Commission staff working document
PA Innovation – Exploiting the full potential of the region in research, innovation and SME, utilising the Digital Single Market as a source for attracting talents and investments
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- 1. Contributing in building an ecosystem for innovation and entrepreneurship by 2020 in the Baltic Sea region, based on smart specialisation and sustainable growth for increased competitiveness.
- A strategic action plan for 2016-2020
PA Innovation – Exploiting the full potential of the region in research, innovation and SME, utilising the Digital Single Market as a source for attracting talents and investmentsCoordinated by: Poland and Sweden The focus of the policy area ‘Innovation’ is to promote global competitiveness and growth in the Baltic Sea region (BSR) through support for entrepreneurship, business development, science and increased innovation capacity. Research, innovation, entrepreneurship, small and medium sized (SMEs) and single market, are closely inter-linked themes, which are of key importance in achieving the objective ‘Increase Prosperity’. Since policy areas ‘Innovation’ and ‘SME’ were to a large extent thematically overlapping, the two areas, as well as partly policy area ‘Internal Market’ and horizontal action ‘Promo’, have been put into the policy area ‘Innovation’. The greatest added value for policy area ‘Innovation’ will be achieved if priority is given to challenges where the BSR is or has the potential to become stronger in a global context. The potential for smart and sustainable growth and new jobs should be explored in many sectors, including the marine and maritime sector. To further explore regional strengths, innovative milieus, the cluster and SME-network cooperation approach at transnational level will be cornerstones when applying the smart specialisation concept (including joint initiatives involving cluster organisations to form cross-regional European cluster partnerships), combining strengths, competences, research and development (R&D) and players in the whole BSR in a smart way. In doing so, there are good opportunities for actors such as companies, universities and public organizations, to become globally leading innovation players in several specific fields. This could increase the creation of a number of smart, cross-sectoral and cross-regional partnerships involving cluster organisations from related industries, similar to efforts undertaken by the Vanguard initiative regions (http://www.s3vanguardinitiative.eu/). This will make the BSR an attractive region for partnership and cooperation with other strong innovative regions in the world and it will support companies in the BSR to increase their global competitiveness. For SMEs in particular, BSR as a home market will be an important step in becoming active on the global market. Due to the small markets in the BSR, it is essential that appropriate measures will be taken to upgrade the business environment. In order to enhance the business environment it is essential to fully exploit the possibilities of the digital economy and innovation and to ensure equal access and a removal of barriers to the digital markets for SMEs and consumers. A policy framework conducive to investors and a dynamic business environment offers the best options for sustaining high levels of development in the BSR. The current economic situation makes it especially important to stimulate further integration of the markets in the BSR to make the area attractive to new start-ups and investors. In order to build up fully functioning Single Market the solution lies in maximum harmonization in the fields of goods, services and digital. The digital economy can be a source of innovation and growth in the BSR, but there is a need to explore and better exploit the global strengths in the region through increased macro-regional collaboration in order to create a European digital economy and society with a long-term growth potential. The division between more established R&D institutions on the northern and western shores versus newly established or reformed institutions on the eastern and south-eastern shores of the Baltic Sea is still very present, despite recent high growth in the eastern parts. This is also reflected in the latest Innovation Union Scoreboard 2014. The BSR includes some of the innovation top-performers in Europe, and others that are lagging behind. To draw the full benefits from the regions innovation potential, a more coherent approach is needed, based on cooperation and trust. The BSR Members States intend to perform on well-balanced and coherent approach aiming to bridge the existing gaps in the innovation performance and take into the consideration the broader scope of utilizing mutual open innovation processes and best practice/knowledge-sharing platforms. Such a focus on innovation has the added advantage of developing the BSR economy away from a traditional high-footprint industrial focus towards more sustainable profit-making sectors. It is also important to make full use of the opportunities to cooperate within the framework of the European Research Area (ERA). Targets and indicators A comprehensive system for the design, the monitoring and the follow-up of indicators and targets will be set up in 2016 under the responsibility of the policy area coordinators. The still missing targets and deadline, baseline, and statistics/data sources related to the below indicators will be defined.
Actions 1. Contributing in building an ecosystem for innovation and entrepreneurship by 2020 in the Baltic Sea region, based on smart specialisation and sustainable growth for increased competitiveness. The ecosystem is based on the results of all the flagships which address the following four challenges: reduce existing innovation barriers, including the harmonization of different legal and regulatory environments for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), particularly for further developing the demand-side approaches to innovation; facilitate trans-national cooperation for the development and commercial exploitation of joint research projects; utilize together the high-level human capital in the region and promote the mobility of researchers; and cooperation between students and companies; jointly develop new and better innovation support instruments, including Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) support. This work will build upon similar efforts undertaken under, and explore synergies with current COSME cluster activities (Cluster Excellence and Cluster Internationalisation Programmes for SMEs), Horizon 2020-related Industrial Leadership section (Innovation in SMEs – INNOSUP-2015-1 ‘Cluster facilitated projects for new industrial value chains’) as well as previous cluster related actions in CIP-Competiveness and Innovation Programme. A strategic action plan for 2016-2020 will be developed during 2015 in order to achieve the policy focus set forth in the policy area. The main activity will be to initiate dialogue with the EU Member States and stakeholder in three different areas, research & innovation, entrepreneurship, digital market with attractiveness of talent and investments. These working groups will contribute to mobilize actors and train policy people in transnational cooperation. A main activity is to develop and implement an effect logic and monitoring system for measuring added value of transnational cooperation in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship. High quality flagships and involvement of companies, researcher and public stakeholders are important. The focus theme 2015-2016 for the policy area will be information and communications technology (ICT) development and enhancing a digital single market, where priority will be set to identify and promote removal of remaining unjustified barriers to the cross-border provision of services & applications, digital networks & ubiquitous access to high-speed connectivity, as well as e-skills & demand stimulation of research centres/universities, businesses or citizens. Directory: regional policy -> sources -> docoffic -> official -> communic -> baltic baltic -> Commission staff working document regional policy -> The contribution of regional and local authorities to economic development baltic -> Commission staff working document Download 0.86 Mb. Share with your friends:
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