Our experience in RIS

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Our experience in RIS Best practices and transfer
of know-how
RIS MAZOVIA November 24th, 2005 Frédérique
Pannier José A. Álvarez
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Our experience
Meta Group has been involved in RIS projects from
90s. We have selected the following set of
useful examples as best practices

• RIS UMBRIA (Italy)

• SLORITTS (Slovenia)

• RIS SICILY (Italy)

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The approach

• RIS as a dynamic process of reflection and
  exchange
• RIS as a process of continuous and increasing
  involvement of local, regional and international
  players
• A key action to integrate regional actors and
  build consensus
• RIS is not a standard process
• Other RIS experiences are useful to
• Better understand the whole process
• Have a long term visualization of possible
  difficulties
• Share successful actions

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RIS UMBRIA
Population 825.000 inhabitants Area 8.500
sq.kms Main cities Perugia, Terni Main sectors
Tourism, food products, textiles, clothing,
graphics and publishing industry, iron and
steel,machinery, chemicals, wood.

• A scattered and very traditional SMEs system
• An important public intervention to promote and
  support regional infrastructures for innovation.
• A change in the public supply of services was
  seen as needed

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RIS UMBRIA main performances
Succesful selection of involved key actors

• The current financing organisation GEPAFIN
• A regional agency for innovation called Science
  Park of Umbria
• A regional economic development agency
  Sviluppumbria.

Rationalising the system only three
organisations for a more effective industrial
policy
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RIS UMBRIA main performances
FIRST, the Umbria seed fund, was launched

• FIRST aims the main regional actors at
  supporting companies in their start up phase and
  innovative business ideas.
• FIRST initial size 3.716.667,00
• The fund was created with European structural
  funds
• Nowadays, FIRST is going through the evaluation
  phase of ventures with potential to invest on

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RIS UMBRIA the methodology
Seven working groups were organised in order to
better integrate all regional actors reactions.
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• Three connected to the problematic of innovation
  (awareness, technology transfer, services and
  interregional strategy)
• Two to the poles of excellence (inward
  investment and new business creation)
• Two on transversal issues (training and
  financing)

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RIS UMBRIA the result strategy

• Creation, development, attraction the three
  streams of technology based development and its
  percentages regarding resources.
• Support to innovation________50
• New technology based firms__30
• Inward investment__________20

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SLORITTS the region of Slovenia
Population 2 million inhabitants Area 20.273
sq.kms National GDP Services 61.5 , Industry
30, Construction 5.5, Agriculture 3 Main
cities Ljubljana, Maribor and Celje Main
industry automotive, tool, transport and wood

• 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 RD 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).

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SLORITTS overall objectives

• To increase the innovation capacity of Slovenia
  as an EU region with all of its statistical
  regions equally developed.

Operational goals

• To integrate and connect regional initiatives
• To achieve a nuclear reaction by means of
  reaching a level above the critical mass
• To increase the innovation capacity of the
  economy
• To start up the engine which would propel and
  draw together all key players in Slovenia
• To enhance the current legislation in order to
  better achieve support for innovations
• To encourage the joining of small and
  medium-sized enterprises into clusters in the
  area of conventional products and services as
  well as high technologies
• To initiate a business/technological cooperation
  between the regions in Slovenia
• To establish a key range of services for
  providing innovation support for small and
  medium-sized enterprises

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SLORITTS the umbrella concept

• Its innovative approach on strategic formulation
  becomes SLORITTS in a useful model of RIS.
• Innovation is not only technology, but mainly
  economic development.
• The three umbrellas

TECHNOLOGY
TOURISM
HEALTH
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SLORITTS the umbrella concept

• 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

Each of these umbrellas cluster local
stakeholders around a set of measures ranging
from service provision, to infrastructures, to
human capital development, which will be turned
into action using Structural funds resources
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RIS SICILY the region
Population 5.054 million inhabitants Area
301.316 sq.kms Industry 18.9 of the
workforce Services 68.6 Agriculture 12.5

• Scientific research over innovation
• Boundary line between research and market
• Relevant presence of public research vs a weak
  entrepreneurial system

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RIS SICILY main objectives

• Establishes the guidelines for a proper
  environment for innovation.
• Determine a territorial system based on
  knowledge and able to better take advantage
  of material and immaterial resources present in
  the region.

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RIS SICILY objective-tree overview
From main objectives to actions

• Knowledge valorisation process
• Stimulating existing SMEs
• Improving Innovation interface
• Absorption capacity of the existent regional
  system
• Supporting the creation of knowledge based
  ventures
• Exploiting research results
• Tools awareness raising campaigns, incubator
  empowerment, scouting pilot projects,
  facilitation the access to risk capital market,
  connection market-research, creation of seed
  capital fund and IPR fund.

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ACTIONS
OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVES

MIDTERM OBJECTIVES


FINAL OBJECTIVES







1,63
Creation and management of knowledge circles
Promotion of ETI and stimulation of collaboration
among SMEs
61,48


Promotion of research, TT and innovation within
Sicilian SMEs and support of territorial!sectoral
networking and clustering processes
57,66
SMEs research, innovation and TT
Diffuse innovation among existing SMEs
cooperative projects



2,18
Stages and training of graduated
students/researchers into SMEs willing to
introduce an innovation
81,54
Promotion of SMEs technological, organizational,
managerial innovation and matching of market
needs, via the insertion of


Improve innovation capacity
and absorption of the existent
Sicilian economic system
4,08
20,06
Improve the activities for innovation diffusion
throughout the whole Sicilian territory
Development of the interface system


Improve the regional innovation interface system
15,98
Testing and prototyping laboratories
Qualify the supply of technological services
aimed at matching market needs and inward
investment initiatives
0,82
Awareness and training on entrepreneurship
Sensitive researchers and students on spin outs
as mean for research results valorisation




8,98



2,72
Incubators empowerment
Qualify location factors addressed to SMEs based
on technologies
Support the creation of knowledge intensive firms



18,46
5,44
Increase the rate of NTBFs creation through the
access to risk capital
Seed capital funds
Rejuvenate and diversify the


economy of Sicily through
knowledge valorization
processes (start ups creation
To initiate the process of commercial
exploitation of scientific results gained by
Sicilian researchers and stimulate the interest
of external operators
1,91
Scouting pilot project
and licensing)

9,48
3,21
Creation and strengthening of TTOs in
universities
Promote the exploitation of research realized in
Sicily
Connect research with the market
4,36
Creation of an IPR fund
Incentive patenting and know-how
commercialization
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Lessons learnt about RIS

• It is not a study but an action
• Its necessary to involve decision makers and
• Promoting their participation since the very
  beginning of the exercise
• Use local organisations/firms to maintain and
  develop contacts

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Lessons learnt about RIS

• Involve SMEs and their associations and use
  working group
• Look for discussion and debate

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It is not difficult to learn new things, but to
quit old habits
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