role of clusters and competence centers in smart specialisation strategy
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PANEL 1: ROLE OF CLUSTERS AND COMPETENCE
CENTERS IN SMART SPECIALISATION STRATEGY
October, 26th 2011
Carmen Sillero
International Programmes Head of Unit
Smart Specialisation Strategy. The concept
EU 2020: Flagship Union for Innovation
Communication “Regional Policy Contributing to Smart Growth in Europe”
Conditionality on the new cohesion framework 2014-2020Conditionality on the new cohesion framework 2014-2020
Regions will be required to identify the sectors, the Regions will be required to identify the sectors, the technological domains, or the major areas of likely technological domains, or the major areas of likely
competitive advantage, and then focus their regional competitive advantage, and then focus their regional policy as to promote innovation in these fields.policy as to promote innovation in these fields.
Smart Specialisation Strategy. The rationale
Focus on specific domains, exploiting their position and regional –based comparative advantage in innovation
Knowledge for Growth Group (K4G) “Transatlantic productivity gap”
Fragmentation and repetition. All regions looking at the same technological domains. Lower level of technological and economic specialisation
European clusters are not the best ranked on the global market, because of low level of competitiveness and international integration, and the failing capacity to internalise the growing knowledge spillovers in innovation and value chains.
Open Innovation System
More complex form of governance, decentralised coordination
specialisation
The current and most likely lasting time of austerity and tightening of public spending.
To concentrate resources on few key priorities rather than spreading investment thinly across areas and business sector.
S3 Elements SPECIALISATION
Identifying the
technological
domains to be
prioritised as a part
of a regional strategy
GLOBAL CONTEXT
Searching elements on which to base COMPETITIVE of a regional strategy
to reach a
competitive
advantage:
CONTEXT AND
HISTORY
ENTREPRENEURIAL
SEARCH PROCESS
EMBEDEDNESS
Searching elements on which to base COMPETITIVE
ADVANTAGE and consistency as a part of a global value
chain
CONNECTIVITY
ACCESS TO MARKETS
Critical development of local linkages
Searching and exploiting the TECHNOLOGICAL
RELATEDNESS, to build new technological domains and
sectors: BRANCHING EFFECT
S3 and peripheral regions. Questions and doubts
In peripheral regions, entrepreneurial processes tend to be less successful
Lack of connectivity
Too specialised economy, insufficiently diversified
Small market potential
Low level global integration
Searching and exploiting the
Fostering learning linkages with industrial production zones and knowledge regions
Regional policy focus on foster human capital formation for the new “knowledge needs”
Following region access to problem solving expertise
Will S3 approach drive lagging regions to focus on its traditional domains?
Outflow of knowledge skills???
Will the core advanced regions be the only ones able to focus their specialisation on knowledge based technologies?
How will the forthcoming Cohesion Framework continue supporting the emerging domains in peripheral regions, launched in the period 2007-2013?
Searching and exploiting the TECHNOLOGICAL RELATEDNESS,
TECNOLOGICAL DIVERSIFICATION OF MAJOR EMBEDED INDUSTRIES
IC-MED PARTNERS ARE INVITED
