Richard Tuffs, Director ERRIN

1. Regions for Economic Change June 23 and 24th 2011BrusselsThe Making Knowledge Work IVC Project Richard Tuffs, Director ERRIN

2. Making Knowledge Work Description Objectives Partners Activities Impact Final conference

3. Making Knowledge Work “Making Knowledge Work” (MKW) is a project co-funded by the European Union’s Regional Development Fund (INTERREG IVC programme) and has been designated as a Capitalisation Fast Track project of the European Commission under the “Regions for Economic Change Initiative”. MKW aims to exploit ideas and foster smart, sustainable growth by exchanging experience on how regions support the process of commercialisation of ideas and R&D results.

4. Partners Birmingham City Council Brainport Development NV (lead partner) Chamber of Commerce Milan/Innovhub Culminatum Innovation Oy Ltd Navarra Government, DG Enterprise ERRIN, European Regions Research and Innovation Network Flanders District Of Creativity vzw Nord France Innovation Développement Lancaster University Management School Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart GmbH Kujawsko-Pomorskie Region (Voivodship) Łódzkie Region (Voivodship) Lund University

5. Why? Innovation is the key to competitiveness and of fostering smart economies that can sustain jobs and growth in Europe. Innovation can provide solutions to societal challenges, such as climate change, ageing, etc. But there is an innovation paradox… Research and ideas for new products, services and processes do not always find its way into commercially valuable innovations and excellent ideas of universities, researchers, companies and inventors are often not used and turned into services and products. MKW aims to bridge this gap within the innovation chain through concrete policy actions involving key stakeholders and innovation actors in the 12 partners/regions.

6. Regions key players in research and innovation • Context /needs • Critical mass • Implement innovation strategies supporting innovation eco-systems

7. Regions

8. Objectives Fact-finding missions between regions Exchange of good practice through a good practice database Regional Action Plans to be developed based on good practices observed in regional visits Mainstreaming guide MKW knowledge base

9. Three Brussels Briefings • Innovation Union • Brainport • Teaching the innovation process – how it can support entrepreneur and SME innovation capacity • Aalto University • Nord Pas de Calais • Lancaster University • Competence Centres, Pôles de Compétitivité, Technopoles and Clusters – how they link to S3? • Stuttgart • Navarra

10. Impact 1 MKW best practices have influenced the Navarra Regional Innovation and Economy Strategy with 16 million allocated to MKW topics as start ups, creating new firms and stimulating entrepreneurship in SMEs Milan has incorporated a competence centre approach (from Stuttgart) into their regional innovation strategy Kujawsko-Pomorskie has implemeted an Innovation Lab inspired by Mobile Heights (Oresund), a Creative Conversion Factory (Brainport, Eindhoven and Aalto University) and implemented a precommercial procurement in their region inspired by Helsinki

11. Impact 2 Birmingham will introduce a Birmingham Innovation Engine supporting SME valorisation processes using an Innoscope tool from NFID in Lille Lille have adapted their Regional Innovation Strategy including elements such as patents from Lund and Eindhoven and entrepreneur assessment from Mobile Heights and Integral university cooperation from Helsinki…

12. Problems and solutions • Mainstreaming - many regions have no ERDF funding left (Brainport Eindhoven , Stuttgart Birmingham, Lancaster, Lodz) or the funding is already allocated to other topics • Broaden the definition of mainstreaming to include a wider range of regional, national and European funds (FP7, Interreg) • Activities without funding needs are still results

13. Problems and solutions 2 • No funding for regional action plans implementation pilots in Interreg IVC • Low stakeholder involvement/commitment for implementation of strategies, where no funding is available • Introduce pilot options in new Interreg IVC approach • Creative thinking!

14. Future research and innovation Three broad priorities Objectives

15. Recommendations • Retain and strengthen territorial cooperation model with increased funding to include some pilot projects • Retain and strengthen Regions of Knowledge building on the triple helix model but retain the RoK with the Common Strategic Framework on Research and Innovation (retaining a regional interest in Research and Innovation) • Need to collaborate in the region before collaborating outside the region • Build synergies between the two programmes: • Communication, coordination and cooperation • Funding overlap

16. Final conference MKW will have two sessions at the Creativity World Forum, Hasselt, Belgium, 16th-17th November 2011 http://www.creativityworldforum.be/en/events/cwf11/agenda

17. Contact ERRIN Project leader Laurens Meijering Brainport Development PO Box 2181, 5600 CD, Eindhoven, Netherlands l.meijering@brainportdevelopment.nl Phone: +31 6 1098 0554 Martin Wegele ERRIN Avenue Palmerston 23, 1000 Brussels, Belgium communication@errin.eu Phone: +32 2 230 56 41 http://www.makingknowledgework.eu