes/Impacts Major transformation goals
National and Regional S3 put in place
and articulated
Intensi�ed knowledge production and I&D in S3 priority areas
of national productive
specialization and its knowledge
intensity
Smart Growth and
Specialization
Progression in the
value chain
Better systemic collaborative
indices
processes of translation
and valorization of knowledge
consolidation and maturing of the
Portuguese RIS and their systemic
interaction
territorial basis for economic
competitiveness
corporate absorption of quali�ed human
resources
Sustained dynamics of interaction: producers
of knowledge and technology, and advanced users
Collective e�ciency strategies at sectoral and territorial levels
Intermediate and highly quali�ed human
resources training articulated with
business innovation.
Operational coordination
and monitoring mechanisms
Instruments (operation typologies,
criteria, calls…) articulated with S3
and promoting adequate policy mix
Active EDP (Entrepreneurial
Discovery Processes)
Demand in accordance with expected
Institutional and functional conditions
for adequate governance
Policy mix
Instruments
Coordination and government
arrangements
Deepening and widening in the
productive structure
Increase extroversion ratio,
tradables and e�ects of
international competition