IMplementing Innovation Strategies IMIS

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IMplementing Innovation Strategies IMIS

• Support actions to RIS-NAC processes Project
  Meeting
• Ljubljana
• 6 June 2005

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The IMIS Partners

• Co-ordinator LOGOTECH SA (Greece)
• Partners
• ADVANSIS Oy (Finland)
• CICOM Organisation  Centre International de
  Communication et d Opérations Multimedia 
  (France)
• i.con innovation GmbH (Germany)

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IMIS OBJECTIVES (I)

• To identify the local contact points for the
  implementation of the regional innovation
  measures
• To identify the maturity level of the measures in
  order to propose the relevant expert work
• To map the regional needs according to the
  proposed actions, maturity level political
  involvement and commitment, in collaboration with
  those developed the RIS-NACs Action Plans and the
  IRE secretariat.
• To elaborate and create a continuously updated
  database of expertise and experts that could
  promote appropriate counselling schemes that
  helping towards the implementation of the
  actions.
• To cover significant expert areas that show
  increased density of counselling needs. These
  areas match with the proven track record of our
  experts in developing relevant innovation policy
  schemes in the EU and in transferring excellence
  among EU members and in NACS.

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IMIS OBJECTIVES (II)

• To support the counselling services with enriched
  activities, outside the core thematic expertise.
  Such activities are awareness raising, visiting
  schemes organization, project planning and
  organization (GOPP), events on regional
  entrepreneurship promotion etc.
• To create a continuous momentum of information
  exchange and experts support and availability
  through online web support.
• To continuously evaluate and rate the expert work
  and the functionality and use of the counselling
  services through discussions and special forms
  with the regional contacts responsible.
• To create a memory mechanism in the IMIS
  project that will provide at any time information
  on the successes and failures in order to develop
  a self improving mechanism.
• To cover 9 RIS-NACs regions.

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IMIS REGIONS

• Silesia (Poland)
• Opole/Bohemia (Poland/Czech Republic)
• Prague/Pilsen (Czech Republic)
• South Transdanubia (Hungary)
• Central Transdanubia (Hungary)
• South Great Plain (Hungary)
• Tartu region (Estonia)
• West Romania (Romania)
• Nitra region (Slovakia)

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IMIS REGIONS
Prague / Pilsen Czech Rep.
Opole / Bohemia Poland / Czech Rep.
Silesia (Poland)
Central Transdanubia Hungary
South Great Plain Hungary
South Transdanubia Hungary
West Romania Romania
Nitra Region Slovakia
Tartu Region Estonia
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IMIS Counseling Flow Idea
Analyzing the scene
Organization of Counseling Schemes
Defining the Maturity Level of the Regional
Actions
Defining Key Political Actors and Regional
Contacts
Website Support Database Development
Defining the Maturity Level of the Regional
Actions
Mapping Regional Excellence, Experts and Expertise
Defining Regional Policy Priorities Demands
Monitoring and Evaluation of the Experts work
Defining the Maturity Level of the Regional
Actions
First completion of the Website support
Enriching Regional Excellence, Expertise
Awareness and Dissemination
First Draft of the Database
Feedback to B C
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IMIS WORK PLAN

• WP1 Project Management
• WP2 Contact Building / Analysis of the current
  situation (priority demands maturity level of
  the projects in the RIS NACs Regions)
• WP3 Mapping of regional Excellence
• WP4 Database development
• WP5 Counselling Schemes
• WP6 Follow-up of the individual measures,
  quality control, reporting mechanisms to be
  arranged with the benefiting RIS-NAC regions
• WP7 Awareness raising - Dissemination

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WP1 Project Management

• Coordination of the activities Logotech SA
• Reporting to the commission
• Evaluation of the management activities
• Monitoring and evaluation of the counselling
  schemes (WP6).

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WP2 Contact Building / Analysis of the current
situation (I)

• Objectives
• Prime objective to provide further and updated
  analysis of the priority demands of the RIS-NAC
  regions in order to facilitate the counselling
  procedure, the experts information support and
  the search of Excellence in European Regions.
• Identification of key political actors and
  regional contact points
• Steering Group Involvement
• Local Experts active participation

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WP2 Contact Building / Analysis of the current
situation (II)

• Task 2.1. Contact Building
• Steps for Development
• First identification of the contact details
• Cross check and updating of the contact details,
  role and nature of the organisations and persons
  responsible for the implementation of the
  RIS-NACs action plans
• Preparation of brief documentation with experts,
  and expertise available.
• Preparatory work on the regions needs preliminary
  analysis
• Direct contact though telephone, e-mail, visits
  to the responsible persons.
• Discussion on the nature of the counselling
  service
• Follow-up and five tuning of the information flow

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WP2 Contact Building / Analysis of the current
situation (III)

• Task 2.2. Analysis of the current situation
• Analysis of the regional innovation policy in NAC
  countries.
• Main Trends and Challenges in Innovation policy
  in the NACs
• Main decisions and planning of the structural
  funds at regional and national level in the NACs
  (in collaboration with local experts)
• Structural funds and Innovation in the NACs
• Main Trends from the implementation of Structural
  funds and innovation support in the Member
  States.
• Key Indicators, implementation and evaluation
  criteria.
• Monitoring mechanisms (observatories) for
  innovation at regional level.
• Main EU innovation policy directions

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WP3 Mapping of regional Excellence (I)

• Objective
• The mapping of Regional Excellence will support
  the development of proposals for know-how
  transfer mechanisms as well as will support more
  effectively the work of the experts.

