BOOSTING INNOVATION

THROUGH COOPERATION
EU and Italian financial tools

Michele Scataglini, APRI Consulting Ltd.

Szeged, September 25th 2008

Contents

• Structural Funds Objective 3 EU Territorial Cooperation

• Transnational cooperation: Interreg IVB South East Europe

• Transnational cooperation: Interreg IVB Central Europe

• Interregional cooperation: Interreg IVC

• Italian national tools

• Way ahead

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Structural Funds 2007-2013
Programming framework 2007-2013

• 3 objectives of Regional Policy

– Ob. 1 Convergence

– Ob. 2 Regional Competitiveness and Employment

– Ob. 3 European Territorial Cooperation

• From the “pilot initiative” Interreg of the previous periods,

to self-standing objective of Regional Policy

• Acknowledged role of cooperation across borders as a driver of

socio-economic development

• Cross-border, transnational, interregional cooperation

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Territorial Cooperation 2007-2013 and Innovation

• Objectives of Territorial Cooperation and ERDF intervention as

stated by Art. 6 EC Reg. 1080/2006 (among others):

• transnational cooperation in the field of innovation aimed at:

• creation and development of scientific and technological
networks
• enhancement of regional R&TD and innovation capacities
• establishment of networks between appropriate tertiary
education and research institutions and SMEs
• technology transfer between R&TD facilities and
international centres of RTD excellence
• twinning of technology transfer institutions
• development of joint financial engineering instruments
directed at supporting R&TD in SMEs;

• Interregional cooperation aimed at improving policies in the

fields of innovation and knowledge economy

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Territorial Cooperation Italy-Hungary

• No direct borders excluding access to cross-border cooperation

• Transnational cooperation allows cooperation among large groups

of regions without the constraint of common border areas. 13 EU
Programmes, 2 of which include Hungarian and Italian regions:

– Interreg IVB South-East Europea area

– Interreg IVB Central-Europe area

• Interregional cooperation allows cooperation among all EU

Regions without geographical constraints. Actors belong to the
public sphere:

– Interreg IVC

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Interreg IVB
South-East Europe Programme
Participating countries and regions

• N. 8 Member States: Austria,

Bulgaria, Romania, Greece,
Hungary, Italy, Slovakia,
Slovenia

• N. 7 Candidate and potential

candidate countries: Albania,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia,
FYROM, Serbia, Montenegro,
Turkey

• N. 2 third countries:
Moldova, Ukraine

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Innovation in South East Europe

• Priority Axis 1: Facilitation of innovation and Entrepreneurship

– AoI 1.1. Development of technology and innovation networks in

specific fields

– AoI 1.2. Development the enabling environment for innovative

entrepreneurship

– AoI 1.3. Enhancement of the framework conditions and paving

the way for innovation

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1.1. Technology and innovation networks
• Transnational partnerships around innovation centres and agencies in high-tech sectors

• Facilitating the formation or consolidation or restructuring of transnational

productive clusters

• Creating or reinforcing co-operation networks between companies and research,

technology and innovation facilities of different countries and promoting joint action
regarding applied research

• Creating transnational exchange-teams specialised in building up technology and

innovation capacity for improved products, processes and services

• Strategic co-operation aiming at enhancing the use of innovative and cleaner new
technologies and its application at local and regional level

• Establishing transnational networks between appropriate tertiary education and

research, technology and innovation facilities

• Establishing joint training courses in connecting with technology and innovation

networks

• Establishing science-and technology park networks developing standards and locational

requirements for successful “high tech campus”

• Increasing the internationalisation level of research, technology and innovation

facilities

• Facilitating the application of technological innovation in the programme area by

enhancing the mobility of researchers, supporting the exchange of knowledge

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1.2. Development of environment for innovative
entrepreneurship

• Networking of SME-support facilities to set up mechanisms for developing

approaches in supporting innovative entrepreneurship

• Pooling expertise in networks to help SMEs diagnose and solve legal,

organisational and human issues associated with innovation processes

• Co-operation activities for the support and promotion of female

entrepreneurship

• Exchanging of practice and experience among innovative SME (managed by SME-

support facility)

• Increasing the SMEs’ awareness of innovation and technology approaching

better roads to market

• Developing standards and locational requirements for successful “innovative

business parks”

• Developing regional business support structures within transnational

partnerships

• Co-operation in the field of innovation financing, making SMEs more

familiar with various financial engineering techniques, setting up of
transnational innovation trusts.

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1.3. Enhancement of the framework conditions and
paving the way for innovation

• Improving governance at regional and local level with respect to innovative

entrepreneurship

• Development of “innovation management”, “innovation support” and

“innovation governance” through analysis and monitoring of innovation
performance and the development and co-ordination of innovation policy

• Networking between regions sharing an interest in a specific economic

field/sector, aiming at strengthening the economic profile of respective
regions

• Promoting the image formation of South East Europe as a place of innovation

and growth by ICT

• Using ICT-tools to encourage young people to develop entrepreneurial spirit

and wake enthusiasm for scientific education

• Taking the chance to explain and experiment the potential of Environmental

Technologies Innovation

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Implementation principles

• Eligible beneficiaries
– Public bodies
– Bodies governed by public law
– Bodies governed by private law with non-commercial
character

• Periodic calls for proposal

– http://www.southeast-europe.net – Early 2009

• Implementing bodies
– JTS: Vati Public Benefit Company, Budapest
– Managing Authority: National Development Agency, Budapest

