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Bioeconomy in FlandersPolicy aspects

ERRIN BIOECONOMY WG 19 JUNE 2017

Contents

1. Region of Flanders in figures

2. Bioeconomy and circular economy policy

3. Cluster policy and smart specialisation

4. Other European collaboration

Economy and InnovationScience

Institutional set-up of Belgium

Flanders

Flanders: some key figures

Antwerpen 28%

Vlaams-Brabant 17%

West-Vlaanderen 18%

Oost-Vlaanderen 23%

Limburg 14%

Population of Flanders (6 444 127 inh.) by provinceSource: National Statistics Institute 2015 (1/1/2015)

Key data R&D and innovation

➢ GDP: € 229.9 billion (2013) (= 58% of Belgian GDP, € 395.3 billion)

➢ Global Expend. R&D (GERD) : € 5.8 billion (2013) (= 61% of Belgian GERD, € 9.6 billion)

➢ R&D intensity (% GERD / GDP): 2.54% of which 69% by private sector

➢ GDP (PPP)/capita: € 32,800

➢ R&D personnel: 41,806 FTE

➢ degree of innovative companies (4 categories of innovation): 56%

➢ patents per million inhabitants: 230.50

Allocation of Belgian public R&D budgets according to authority (2015 initial budgets)

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Belgian total public R&D budget: allocated initial budget for 2015: € 2.569,91 billion(no EU/international budgets included) source: Programmatory Public Service (federal) Science Policy

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B IO-ECONOMY AND C IRCULAR ECONOMY IN FLANDERS

Flanders’ vision and strategy on thebioeconomy

Interdepartmental Working Group on Bioeconomystarted in 2012

Annual report to the Flemish Government

Exchange of information and consolidation acrossseveral policy domains: R&I, agriculture, environment, energy, education, investment

Strategy and first action plan in 2013; now in revision

Link with circular economy and renewable energy policies, on regional and European level

Bio-economy strategy: 5 strategicgoals

Policy coherenceStrength in Research and Innovation, andEducationSustainable production and use of biomassCompetitive bio-economy sectors and marketsEuropean and international cooperation

Government of FlandersA long term strategy for the future

Seven transition priorities

1. Circular Economy

2. Smart living

3. Industry 4.0

4. Lifelong learning and a dynamic professional career

5. Healthcare and welfare

6. Transport and mobility

7. Energy

Transition Circular Economy

“Circular Flanders”

Ministers Joke Schauvliege (Environment) & Philippe Muyters(Employment, Economy, Innovation and Sports) Transition manager Jiska Verhulst (OVAM)Strategy approved VR 24 February 2017

The development of a competitive bioeconomyproducing biomass in a sustainable way and(re)using side and end streams for food andfeed, materials, products and energy is explicitlyincluded

Transition Circular Economy

“Circular Flanders”: Ministers Joke Schauvliege (Environment) & Philippe Muyters(Employment, Economy, Innovation and Sports)

Transition manager Jiska Verhulst (OVAM)

Public-Private Steering Group -> chair of InterdepartmentalWorking Group on Bioeconomy is a member

Project groups -> Interdepartmental Working Group on Bioeconomy => project group bioeconomy

Policy research center on ‘Sustainable management in a circulareconomy’

Circular Economy strategy: building on Materials

Management Programme 2012-2016

New within circular economy (2017-….) compared toprevious materials management programme

Biomass – Water – Energy – Food

New approach: roadmaps 2017-2022

Supply driven priorities: circular public procurement (green deals), circular cities and circular entrepreneurship

Demand driven support: For partners and stakeholdersthrough Communication and Community building

Policy oriented research through “SuMMa+”Sustainable materials management in a circular economy

Policy research center SuMMa+ Sustainable materials management in a circular economy

To monitor, stimulate and contextualise the progress of theFlemish region towards a circular economy with minimal useof materials, energy and space and minimizing the impact on the environment

Period 2017-2021, building on the results of the former policy research center on sustainable materials management SuMMa (2012-2016)

Financed by 2 ministers to link the policy domains of environment, economy, research and innovation

Bioeconomy related requests for research put forward fromthe Interdepartmental Working Group for the Bioeconomy

New Cluster Policy (2016)

Spearhead clusters Innovative business networks

• Cluster organisation as facilitator

• Removal of obstacles for growth

• Activities along the innovation spectrum (all TRL-levels)

Strategic domains (+/- 5) Bottom up (+/- 15)

Ambitious, Top down Smaller scale

Long term vision (10 year) – monitoring Short term results (3 year)

Triple Helix (comp, KI, gov) All relevant actors, focus on businesses

ContractMax 10y ; max 500 k€/y funding

Contract based on action plan up to 3y max 150 k€/y funding

50% private investment

5 clusters currently approved 14 IBNs approved

Cluster Policy and Smart Specialization (1)

2016: spearhead clusters (VLAIO): strategic andcompetitive domain, triple-helix, long term strategy

Logistics, materials, energy,

AND …

Spearhead cluster CATALISTI: FISCH (Flanders InnovationHub for Sustainable Chemistry) combined withFlanders’Plastic Vision

