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Regions and innovation:From research to marketRIS INNPULSE WorkshopsApril 10-12 2006, VilniusAndrea Di Anselmo
Key issues
Innovation is different from research
Subsidiarity matters (EU – Nations – Regions – … - Municipalities)
Regional intervention as Market enabler and catalyzer
Structural funding is a key ingredient
Regions are the main enablers for facing the innovation challengeWhy:
Understanding of the needs of players
Capability to create consensus
Potentiality in integrating all the social and economic actors
Proximity to the end users
Not only the relationships between Research and Not only the relationships between Research and innovation but support targeting at a wider and innovation but support targeting at a wider and more effective population of innovative SMEsmore effective population of innovative SMEs
Technological v/s entrepreneurial innovation Existing companies v/s start-ups Polarize v/s differentiate Market pull v/s technology push
Challenges
Strategic options
Focus on excellence and avoid fragmentation
Invest in human capital (“brains” attraction and retention)
Remove obstacles, ensure mobility (ideas, people, goods, capitals)
Invest in entrepreneurial culture and entrepreneurship
Boost internationalization (partnerships, markets, …..)
LeveragesCooperation among SMEs, SMEs and
Knowledge producers, Channel all investment in SMEs towards
innovation Access to high-profiled services Support to knowledge based start ups Integration of dedicated financing tools
(debt, risk capital, guarantees, grants)State of the art infrastructures
RIS INNPULSE WorkshopsApril 10-12 2006, VilniusAndrea Di Anselmo
The Strategic Plan for Innovation in Sicily
Sri SICILY
“Scientific research” over “innovation”
Boundary line between research and market
Relevant presence of public research vs a weak entrepreneurial system
Sicily, the region
Population: 5.054 million inhabitantsArea: 301.316 sq.kmsIndustry: 18.9% of the workforceServices: 68.6%Agriculture: 12.5%
The Strategy Objectives tree
Development of the interface system
Scouting pilot project
Incubators empowerment
Awareness and training on entrepreneurship
Testing and prototyping laboratories
Creation and strengthening of TTOs in universities
Creation of an IPR fund
Seed capital funds
Connect research with the market
Incentive patenting and know-how commercialization
Improve the activities for innovation diffusion throughout the whole Sicilian territory
Qualify the supply of technological services aimed at matching market needs and inward investment initiatives
Sensitive researchers and students on spin outs as mean for research results valorisation
Qualify location factors addressed to SMEs based on technologies
Increase the rate of NTBFs creation through the access to risk capital
To initiate the process of commercial exploitation of scientific results gained by Sicilian researchers and stimulate the interest of external operators
Improve the regional innovation interface system
Support the creation of knowledge intensive firms
Promote the exploitation of research realized in Sicily
Improve innovation capacity and absorption of the existent Sicilian economic system
Set the conditions for the growth of the productivity and the
entrepreneurial development in SICILY
ACTIONS OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVES MID=TERM OBJECTIVES
FINAL OBJECTIVES
SMEs research, innovation and TT cooperative projects
Stages and training of graduated students/researchers into SMEs willing to introduce an innovation
Creation and management of knowledge circles
Promotion of ETI and stimulation of collaboration among SMEs
Promotion of research, TT and innovation within Sicilian SMEs and support of territorial!sectoral networking and clustering processes
Promotion of SMEs’ technological, organizational, managerial innovation and matching of market needs, via the insertion of
Diffuse innovation among existing SMEs
1,63%
57,66%
2,18%
4,08%
15,98%
0,82%
2,72%
5,44%
1,91%
3,21%
4,36%
61,48%
20,06%
8,98%
9,48%
81,54%
18,46%
Rejuvenate and diversify theeconomy of Sicily through knowledge valorization processes (start ups creation and licensing)
RIS INNPULSE WorkshopsApril 10-12 2006, VilniusAndrea Di Anselmo
Putting Strategy into Practice
SLORITTS
Slovenia, the region
As far as innovation is concerned, initiatives are project based, there are no long term actions focusing on strategic key issues.
Strong importance is given to information (newsletters, seminar etc.), very little is done in terms of awareness raising (including entrepreneurship and R&D results valorisation).
Universities and Research centres are not used to have commercial relationships with the business sector, focus on research and education (innovation = bridging research to the market).
Population: 2 million inhabitantsArea: 20.273 sq.kmsNational GDP: Services 61.5 %, Industry 30%, Construction 5.5%, Agriculture 3%Main cities: Ljubljana, Maribor and Celje Main industry: automotive, tool, transport and wood
Innovation System Action Plan
To promote a national innovation culture, increase the innovation capacity of Slovenia and contribute to a more equal development of all regions.
Leverages
Legislation
Innovation support system
Research-industry collaboration
Innovation financing
Human Resource management
Innovation awareness
Main intervention programmes
Technology umbrella: Focuses on the development of business zones and the modernisation of the innovation environment.
Tourism umbrella: Aims to involve as many Slovenian tourism actors as possible and development of new, integrated tourism products and integrated information systems
Health care umbrella: Aims at improving the standard of national healthcare and at offering specialist services that can be marketed abroad
Some key issues
End UsersFocus up on existing SMEs and start-ups specialising two distinct set of actions, measures and networks, (an eventual third on Knowledge valorisation - IPR, patenting and licensing)
IntegrateStrengthening and integration of the regional infrastructure for innovation (finance, incubation, grants).
Human ResourcesFocus on HR as leverage to introduce innovation and create links to bridge Knowledge Basins to SMEs.
Make it visible
Rationalization of the network to support innovation in Slovenia
(downsizing)
Incubation and acceleration: Knowledge based start-upsRIS INNPULSE WorkshopsApril 10-12 2006, VilniusAndrea Di Anselmo
Start-ups: Why and How
Why– Unemployment– Renew economic fabric– Keep brains– Market Knowledge basins– Fashionable …………………..
How– Entrepreneurship v/s employment– Exogenous v/s endogenous– Incubation v/s acceleration– Fees v/s equity Make or Buy
Knowledge based start-ups: IDENTITY & VISIBILITY
Knowledge based business are strategic for competitiveness
Long term action - “Bull eye” on it
Success to showcase
Regional infrastructure: from Incubators to Parks
•Idea Incubator (pre-incubation)
•Business Incubator
•Accademic Incubator•Accelerator•Multi Tenant Building•Technology Park•Business Park
Flexible housing for starting entrepreneurs
Market prices are eventually a must
More than only housing
No pre-set solution, need to find the right balance according to regional needs
Incubation & Acceleration: the concept
Acceleration
Self starting
Incubation
