RIS3 as a tool to promote transnational cooperation in innovation

1. Francesco Molinari, mail@francescomolinari.it RIS3 as a tool to promote transnational cooperation in innovation • MED JOINT CAPITALISATION CONFERENCE • 2nd April 2014 • Chamber of Commerce and Industry Marseille Provence

2. The “Third Globalisation” • First wave: Markets • Increasing openness and “thickness” due to Free Trade reforms • Second round: Manufacturing sites • Geographical redistribution of production places where the cost of labour (and living) is lower • Third round: (Segments of) Value Chains • Geographical redistribution of (some of the) corporate activities that, taken together, concur to a product/service design, assembly, consumption and disposal or recycling. Francesco Molinari

3. Example (1) Francesco Molinari

4. Example (2) Francesco Molinari

5. Example (3) Source: Carlo Gianelle Francesco Molinari

6. Notable Dynamics • Functional integration Vs. disintegration • Example: a firm creates / dismisses an internal design team • Stability (or persistence) of business relations • Example: a firm joins / leaves a network of OEM’s or subcontractors • Multiple value chains • Example: Forestry  Furniture, Forestry  Pulp & Paper • Sectorial diversification • More often driven by product, rather than process, innovation Francesco Molinari

7. Detectable Value Streams Export Revenues Intra-region Purchases “Globalized” firms Local SMEs • Instruments: • Free Trade • Public Procurement Internal Demand (including from PA) “Foreign” firms Administrative border of a Region Francesco Molinari

8. Looking for impact Source: Stefano Casini Benvenuti Francesco Molinari

9. Looking for connections Source: Emanuele Fabbri Francesco Molinari

10. Looking for connections (2) Francesco Molinari

11. Looking for complementarities Source: Invitalia Francesco Molinari

12. Limits of Local Knowledge • “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it” • Attributed to Albert Einstein • Knowledge is no longer localised (if it ever was) geographically and sectorially, but diffused and distributed across actors and territories • The issue is not that much of accessing it, but giving order, sense, logic to available information • A coordination problem that adds to Entrepreneurial Discovery • In the sense of Foray Francesco Molinari

13. Detectable (?) K-Flows Source: Bathelt 2002 Francesco Molinari

14. Impacts (1) Spurce: MET 2012 Francesco Molinari

15. Impacts (2) International cooperation is conducive to all kinds of innovation… …BUT cooperation with competitors can significantly harm entrepreneurial capacity to innovate …BUT regional / national cooperation has little or no effect, esp. on DUL • Conclusions: • 1) Excessive territorial proximity may be detrimental to innovation • 2) Heterogeneity of industrial agents is important ALL types of interaction matter… Francesco Molinari

16. Increasing role for ETC • Experimentation space for Macro-Regional Strategies • Danube, Adriatic-Ionian • Transnational dimension of Blue Growth • Especially relevant to MED Space • New links with ENPI and Sea Basin policies • Extending scope and relevance • Spatial dimension of Territorial Cohesion • Bringing ESPON into action • And more…  Framework for «outward looking» policies in the RIS3context Francesco Molinari

17. Triple loop learning Policies Programmes Projects Results Single Loop Learning “How to do things right” Double Loop Learning “How to do the right things” Triple Loop Learning “How to decide what is right” Indicators Francesco Molinari

18. Difficulties faced • Lack of recognition of ETC as a strategic, relevant and exploitable contribution to RIS3 • “Silo” effect of organization in most regions • Too little money, too fine granularity of experience to be relevant • Tight time-scales of RIS3, little possibility to pay attention • Barriers to contributing to broader challenges • Policy discontinuity from programme to programme • Lack of capitalization, integration of results • Capacity building of policy makers • Need of integrating the private sector Francesco Molinari

19. Case in point • CreativeMED shows how Territorial Cooperation can bring added-value to Regional Innovation Policies by not only sharing and transferring good practices but also exchanging and integrating support resources and infrastructures trans-locally • CreativeMED shows how field-based experience, conclusions and best practices of pilot projects can be transformed through an integrated model that can guide broader and/or higher-impact policy processes and choices Francesco Molinari

20. Open Issues • Links between emergent bottom-up macro-regional strategies and top-down definitions • Openness vs coordination • Platforms for sustainability of policy learning and innovation processes • Long term support to social and institutional innovation • Applicability of CreativeMED model to other TN-ETC geographical areas • Cultural framing of macro-regional models • Towards a Europe of multiple roads to innovation Francesco Molinari

21. Thank you for your attention Francesco Molinari Municipality of Prato mail@francescomolinari.it Francesco Molinari