Spearhead cluster Flanders’ Food for agri-foodindustry

Companies

Knowled

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Government

Strategic sectors for the biobasedindustries:

chemistry, plastics and life sciences (2015): 42 billion euro turnover, 59.500 jobs (+ 100.000 indirect jobs), 1,6 billion R&D; 11 billion GVA (30 % of total industry) 1.6 billion for R&D; 20 billion export surplus

Agri-food industry (2014): 60 billion euro turnover; 145.500 jobs; GVA 8,2 billion euro

Others: pharma, energy

Harbors: Antwerpen chemistry, Gent Biobased cluster

Importance of harbors

From lab to industrial environment:

o Process development & optimisation: proof op concept, opex, capex, LCA

o Upscaling mg to g, kg, ton scale: prototypes for product & market validation

o First series production: Market development

Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant:

o Multi-purpose pilot facility in the Port of Ghent (B)

o Bio-Based products & processes

o Current number of employees: 50

o Independent non-for-profit SME

Investment in infrastructure (ERDF)

o Interreg VL-NL 2008-2013: 13 m€

o Interreg NWE 2013-2015: 1,35m€

o ERDF 2015-2015: 1,26m€

o Interreg VL-NL BioHarT: 0,2mio€

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CATALISTI MEMBERS

Cluster Policy and Smart Specialization (2)Vanguard Initiative: co-operation between regions

Pilot ‘Bioeconomy’: 7 cases of which two are co-ordinated by Flemish partner: biobased aromatics (VITO, Ludo Diels) en (waste) gas into value: (FBBV, Sofie Dobbelaere) Flanders is also partner in demo cases Lignocellulose Refinery, Bio Aviation Fuel, and Food & Feed from Agrofood Waste

• MoU with BIC Bio Industries Consortium (June 2016)

-> March 2017: decision on foundation of V.I. as a not-for-profit organization under Belgian law, members to pay fees

Vanguard InitiativeBioeconomy pilot

Partner regions:

Lombardy (Ita),Randstad (NL), Scotland (UK), Wales (UK), Skåne (Swe), Värmland (Swe), Ostrobothnia (Fin), Central Finland (Fin), Flanders (Bel), Wallonia (Bel), Nordrhein-Westfalia (Ger), Brandenburg (Ger), Baden-Württemberg (Ger), Malopolska (Pol), Basilicata (Ita), Emilia-Romagna (Ita), Navarra (Spa), Asturias (Spa), Upper Austria (Aus), South Netherlands (NL), East Netherlands (NL)

Other European collaborationSustainable chemistry and biobased economy

BIG-C : Flanders, Netherlands en North Rhine Westfalia BioInnovation Growth mega ClusterBiorizon: Flemish-Dutch research center for technologydevelopment for biobased aromaticsHorizon 2020 - Societal Challenge2 including BiobasedIndustries Joint Undertaking (3,8 billion euro); Industrial Leadership

Interreg projects cofinanced by Flanders (VLAIO) Flanders-Netherlands

Biobase Europe Pilot Plant (BBEPP)

North West Europe: Smart pilots (dept. EWI is partner, BBEPP co-ordinator): policy related project to support use and impact of ‘shared pilot facilities’ : BE-Fl, UK, FI, DE, NL, FR, IT

Contact

Monika SormannDepartment of Economy, Science and Innovation

www. vlaanderen.be-

www.flanders.be-

http://www.ewi-vlaanderen.be/wat-doet-ewi/ondernemende-economie/bio-economie

a) EWI = Economy, Science and Innovation policy domain; OV = Education and Training policy domain

b) budget from Federal authority & EU FP7/H2020: based on past average annual € for VLA research institutes

c) budget from ERDF: based on an estimated 40% that is allocated for R&D&I in the total ERDF budget that

Flanders is entitled to receive from the 2014-2020 EU Regional Policy budget

Public R&D&I budget /yr in Flanders: € 2.7b

Annex5: Participation in EU FP7 on RTD

Number of

participa-

tions

%

Number of

partici-

pants

Number of

projects

Number of

coordina-

tors

% Funding

(€ million)% Return (%)

Flanders 2,884 53% 490 2,232 518 18% 1,125 62% 2.50%

Brussels 1,640 30% 479 1,235 196 12% 353.2 19% 0.79%

Wallonia 908 17% 163 765 151 16.6% 327.4 18% 0.73%

Unassigned 26 0% 12 26 0 0% 9.3 1% 0.02%

TOTAL

(Belgium) 5,458 100% 1,144 3,652 865 15.8% 1,814.9 100% 4.04%

Top-10 participants FlandersNumber of

participations

Funding

(€ million)

Catholic University of Leuven, KU Leuven 545 263.0

Ghent University, UGent 261 112.6

Interuniversity micro-electronics centre, Imec 182 107.4

Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, VIB 108 67.2

University of Antwerp, UA 124 65.0

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, VUB 117 51.4

Flemish institute for technological research, VITO 119 47.6

iMinds 71 32.8

Belgian nuclear research centre, SCK 61 21.2

Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI) 41 16.1

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ANNEX6: FP7 RTD: BUDGET / DOMAIN FOR FLEMISH INST.