Guide to Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation

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have to spend 20% of their ERDF allocations on this topic, and the less developed regions 6%. Rural development policy has also reinforced its contribution for the energy investments. Yet, achieving the EU's 20-20-20 objectives on greenhouse gas emissions, energy efficiency and renewables will require further innovations and a revolutionised energy system. In addition to this large scale roll-out of already established solutions, research and innovation will thus be critical to make new, cleaner, more efficient energy sources commercially attractive at the scale needed. The Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan) 161 provides a long term agenda to address the key innovation bottlenecks. Thus, in assessing their position and assets in the context of the development and the subsequent implementation of their innovation strategies for smart specialisation, regions are invited to make full use of the knowledge developed in the framework of the SET-Plan. Eco-innovations The forthcoming EU Eco-Innovation Action Plan underscores that eco-innovations are central to addressing the challenges of resource scarcity, air, water and soil pollution or water efficiency. Eco-innovations also create major opportunities for growth and jobs and increase European competitiveness within the global market, which is estimated to grow to a trillion € market after 2015 162 . Already 45% of companies have introduced some type of ecoinnovation. It has been estimated that around 4% of eco-innovations led to more than a 40% reduction of material use per unit of output 163 , highlighting the great future potential. They must be promoted not only through technologies, but also through business processes and organisational change. In particular a closed-loop economy that aims to reduce, in absolute terms, inputs, waste and the release of harmful substances along the value chain and foster re-use, recycling and resource substitution should be further reinforced. This needs new business models, industrial symbiosis, product service systems, product design, full life cycle and cradle-to-cradle approaches. Managing authorities are encouraged to put eco-innovations at the core of their innovation strategies as a cross-cutting requirement in all sectors, liaising with the area specific stakeholders in the field of energy, water and other natural resource management. The aim is to embed eco-innovations from the outset in the design and development of the strategies and programmes for innovation and tap into its opportunities. Nature Eventually, the challenges regions face in terms of adaptation to climate change and the preservation and management of their natural assets ask for innovative approaches for regions to fully benefit from the underlying opportunities. Nature and its resources need to be fully integrated in the regional approaches to sustainable growth and the national/regional innovation strategies for smart specialisation. 161 http://ec.europa.eu/energy/technology/set_plan/set_plan_en.htm 162 European Parliament 'Policy Department Economic and Scientific Policy, Eco-innovation - putting the EU on the path to a resource and energy efficient economy, Study and briefing notes', March 2009. 163Eco-innovation Observatory 'The Eco-Innovation Challenge - Pathways to a resource-efficient Europe - Annual Report 2010', May 2011. 106
First, the sustainable management of a region's natural assets needs research and innovation to further build knowledge and practical outcomes in terms of improved preservation and management instruments, practices and applications. Second, a region's natural assets can be the very start of innovation activities and the development of new technologies or solutions, as for instance in the case of renewable energy sources but also the expansion of the bioeconomy. Therefore innovative methods need to be taken into account to monitor and manage nature in broad partnerships that include the business community, the agriculture and forestry sector, civil society and municipalities. Action is also very much needed in the realm of social innovation, to engage communities positively in the preservation of the local natural resources and assets. 107
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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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problems, when regions remain too s
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Each country and region will, of co
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preparation and discussion of scena
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But how to present the prioritised
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