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Regional Advisory Group meeting 14 March 2012
Policy Audit ToolEco-Innovation Component
Lauri KuukasjärviPäijät-Häme Regional Council
• Forwarding Regional Environmental Sustainable Hierarchies (0499 R2 FRESH);
• Interreg IVC; approved under the 2nd call.
• Duration: 5.11.2009-28.2.2013 Budget: 2 010 312,95€
• Partnership: Kainuun Etu OY-LP (FI); Joint Authority of Kainuu Region (FI); Regional Council of Päijät Häme (FI); Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lahti School of Innovation (FI),
• MidWest Regional Authority (IE), South West Regional Authority (IE), University of Limerick (IE),
• Veneto Region (IT), University of Padova (IT),
• London Thames Gateway Development Corporation (UK; 5.11.2009-30.6.2011),
• West RDA (RO), Lubelskie Voivodeship (PL).
• Website: http://freshproject.eu
FRESH Profile
Objectives• overall objective: Strengthen Sustainable Value Creation(SVC)
development in the regions, by:
• Subobjective1: Address SVC in the regional development plan
• Subobjective2: Strengthen eco-innovation addressing SVC in the regional innovation strategies of the partner regions (formulation of the ecoinnovation component)
Organisation of the work• 11 policy themes; 3 addressing SVC in the regional development
plan and 8 addressing SVC in the regional innovation strategy.
• Good practice collection and analysis (until 16.11.2011) • 51 contributions; 14 partners prioritised ’better practices’;
• 10 of the better practices included in the Intereg IV C data base (13.1.2012)
FRESH Profile
Policy Audit Tools
• What and Why– Policy Audit Tools are there to help partner regions to
evaluate the performance of eco-innovation component after the end of FRESH project
– Specialised, targeted policy audit tools are usually missing from regional actors
– Activity was integrated in FRESH action plan under Component 3, Activity 3.5.
– Common costs shared among the regional authority partners.
Policy Audit Tool
• Background: the priorities from the original FRESH approach + the synergies that resulted later(1) Original FRESH approach
• Environmental Technologies Action Plan, revised EU SDS• Lead Market Initiative • Demand led innovation (standards and public procurement)
(2) Synergies that resulted later• Affinity with the Smart Specilisation strategy
• In conclusion: FRESH introduces & emphasises a – very focused approach to sustainable development and– as such it requires corresponding valuation tools
Policy Audit Tool• State of the art– International competition:
• planning of tender Spring 2011; • tender publication autumn 2011; • selection of expert during the 5th Interregional Steering
Committee in Lublin, PL 15th & 16th.11.2011
– Expert contracted in January 2012, – Consult work• Reviewed material from the regions and
interviewed all partners• Data collection from partners
– available also through the FRESH web site
Policy Audit Tool
• Next steps – Regions to give comments to the tool– Consultant to develop the policy audit tool; – tool is adjusted for each partner region – will be presented in the next international FRESH
meeting in May 2012
Eco-Innovation Component
• What– Main purpose of FRESH is to strengthen the RIS of
the partner regions by integrating Eco-Innovation into RIS of the region
– FRESH proceeded in 2 ways: • first: regional interest toward sector based approach on
innovation – where do the regions want to focus?• Second: through the exchance of good practices
– to identify the methods and tools that – could help the eco-innovation component to happen
Eco-Innovation Component
• Selection of the sector was made by the four criteria: – Competitive criterias plus catching up criteria
• Structure / form– The eco inovation component was originally conceived in
a very straightforward way, comprising four parts:• justification, standards, competencies, and projects in the field
– Each region, supported by PP3, would be making own content (of eco innovation) based on this structure
• Turning point: FRESH synergy with the Smart specialisation strategy