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WP3 Mapping of regional Excellence (II)

• The main sources that will be used as a basis in
  order to identify Regional Excellence are the
  following
• PAXIS, IRE-IRC network, Trend Chart on
  Innovation, RINNO, Trends on Innovation Policy in
  NACs, Excellence in developing structural funds
  and Innovation
• The categories of the information will be
  classified based on their content as
• Thematic, National, Regional, Delivery mechanism
• These information will be available in the
  projects website based on the previous
  categorization.

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WP4 Database development (I)

• Objective
• To develop a database including all experts and
  expertise available by the project that could be
  used for counselling services by the RIS-NACs
  regions

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WP4 Database development (II)

• The selection of the expertise will be based on
  the following factors
• Proven track record of the experts in key areas
  of regional innovation policy
• Innovation financing
• Academia/research and businesses links
• Business networks, clusters and innovation poles
• Technology foresight and market intelligence
• Awareness raising of public interest and target
  groups
• Innovation support infrastructures, services and
  agencies
• Sect oral support of innovative firms and SMEs
• Facilitation Mechanisms for decision making
  (GOPP)
• Knowledge transfer among regions (visiting
  schemes)
• Structural funds formulation and implementation
• Counselling of the public sector and regional
  authorities on the implementation of innovation
  policy measures

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WP4 Database development (III)

• Key sources for the enrichment of the available
  expertise according to the needs of the regions.
• IMIS project consists of people that have worked
  in Key European
• Projects for regional innovation support such as
• RITTS, RIS, RTP, TRIPS, Innovating Regions, Trend
  Chart on
• Innovation, and RINNO, PAXIS pilot action,
  Structural Funds
• design, allocation evaluation, Regional
  Development Framework
• Policies, European Innovation Policy (EC)
• Ability of the experts to work in an
  international environment and projects
• Definition of the time-availability of experts
• Facilitation of contacts and development of rapid
  mutual understanding

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WP5 Counselling Schemes (I)

• Objective
• The use of all available information in order to
  promote bridging between the RIS-NACs regions
  that are ready to implement regional initiatives.
  The bridging will result in the implementation of
  an advisory scheme that will provide a specific
  number of man days to the regional authorities /
  key organization of the RIS-NACs regions in order
  to develop a specific innovation action.

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WP5 Counselling Schemes (II)

• The development of the counselling scheme is
  based on the following issues
• The correct collecting analysis and assessment of
  the needs of the regions
• Personal contacts are always important but a
  system approach in creating request for
  counselling schemes needs to be developed
• Development of personal contact with the key
  individuals in the field
• Consultation procedure will last from up to 70
  days of experts work per expert per region.

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WP5 Counselling Schemes (III)

• The experts will have to provide to the
  consortium and the management team an assessment
  of the work that they will perform and the
  estimated budget
• During the course of the counselling scheme the
  expert has to inform the relevant partner on his
  progress and to report and pitfalls that might
  create problems to his job or even harm the image
  of the consortium.
• After the end of the assignment the experts will
  be evaluated on their work by the regions and the
  relevant individuals. The scoring will affect the
  next possible assignment with IMIS.
• It is estimated that a total number of 25-40
  assignments will be carried out

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WP5 Counselling Schemes (IV)

• IMIS will focus primarily on the implementation
  of the non-financing elements of the regional
  innovation strategy concerned.
• Indicative activities that could be performed by
  IMIS in the nine regions are mainly related to
  Innovation and RD Management and support
  activities
• Collateral arrangements, securing, special
  funding (e.g. export support) Soft loans
  special risk sharing mechanisms Equity loans
  for start-ups
• Spin off funding mechanisms from public research
  institutions, universities and large corporations
• IPR equity arrangements, laboratory leasing,
  entrepreneurial leave arrangements
• New trends in traditional RD funding

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WP5 Counselling Schemes (V)

• Mechanisms to attract foreign research funding
• Taking better stock of international research
  funding at regional level
• EC framework programme Directing structural
  funds more into research Opening of national
  programmes funding Participation in
  international networks (COST, Eureka, Cimo,...)
• Funding of further education, research chair
  systems, apprenticeships etc.
• Increasing the efficiency of existing research
  innovation funding
• Using Excellence for Innovation Promotion and
  Policy making
• Promotion of Innovation Management Techniques
  (IMT), Technology Innovation Audit and Technology
  Foresight and Watch services
• Enterprise networking schemes, Schemes to enhance
  Technology Transfer and Exploitation of RTD

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WP6 Follow-up of the individual measures,
quality control, reporting mechanisms to be
arranged with the benefiting RIS-NAC regions (I)

• Objective
• The assessment of the work performed by the
  experts to the regions and the identification of
  the success indicators and the development of the
  projects impact assessment.

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WP6 Follow-up of the individual measures,
quality control, reporting mechanisms to be
arranged with the benefiting RIS-NAC regions (II)

• A self assessment method will be developed.
  This method will be launched in the projects
  website (intranet) and will include a
  questionnaire that will entail relevant questions
  addressed to the experts, in order to evaluate
  their work.
• A separate questionnaire will be filled in by the
  regions, in order to evaluate based on their
  experience, the assistance received by the
  proposed experts. This questionnaire will be
  prepared with the collaboration of the regions,
  in order to address their standards of the
  counselling sessions.

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WP7 Awareness raising Dissemination (I)

• Objective
• The promotion of IMIS work to all interested
  regions through the development of our website
  and the production of leaflets, as well as the
  dissemination of the projects results through
  the organization of GOPP Sessions and Visiting
  Schemes.

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WP7 Awareness raising Dissemination (II)

• Task 7.1. Development of projects website
• Task 7.2.Leflets Production
• Task 7.3. Organization of GOPP Sessions
  Visiting Schemes

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IMIS Time Plan