REGIONS AND INNOVATION: COLLABORATING ACROSS BORDERS XIV All-Russian Forum «Strategic Planning in the Regions and Cities of Russia» St Petersburg, 19 October 2015 Bill Tompson, Senior Counsellor & Deputy Head Regional Development Policy Division [email protected]
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REGIONS AND INNOVATION: COLLABORATING ACROSS BORDERS
XIV All-Russian Forum «Strategic Planning in the Regions and Cities of Russia» St Petersburg, 19 October 2015 Bill Tompson, Senior Counsellor & Deputy Head Regional Development Policy Division [email protected]
Innovation trends call for international collaboration
strategies
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Innovation-related collaboration increasingly global
International scientific co-publications tripling from 7% to 22% over 20 years. The share of regional co-patents with foreign inventors has doubled from 10% to 20% over 30 years.
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Single authorSource: OECD (2010), Measuring Innovation: A New Perspective, OECD Publishing, http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264059474-en.
International scientific production
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Foreign value-added content of exports by country As a percent of total exports 1995 and 2009
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OECD-WTO: Statistics on Trade in Value Added, (database), doi: 10.1787/data-00648-en
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Location of co-patenting partner
But proximity still plays an important role in collaboration
Over 33% of R&D in the top 10% of large regions; 58% of patents in the top 10% of small regions
Spatial decay (150-200 km); neighbourhood effects; “cost” of the border increasing over time
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Source: OECD (2013), OECD Regions at a Glance, OECD Publishing,.
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OECD (2011) Regions and Innovation Policy, OECD Publishing, Paris based on Benneworth, P. and A. Dassen (2012), Strengthening Global-Regional Connectivity in Regional Innovation Strategies, Regional Development Working Papers, OECD Publishing, Paris.
Internal and international innovation system linkages to influence strategy
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Type of regional innovation system (RIS)
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Innovation policy to consider actors operating at different geographic scales
Advisory services to spin-off and knowledge-intensive start-ups
Joint university or other higher education programmes
Other technology transfer centres and extension programmes
Talent attraction and retention or mobility schemes
Cross-border labour market measures Science and technology parks and innovation networks
Other instruments
Cross-border science and technology parks Financing (venture capital funds or angel networks)
Cluster or network initiatives Public procurement/ border as a source of innovation/ innovation awards St Petersburg, XIV All-Russian Forum 13 19 Oct 2015
Ease of using cross-border instruments (Based on case study examples)
Easiest to implement
Attempts to allow funds from one country go to another (rare exceptions)
Certain innovation projects in highly regulated sectors (health, energy) • Albeit often those areas
have greatest potential for using border as source of innovation
International branding efforts often caught up in political sensibilities
Mixed results Most challenges observed
Cross-border linkages of firms with providers (e.g., innovation vouchers) Cluster-related support for areas of common competencies
Joint prioritised research
Access to shared S&T parks, scientific installations, joint centres
Broad-based university collaborations • researchers look for
excellence over proximity
• students need right framework conditions (diploma recognition, financing, etc.)
Firm networking and matchmaking; leading to collaboration?
Cross-border cluster initiatives
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