RIS3 as a tool to promote transnational

cooperation in innovationFrancesco Molinari, mail@francescomolinari.it

MED JOINT CAPITALISATION CONFERENCE2nd April 2014

Chamber of Commerce and Industry Marseille Provence

The “Third Globalisation”

First wave: MarketsIncreasing openness and “thickness” due to Free Trade reforms

Second round: Manufacturing sitesGeographical redistribution of production places where the cost of labour (and living) is lower

Third round: (Segments of) Value ChainsGeographical redistribution of (some of the) corporate activities that, taken together, concur to a product/service design, assembly, consumption and disposal or recycling.

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Example (1)

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Example (2)

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Example (3)

Source: Carlo Gianelle

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Notable Dynamics

Functional integration Vs. disintegrationExample: a firm creates / dismisses an internal design team

Stability (or persistence) of business relationsExample: a firm joins / leaves a network of OEM’s or subcontractors

Multiple value chainsExample: Forestry Furniture, Forestry Pulp & Paper

Sectorial diversificationMore often driven by product, rather than process, innovation

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Detectable Value Streams

ExportRevenues “Globalized” firms Intra-region

Purchases

LocalSMEs

Internal Demand (including from PA)“Foreign” firms

Administrative border of a Region

Instruments:- Free Trade- Public Procurement

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Looking for impact

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Source: Stefano Casini Benvenuti

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Looking for connections

Source: Emanuele Fabbri

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Looking for connections (2)

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Looking for complementarities

Source: Invitalia

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Limits of Local Knowledge

“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it”

Attributed to Albert EinsteinKnowledge is no longer localised (if it ever was) geographically and sectorially, but diffused and distributed across actors and territories

The issue is not that much of accessing it, but giving order, sense, logic to available information

A coordination problem that adds to Entrepreneurial Discovery

In the sense of Foray

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Detectable (?) K-Flows

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Source: Bathelt 2002

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Impacts (1)

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Spurce: MET 2012

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Impacts (2)

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International cooperation is conducive to all kinds of

innovation…

…BUT cooperation with competitors can significantly

harm entrepreneurial capacity to innovate

…BUTregional / national

cooperation has little or no effect,

esp. on DULALL

types of interaction matter…

CONCLUSIONS:

1) Excessive territorial proximity may be detrimental to innovation

2) Heterogeneity of industrial agents is important

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Increasing role for ETC

Experimentation space for Macro-Regional Strategies

Danube, Adriatic-IonianTransnational dimension of Blue Growth

Especially relevant to MED SpaceNew links with ENPI and Sea Basin policies

Extending scope and relevanceSpatial dimension of Territorial Cohesion

Bringing ESPON into actionAnd more…

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Framework for «outward looking» policies in the RIS3 context

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Triple loop learning

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Policies Programmes Projects Results

Single Loop Learning

“How to do things right”

Double Loop Learning

“How to do the right things”

Triple Loop Learning

“How to decide what is right”

Indicators

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Difficulties faced

Lack of recognition of ETC as a strategic, relevant and exploitable contribution to RIS3

“Silo” effect of organization in most regions Too little money, too fine granularity of experience to be relevantTight time-scales of RIS3, little possibility to pay attention

Barriers to contributing to broader challengesPolicy discontinuity from programme to programmeLack of capitalization, integration of resultsCapacity building of policy makersNeed of integrating the private sector

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Case in point

CreativeMED shows how Territorial Cooperation can bring added-value to Regional Innovation Policies by not only sharing and transferring good practices but also exchanging and integrating support resources and infrastructures trans-locally

CreativeMED shows how field-based experience, conclusions and best practices of pilot projects can be transformed through an integrated model that can guide broader and/or higher-impact policy processes and choices

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Open Issues

Links between emergent bottom-up macro-regional strategies and top-down definitions

Openness vs coordinationPlatforms for sustainability of policy learning and innovation processes

Long term support to social and institutional innovation

Applicability of CreativeMED model to other TN-ETC geographical areas

Cultural framing of macro-regional modelsTowards a Europe of multiple roads to innovation

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Thank you for your attention

Francesco MolinariMunicipality of Prato

mail@francescomolinari.it

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