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CENTRE Region - FranceTowards a RIS3 strategy
Brussels, September, 27th, 2012
Jonathan Nussbaumer(State Administration)
Alban Marché(Regional Government)
Nathalie Boulanger(Regional Innovation Agency)
Also known as“Region of the
Loire valley Castles”
Outline
Regional profile Centre region innovation policy :
overview From RIS to RIS3 Key challenges RIS3 Process Governance Identification of priorities Implementation Measuring the progress Conclusion and next steps
Regional profile
2.53 million of inhabitants, with a low density A population growing slightly, and ageing GDP : €65.2 billion, with a growth rate of +0.4% Economy driven by agriculture and industry▫ 1st French and European region for cereal▫ 2nd for cosmetics/pharmaceutical and rubber’s production; ▫ 3rd for graphic arts, computer & electronics, and
mechanical industry; ▫ plus automotive industry, weapons & defense equipment;
RIS ranking: 85th European region (8th out of 26 French regions)
4th French rank in R&D private expenditure; 56 000 students
Our region works on RIS Since mid-2009 (and after a 2-year process), our Regional
Innovation Strategy is implemented along axes ….. promoting innovation by encouraging entrepreneurship; developing partnerships in innovation; reinforcing the human capital and the qualification of the
workforce. ▫ … and two main cross-sectoral ambitions:
Power-efficiency Innovation through service
▫ Implementation plan : 11 measures
Energy efficiency
Innovation through services
Our Region works on RIS Since the beginning of the process, regional governance
structure includes public stakeholders, universities, companies and civic society in order to “promote growth and jobs through our assets, especially in power efficiency and innovation by service systems”.
Introduction
Regional Innovation Strategy organization
Regional Steering Committee for
Innovation
Co-leadership by President of Regional government and by the
head of local state autority
Constituted by the main innovation actors of the
territory : University, Economic and Industrial Chamber of Commerce and Industry,
Clusters (Pole de compétivité, Research Institution)
State of the art of innovation
In relation to other innovation strategies (PO
FEDER, CPER, SRDES)
acted in consultation with socio-economic actors & institutions (annual regional conference of
Innovation)
Operational Committee for
InnovationDRRTDIRECCTE
Regional CouncilOseo CCIR
ARITT cretary)
From RIS to RIS3
The goal is to evolve our SRI to SRI- SI (RIS3) . So we need process RIS3 from work already done:
▫ 1 capitalize on the three axes which structure the regional ecosystem of innovation (innovation in business, collaborative innovation, strengthening of human capital)
▫ 2. Identify what could be potential areas of specialisation in two cross-cutting themes which had been approached (energy efficiency and innovation by related services)
▫ 3. Detect beyond these two thematic areas that were also an economic and social impact
▫ 4. Continue to structure the innovation ecosystem
Key challenges issues
Diversified economy without strong leadership ... so no specialisation in high tech fields
Cooperation between public research centers and companies is still insufficent and weak
Many subcontractors in regional industry essentially in med-tech or low-tech
Maybe too many clusters...
RIS3 Process Main steps of the RIS3
design and implementation▫ Understand the needs of
economics players and respond to the EC requirements
▫ Analyse the regional assets in the international context
▫ Identify priorities by entrepreneurship discovery process and with consultation the players involved in innovation
▫ Elaborate and implement the RIS3 strategy
▫ Monitor and assess this strategy
Priorities : our roadmap
Priorities
RIS3 priorities are going to be based on workshop results (20 entrepreneurs selected in each workshop). Regional Innovation Conference audience is fully involved.
The Steering Committee will validate ultimate choices because it is public policy.
Choice criteria : “4C”, focus on impacts on the region, and ecosystem acceptance.
A third workshop is organized to investigate other potential specialisation area(s).
Measured in the international
context
Governance
State administration and regional government are really working together supported by the regional innovation Agency who is their common “child”.
A real consensus on innovation as a key issue of economic development in Centre Region has been built for 5 years.
The national and regional governments are aware that they will have to make choices and sometimes hard choices.
Even if specialisation areas are going to be suggested by the business community, the final choice is theirs.
Decisions will be based on potential results for the region to provide growth and job... But this process may still need some flexibility. This will depend on innovation ecosystem professionalisation (which was the main aim of our first RIS).
Entrepreneurial dynamics The business community is totally involved in RIS3
process, from the start and with constant dialogue. It is at the heart of the workshop debates, for it is
knowledgeable. But organizations like clusters are very apprehensive. Most of the research and academic institutions face a
dilemma: how can one be a part of the strategy being answerable to results ?
Flexibility mechanisms lie in the ecosystem support and the on-going assessment in order to reallocate funds.
Implementation and Budget Concrete action plans and roadmaps had been designed
for our first RIS with a limited number of actions (11) – We will follow the same process
▫ for each selected potential specialisation area and▫ for efficiency of non-financial support services to carry on the
structuration of the innovation ecosystem Strong coordination between ERDF, CPER (State &
regional Government Plan Agreement) to allow budgets for 2014-2020. Policy Mix fully integrated and reinforced by the close governance.
Our RIS3 is supposed to stimulate private R&D+I investments, first (note that private RDI is an asset to the region Centre).
Measuring the progress RIA is in charge of following the indicators of the action
plans.
Our dashboard will include outcome indicators : number of companies involved ; business impact ; jobs created,...
Evaluation each year to adapt the RIS3 – validation by Regional Innovation Strategy Committee and Regional Innovation Conference.
Conclusion and next steps We are going to finalise the process (mid-November) to
identify the potential specialisation areas among our cross-sectoral activities.
RIS3 challenges : ▫ academic research lobbying ▫ adhesion of the regional organizations which are not
involved in the new RIS3 priorities We need a real support to identify and settle cooperation
beyond our frontiers. Total awareness due to long term process to explain how
S3 is essential.