1st PRO INNO Europe Partnering Event

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• 1st PRO INNO Europe Partnering Event
• Towards a more efficient support of innovation in
  Europe
• Understanding existing innovation support
  mechanisms and emerging trends

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Mapping of innovation support measures
Eurico Neves
David Robson
Paul Cunningham
Tomazs Ostrowski
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Mini-study N.º 1

• The general objective

To better understand the scope and financial
implications of existing support mechanisms in
favour of innovation in Europe

• Targets

How to define measures in support of innovation?
What are the main features of innovation
programmes and how have they changed in recent
years? How much is spent in support of innovation
in the EU?

• Tools

This analysis shall build upon the available
results and a further small scale to
correspondents - from the INNO-Policy Trendchart
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Topics

• Towards a definition of innovation support
  measures

• Major features of innovation support

• Emerging trends in support of innovation

• Expenditure on innovation support

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Towards a definition of innovation support
measures

• What is innovation policy?

• A set of policy actions to raise the quantity and
  efficiency of innovation activities whereby
  innovation activities refer to the creation,
  adaptation and adoption of new or improved
  products, processes or services1

• 1 Systematic study 2008

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Towards a definition of innovation support
measures

• Innovation support measures as instruments of
  innovation policy

• Innovation support measures any action taken or
  (co-) financed by the public sector with the aim
  of influencing innovation processes and
  capacities in enterprises, such as

• State aids to enterprises
• Funding of innovation-services providers
• Creation, diffusion and exchange of knowledge
• Creation of new institutions

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Towards a definition of innovation support
measures

• Typologies of innovation support

• Categorisation resulting from the merging of the
  ERA-Watch and TrendChart policy frameworks

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Major features of innovation support measures

• Main features Intensified co-operation between
  research, universities companies Financing of
  innovation Start-up of technology-based
  companies, Promotion of clustering co-operation
  for innovation, Strengthening the ability of SMEs
  to absorb technologies know-how, Strengthening
  research carried out by companies.

• NMS have initially focused on financing of
  innovation, strategic vision of RD and
  strengthening RD in companies

• More recently , two shifts can be detected The
  development of a different policy mix of measures
  and innovation support instruments, and a shift
  in the emphasis or focus of these measures.

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Emerging trends in support of innovation

• To be further developed under mini-study N.º6

• A brief analysis of small scale survey to TC
  correspondents showing

• New and novel types of innovation support, as
  eco-innovation, focus on gazelles, PPP VC,
  further support to non-tech innovation,
  procurement policies
• Measures transferred from other countries, as RD
  vouchers, Small Business Innovation programmes,
  Centres of Excellence, ...
• New approaches towards innovation support as
  increased stakeholder involvement in innovation
  policy formulation, reduction of regulatory and
  administrative barriers,

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Expenditure on innovation support

• Benchmark administrative costs of innovation
  policy implementation

• Case studies analysis

• Estonias innovation measures implementation
  since 2000
• Study into the efficiency of Members States
  implementation of the Structural Funds (DE, AT,
  IT, FR, UK, ES, EL, PT)
• Small scale survey of TC correspondents on
  external administrative costs to participants
  costs perceived as a barrier to participation and
  policy measures towards more efficiency.

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Future steps

• Next team meeting in early May
• First full draft by 23 May
• Final report by 31 May

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A Framework for the other studies