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Interreg IVB
Central Europe Programme
Participating countries and regions

Central Europe Programme IV B

• N. 9 Countries involved

• N. 8 Member States: Czech

Republic, parts of Germany,
parts of Italy, Hungary,
Austria, Poland, Slovenia
and Slovak Republic

• N. 1 partner state: Ukraine

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Innovation in Central Europe

• Priority 1: Facilitating Innovation across Central Europe

– 1.1 Enhancing framework conditions for innovation

– 1.2 Establishing capabilities for the diffusion and

application of innovation

– 1.3 Fostering knowledge development

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1.1 Enhancing framework conditions for innovation

• Setting up exchange and coordination mechanisms for innovation approaches

and policies across Central Europe between key players of the innovation
system (regional development agencies, chambers of commerce, universities,
research institutions, small and medium sized enterprises etc.), e.g.
through foresight initiatives

• Supporting the establishment and development of transnational clusters in

key competence areas

• Setting up links between public authorities and financing institutions to

develop capacity in financial engineering (funding schemes, venture capital
etc.) for innovation across the cooperation space

• Implementing transnational cooperation between public and private

(regional) players in innovation

• Creating and strengthening institutions for technology transfer with a

specific view to transnational transfer approaches and intellectual
property right practices

• Fostering policies to support easy access to and link between R&TD

facilities

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1.2 Establishing Capabilities for the Diffusion and
Application of Innovation

• Stimulating technology transfer and knowledge exchange mechanisms

• Putting the cooperation of technology transfer institutions and the

production sector into practice

• Fostering access to scientific knowledge and the use of already existing

knowledge

• Establishing transnational networks between appropriate tertiary education

and research institutions

• Encouraging the use of ICT to create better transregional and transnational

communication and cooperation between innovation systems

• Setting up and intensifying the application-oriented cooperation between

research system and companies

• Creating preconditions for making access to high-level technologies easier

on transnational level

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1.3 Fostering Knowledge Development

• Creating new and improved existing transnational educational and training

networks in higher education (e.g. linking academic and business
qualifications)

• Implementing joint strategies and action plans for strengthening human

resources and knowledge development

• Putting joint strategies for managing demographic change, migration and

brain-drain into action

• Establishing transnational cooperation between training facilities and

labour market organisations

• Promoting actions on the diffusion of technological and innovation results

as well as on the importance of regional innovation systems

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Implementation highlights

• Eligible beneficiaries
– Public bodies
– Bodies governed by public law
– Bodies governed by private law with non-commercial
character

• Periodic calls for proposal

– http://www.central2013.eu – Early 2009

• Implementing bodies
– JTS: based in Vienna
– Managing Authority: City of Vienna

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Interreg IVC
Interregional Cooperation
Participating countries and regions

Interregional cooperation IV C

• EU27, Norway and Switzerland.

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Innovation and knowledge economy

• Supporting activities and actors involved in research and

development

• Supporting research and innovation infrastructure such as

science parks, innovation centres, incubators or support to
clusters

• Strengthening creative interaction in the knowledge -

businesses - public sector triangle

• Improving the capacity of regions for research and innovation

• Promoting entrepreneurship and business start-up, especially in

knowledge-based, innovation driven sectors.

• Increasing investment in R&D related human capital

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Implementation highlights

• Eligible beneficiaries
– Public bodies (preferably regional level)
– Bodies governed by public law (preferably regional level)

• Periodic calls for proposal

– http://www.interreg4c.net – Deadline 30th January 2009

• Implementing bodies
– JTS: Lille
– Managing Authority: Nord-Pas de Calais Region

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Italian financing tools
Italian Ministry for Economic Development

• Framework agreement between Ministry of Economic development

and Italian Institute for Foreign Commerce (ICE)

• Enhance economic competitiveness and internationalization of

the Italian SMEs through cooperation between tertiary
education/research institutions and companies

• Partnership model
– Italian University as beneficiary
– Italian private company as co-financer
– Foreign University as local partner

• Maximum size: euro 250.000

• Maximum duration: 18 months

• Deadline: October 10th 2008

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The growth strategy

Private
sector
IT
Competitive
ness on
global
market
COMPETITIVENESS
AND GROWTH

Cooperation
with R&D
Foreign
Investment IT

HU

Cooperation
R&D
IT - HU

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Generating projects
Cross-cutting issues among programmes

Transnational networking Framework conditions Policy development

Cooperation between Improving access to Improving governance of

companies and research finance innovation

Support services for

Cooperation among Strengthening innovation
innovative
research institutions profile of regions
entrepreneurship

Development of joint Development of high-tech

Spreading use of ICT
trainings and curricula campuses

Increasing investment in
Stimulation of Support start up of
R&D related human
technology transfer innovative businesses
capital

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What to do now?

• Assess the innovation needs of your region

• Share them with foreign counterparts

• Identify common needs and solutions

• Match the need with one of the Programmes

• Schedule the application for a Grant

• Implement your project

• Evaluate the results

• Create synergies with your national Structural Funds

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Some concrete examples

• http://www.agrobiotechxchange.eu/project.php

• http://www.elisa-project.net/

• http://npd-net.urenio.org/

• Programme websites 2000-2007

• www.cadses.net

• http://www.interreg3c.net

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Michele Scataglini

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