Guide to Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation
Guide to Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation
Guide to Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation
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Type of<br />
OECD<br />
region by<br />
economic<br />
profile<br />
Medium-tech<br />
manufacturin<br />
g <strong>and</strong> service<br />
providers<br />
Industrial<br />
production<br />
regions with<br />
relatively high<br />
knowledge<br />
absorptive<br />
capacities<br />
Structural<br />
inertia or deindustrializin<br />
g regions<br />
Non-S&T-driven<br />
regions with<br />
persistent<br />
development<br />
traps<br />
Table 8 - 'Supporting socio-economic trans<strong>for</strong>mation': examples of regional strategies <strong>and</strong> associated policy mixes<br />
Source: OECD 2011<br />
High<br />
Degree of regional STI policy competences<br />
Medium Low<br />
Strategy: modernising productive activities <strong>to</strong>wards value-added niches: '<strong>Innovation</strong> ecosystem strategy'<br />
• Supporting science-industry linkages (personnel<br />
exchange <strong>and</strong> placement schemes; technology<br />
advisory services; technology diffusion)<br />
• Regional agencies <strong>for</strong> innovation promotion,<br />
combining technology transfer with other services<br />
• Promote innovation start-ups (business angels<br />
networks, men<strong>to</strong>ring schemes, regional seed <strong>and</strong><br />
venture capital funds)<br />
• Densification <strong>and</strong> internationalisation of regional<br />
production clusters<br />
• Regional public procurement oriented <strong>to</strong>wards<br />
innovation<br />
• Local knowledge centres branches of national<br />
knowledge hubs (focus on diffusion)<br />
• Education <strong>and</strong> training activities in firms<br />
• Supporting connection <strong>to</strong> international production<br />
networks<br />
• Regional <strong>for</strong>a <strong>to</strong> identify growth prospects in niches<br />
with value-added<br />
• <strong>Innovation</strong> <strong>and</strong> entrepreneurship culture promotion<br />
• Technology plat<strong>for</strong>ms (linking technical<br />
schools <strong>and</strong> SMEs)<br />
• Technology transfer centres in relevant<br />
sec<strong>to</strong>rs, co-funded by national government<br />
• Regional advisory network; networks<br />
fostering synergies <strong>and</strong> complementarity<br />
between national agencies in the region <strong>and</strong><br />
regional agencies<br />
• <strong>Innovation</strong> vouchers <strong>for</strong> SMEs<br />
• Support <strong>for</strong> young graduate recruitment in<br />
firms<br />
Strategy: stimulating knowledge absorption <strong>and</strong> entrepreneurial dynamism<br />
• Supply-chain management initiatives <strong>to</strong><br />
reduce fragmentation<br />
• <strong>Innovation</strong>-oriented public procurement<br />
• Redefinition of programmes <strong>for</strong> regional<br />
technical schools<br />
• <strong>Innovation</strong> awareness raising,<br />
entrepreneurship promotion events<br />
• Concentration of regional action on<br />
non-traded sec<strong>to</strong>rs<br />
• Support innovation in service or<br />
cultural industries<br />
• Small-scale cluster support with an<br />
orientation <strong>to</strong>wards connection <strong>to</strong><br />
global networks<br />
• <strong>Innovation</strong> vouchers, targeting<br />
'innovation beginners'<br />
• Develop latent dem<strong>and</strong> <strong>for</strong> innovation<br />
(innovation vouchers, placement of<br />
students in SME )<br />
• Orient polytechnics: <strong>to</strong> new<br />
qualifications<br />
• Training <strong>for</strong> low skilled <strong>and</strong><br />
unemployed<br />
• Support <strong>to</strong> clusters with innovation<br />
potential<br />
• Supporting inclusion of region in<strong>to</strong><br />
international production networks<br />
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