Guide to Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation

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• The development of smart specialisation strategies should include the issues of the market-up-take and of public procurement needs among the starting points for identifying the fields of specialisation. Funding for instance the development of energyefficient technologies becomes more credible and has more impact, if the public sector buys them as a lead customer for applying and testing them in practice; • To encourage procurers to purchase innovative solutions by rewarding them and by decreasing the potential innovation costs and financial risks through ERDF con-funding; • To recognise the procurement phase as strategic in public policy cycles, by associating procurement departments at a early stage in the definition of a project and of regional innovation strategies for smart growth; • To support transparency: for the procurers, to better know the market and stimulate innovation; and, for businesses (in particular SMEs) to better understand and anticipate the requirements of contracting authorities; • To support a change in procurement practices towards more demanding requirements / specifications to pull innovations to the market (e.g. related to green public procurement and life-cycle-costing) in order to encourage the procurer to become an 'intelligent' customer 130 . This can be achieved through better preparatory work and capacity building in procurement offices both regards the identification of state-of-the-art technologies / solutions in the market and regards the capacity to manage complex procurement procedures. Concrete actions to develop • To support the capacity building of procurement departments through training, exchanges of civil servants / procurement officers and exchanges and promotion of good practices amongst peers 131 (e.g. awarding prizes for the best innovation procurement or methodology 132 ), and developing guidance 133 , including sector orientation such as for health 134 , construction 135 , energy efficiency 136 or protective textile 137 , by building procurers groups and networks 138 ; • To support procurers to better engage with the market 139 by involving innovation agencies 140 , chambers of commerce, cluster organisations / Sectoral platforms, SME support organisations (e.g. Enterprise Europe Network 141 ) and other bodies that can assist in developing demanding specifications; • To invite and guide procurers to join forces with others, in order to attain critical mass that makes it interesting for firms to develop innovative solutions for a bid and in order to pool capacities (legal, procedural, knowledge on market, technologies and performance levels, administrative budgets for the procurement processes, etc.); 130 http://www.proinno-europe.eu 131 http://www.comune.torino.it/relint/PPI/ 132 http://lcc.sustainable-procurement.org/ 133 http://www.europroc.eu/public/docs/europroc__navigate_change__public_procurement_4fgd.pdf 134 http://lowcarbon-healthcare.eu/ 135 http://www.sci-network.eu/fileadmin/templates/scinetwork/files/Resource_Centre/Reports/Innovation_in_construction_procurement_-_Preliminary_report.pdf 136 http://www.smart-spp.eu/index.php?id=7633 137 http://www.enprotex.eu 138 http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/innovation/policy/public-procurement/index_en.htm#h2-1 139 http://www.smart-spp.eu/fileadmin/template/projects/smart_spp/files/D1- 3_report_on_impacts_on_the_market.pdf 140 http://www.proinno-europe.eu/inno-grips-ii/article/fostering-innovation-through-public-procurement 141 http://www.enterprise-europe-network.ec.europa.eu/index_en.htm 102
• To support financially the procurement of innovative solutions (goods & services), through targeted and limited grants to contracting authorities. Where to get inspiration • The Procurement Forum from various procurement of innovation fields provides access to a community of procurers with experience in the field of innovation 142 ; • Trans-national networks between Public Procurement for innovation were set up with the support of the CIP programme to facilitate the sharing of good practices and the joint market and technology screening and development of specifications around selected topics: sustainable construction of hospitals 143 , protective textiles for fire brigades 144 and sustainable construction 145 . Many of their methodological findings are of a general nature and can inspire innovative procurement initiatives in other fields; • Several on-going projects dedicated to support networks of European procurers engaged in pre-commercial procurement are running under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) 146 ; • European Commission actions to support the development of Green Public Procurement that are boosting the procurement of innovation and eco-innovative solutions 147 . • The Enterprise Europe Network also developed 3 networks of members dedicated to facilitate the meeting between innovative SMEs and public buyers of innovation 148 . • Member States (UK 149 , NL 150 , FI 151 , SE, BE, AT, FR, IT, SP…) and Regions (Flanders 152 , Észak-Alföld 153 , Helsinki metropolitan area 154 , Greater London 155 …) are implementing schemes for enhancing public procurement of innovation and precommercial procurement; • Several European studies are supporting the policy support to procurement of innovative solutions (e.g. Public Procurement of Innovation: Towards a European Scheme 156 ); • Information on EU level policy development for procurement of innovative solutions 157 . 142 https://procurementforum.viadesk.com/do/login/ 143 http://lowcarbon-healthcare.eu/ 144 http://www.enprotex.eu/ 145 http://www.sci-network.eu/ 146 http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/pcp/home_en.html 147 http://ec.europa.eu/environment/gpp/index_en.htm 148 http://www.prismeprocurement.eu; http://www.winningtenders.eu/t4sme-tender-trial/; http://www.dubchamber.ie/ 149 http://www.bis.gov.uk/policies/innovation/procurement 150 http://www.agentschapnl.nl/onderwerp/aanbesteden-van-innovaties 151 http://www.tekes.fi/about/publicprocurements/funding 152 http://www.procurementofinnovation.eu/ 153 http://innova.eszak-alfold.hu/?lang=en 154 http://innova.eszak-alfold.hu/?lang=en 155 http://www.london.gov.uk/rp/ 156 http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/innovation/policy/lead-market-initiative/pp-conf2_en.htm 157 http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/innovation/policy/public-procurement/index_en.htm 103
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European Union Regional Policy Guid
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Dominique Foray John Goddard Xabier
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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ....
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LIST OF REGIONAL EXAMPLES Example 1
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horizontal approaches. These were i
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Smart specialisation has also been
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asked to play within that process i
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Who: Putting entrepreneurial knowle
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• Secondly, this process is carri
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Therefore, they should not be thoug
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Tools suitable for this kind of ana
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Step 3 - Elaboration of an overall
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Step 6 - Integration of monitoring
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ANNEXES 27
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Step 1 - Analysis of the regional c
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problems, when regions remain too s
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3. 'Cluster' in-depth case studies
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national government agencies and th
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Each country and region will, of co
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side of the box provides a typology
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preparation and discussion of scena
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