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Regional Program of Innovative Actions
Madeira RPIA Madeira
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Regional Program of Innovative Actions - Madeira
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Before Regional Program of Innovative Actions -
Madeira
The Region in 2001

• Weakness in what concerned the level of
  cooperation between the regional actors
• Disarticulation of the shared strategies by the
  actors of Research and Technological Development
  Innovation (RTD-I
• In some cases inexistence of a strategy
• Lack of sensibility of the regional authorities
  in the matters of RTD I
• Excessive centralisation of RTD-I measures and
  weak integration of public/private entities
• Regional development centred in the social and
  economic infra-structures

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Departure point Regional Program of Innovative
Actions - Madeira
Intervention Themes

• Regional Economy based in Knowledge and
  Technologic Innovation
• Regional Identity and Sustainable Development

• Articulation of the Offer in RTD with the Demand
  having, as final goal, the increase of the
  territorial competitiveness
• Valorisation of the endogenous potential of the
  artisan production, of its natural and ecological
  potential and of its cultural patrimony

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During Regional Program of Innovative Actions -
Madeira

• Main actions
• Development of a Regional Sustainable Development
  Strategy
• Development of a Regional Innovation Strategy
• Development of a Strategic Actions Plan
• Set up of Projects Ideas
• Development of a Territorial Management Model

With the cooperation of more than 70 regional
entities
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Results of Regional Program of Innovative Actions
- Madeira

• It can be pointed out as main results of the
  Program
• Involvement of more than 100 entities, decision
  makers, from the various activity sectors
• Approach to Innovation made in a more enlarged
  point of view Sustainable Development
• High consensus level between the Strategies
  definition
• Some high level political positions were
  effectively changed in order to follow these new
  orientations
• Public and private sector assumed a compromise
  with these orientations
• Set up of the innovative projects ideas with the
  cooperation if the EU Funds (ERDF)
• Creation of a new regional dynamic around
  Innovation

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Results of Regional Program of Innovative Actions
- Madeira
Regional Sustainable Development Strategy 1st
Strategic Option To place the Regional
Patrimonial of Knowledge and Competences in the
centre of the Sustainable Development
Strategy 2nd Strategic Option To focus in
Tourism, Food chain, Natural, Cultural and
Traditional Resources, in an integrated
perspective as strategic sectors of the
Sustainable Development 3rd Strategic Option
To establish, as a strategic priority the
Reinforcement of the Competitive Capacity of the
Region, electing as determining factor of the
process, the Innovation
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Results of Regional Program of Innovative Actions
- Madeira
Regional Sustainable Development Strategy 4th
Strategic Option To structure the involving of
the productive sectors to facilitate and support
the reinforcement of the Region's Competitive
Capacity and stimulate the cultural changes that
may constitute critical success factors 5th
Strategic Option To internationalize the Region
as an option associated to the reinforcement of
its competitive capacity 6th Strategic Option
To elect and affirm the rural areas as a
territorial strategic basis for the Sustainable
Development 7th Strategic Option To define a
Territorial Management Model oriented for the
Sustainable Development and adaptation of the
Region's institutional framework to the
conditions brought by the new Model.
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Results of Regional Program of Innovative Actions
- Madeira
Regional Innovation Strategy 1st Strategic
Option To invest in the requalification of the
human resources through the convergence of the
educational actions and professional training as
well as the adoption of new ways of certifying
the knowledge and the competencies 2nd Strategic
Option To establish, as first priority, the
creation of a Regional System of Quality, as an
inducing factor for innovation, capable of
placing the Region in the 2nd generation of
Innovative Actions 3rd Strategic Option To
develop structured actions of modernisation and
innovation of the public administration and to
disseminate and push these to the private
organisations, in order to leverage the Quality
and Innovation Politics in the Region 4th
Strategic Option To promote entrepreneurship as
a key competence of Innovation and assume its
systematic qualification as a compromise in the
long term to foster change
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Results of Regional Program of Innovative Actions
- Madeira
Regional Innovation Strategy 5th Strategic
Option To structure, develop and articulate the
scientific and technological research and the
transfer of know-how in an integrated system of
research and technological development to
leverage in the medium/long term the 3rd
generation of innovative actions 6th Strategic
Option To create instruments and mechanisms
that facilitate and motivate the practices of
cooperation, promoting the creation of
partnerships and networks that evolve in the
sense of a Regional System of Cooperation
changing the communicational and inter-relational
culture in the Region 7th Strategic Option To
elect Information and Communication Technologies
(ICT) as a catalyser instrument of Knowledge and
Competencies and a motivating instrument for the
actions to be implemented in the scope of the
INOVATION Policy of the Autonomous Region of
Madeira
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Results of Regional Program of Innovative Actions
- Madeira
Regional Innovation Strategy 8th Strategic
Option To create complementary or alternative
financial instruments and mechanisms to the ones
provided by the commercial banks to micro and
small enterprises as a way to optimize financial
engineering to the needs of the various
innovative projects and promoters 9th Strategic
Option To define a strategy and implement a
regional campaign of awareness for Innovation in
the context of the dissemination of the new
values associated to competitiveness and
mobilisation of the society for the creation of
the Innovation and Good Practices Culture.
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Results Regional Program of Innovative Actions -
Madeira Projects
Incremental Innovation and in some cases even
Disruptive Innovation Demystification of the
Innovation concept that was too centred in the
great technological innovations
Fish this project intends to cultivate, in
captivity, some species of high commercial value,
to posterior release in the natural sea
environment where they will be able to grow,
reproduce and then, be captured for consumption.
This repopulation can open a door in the tourist
market of sport and underwater fishing besides
permitting an increase of the captures in the
traditional fishing. Introduction of 4 electric
buses in the historical centre acquisition of 4
electric buses destined to make a circuit in the
historical centre providing a transversal
mobility of high frequency and study the impact
in the environment.
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Results Regional Program of Innovative Actions -
Madeira Projects
EEM Powerline this project consists in the
implementation of the Powerline technology in the
electric network of the Electricity Company of
Madeira, with the intention of making it
available (data/voice) for all the users of the
network. Forest Risk Prevention Centre
Creation of a centre with the purpose
of Implementing a forest tele-vigilance
system Prevision of the behaviour of the forest
fires Control actions and coordination to the
fire fighting Study of the evolution of the
regional forest plagues and diseases Installation
of control towers through out the Region.
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Results Regional Program of Innovative Actions -
Madeira Projects
The Program has supported the elaboration and set
up of 26 pilot projects ideas
With the involvement of more than 100 entities
working in partnership
With an estimated investment by ERDF of more than
30 000 000
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Results of Regional Program of Innovative Actions
- Madeira

• Territorial Management Model
• The Territorial Management Model developed for
  the Autonomous Region of Madeira had as main goal
  the accomplishment of the Regional Sustainable
  Development and Innovation Strategies elaborated
  in the framework of RPIA Madeira.
• Some specific actions were taken
• Definition of planning of macro processes
  according to the quality systems
• Use of New Information and Communication
  Technologies
• Permanent monitoring, control and evaluation of
  projects and programs
• Criteria and methods of project selection are
  articulated with the strategies
• Transparency and segregation of functions

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After Regional Program of Innovative Actions -
Madeira
After the execution of RPIA-Madeira
Was demonstrated that Innovation it is not
exclusive of the major Research Centres Was
given a regional dynamic around Innovation in its
enlarged sense Innovation was put in the
perspective of a coherent and shared Sustainable
Development Strategy Major financing sources
were articulated with the intention of giving
some critical mass to the projects and to the
Innovation dynamic.
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