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Smart Specialisation Strategies implementation: Priorities, Related Policies and Impact Assessment

General Information

Organised by the Smart Specialisation Platform, this working meeting gathered a selected number of experts to reflect on current developments and share views and experience in the realm of S3 implementation, tackling the following points:

1) Stocktaking of national/regional priorities and linkages with policy measures implemented/planned on their basis.

Will the national/regional priorities be revised to refine the S3 strategy and/or to adapt to new market conditions and the global context?
How does consistency/coherence is being assessed? What data collection methods are being used? What is the role/involvement of regional stakeholders in the process?
What complementary policy measures may need to be contemplated (policy roadmapping) in order to boost the impact of S3?
What do you see as important critical junctures on the road ahead?

2) How does your country/region plan/propose to assess the impact of S3 (beyond checking the levels of output/indicators proposed)?

For instance, changes in terms of funding decisions, or in terms of policymakers' and stakeholders' behaviour?
And more broadly and importantly, towards the regional economic transformation that S3 is promoting?

The report from the working meeting is now availble.

Agenda and Presentations

Draft agenda

8:40-9:00	Registration and Welcome coffee
9:00-9:15	Opening by Manuel Palazuelos, Project Leader of the Smart Specialisation Platform, Territorial Development Unit of EC Joint Research Centre Foreword by Dimitrios Kyriakou and Caroline Cohen, Members of the S3 Platform
9:15-11:00	Presentation by experts on a given topic (5 minutes each) José Carlos Caldeira, Board Member, INESC TEC, Portugal. "The challenges of intermediary (short term) evaluation of long term strategies and action plans", and initial reflections. Emanuele Fabbri, PhD, Planning and Evaluation Head Officer, Managing Authority for the ERDF ROP, Tuscany Region, Italy initial reflections and RIS3 in Tuscany and Impact Assessment Luc Hulsman, Programme manager, Northern Netherlands Alliance. S3 Implementation in N-NLs: Policy Instruments Päivi Ekdahl, Development director at the Regional Council of Lapland, Finland. Revision of S3 priorities, consistency/coherence Agatha Filimon, Communication Expert, RIS3 Management Office, North-East Regional Development Agency, Romania Maria Kassotaki, Head of the Managing Authority of Crete Region, Greece. The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Observatory. Analysis of the next RIS3 generation. Christine Loussert, Project manager, Europe and Mediterranean Cooperation Directorate, Région Sud Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur, France. Revision of S3 priorities Dr Beata Lubos, Deputy Director, accompanied by Justyna Gorzoch, Chief Expert, Innovation Department, Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Technology, Poland. Boosting the impact of S3 - Constant revision and improvements - Role of monitoring bodies Gregorio Muñoz-Abad, Deputy Commissioner for Science & Technology, Regional Government of Castilla y León, Spain. Implementing S3: Priorities, Related Policies and Impact Assessment in Castilla y Leon. Antal Nikodemus, Head of the Department for Knowledge Economy and R&D of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology, accompanied by Dr. István Szabo, Vice President of the National Research Development and Innovation Office, Hungary. Refining S3 priorities, digitalisation of the economy and related policy measures Tihomira Marinova Palova, Acting Head of "Innovation and entrepreneurship" Department, Ministry of economy of the Republic of Bulgaria Anders Olsson, Manager of Research and Innovation for Region Värmland, Sweden. Preparatory work and Approach to RIS3 and Impact Assessment Ramojus Reimeris, Acting director of Research and Higher Education monitoring centre (MOSTA), Lithuania. S3 Implementation and Impact Assessment Carmen Sillero Illanes, Head of Division for Strategy and Programmes, accompanied by María Angeles Ruiz Ruiz, Policy Officer, Division for Strategy and Programmes. IDEA Agency, Andalusian Ministry of Economy, Knowledge, Enterprises and University. S3 Coherence and Consistency Mag. (FH) Simone Weiß, BSc, Head of Internationalisation of the Regional Development Agency of Salzburg Region, Austria
11:00-11:30	Coffee break
11:30-13:00	S3 Impact assessment Participants were divided in 3 groups. Two of them discussd about "Patterns reflecting national/regional economic transformation" One group reflected on "Behavioural changes regarding policy-makers, stakeholders and beneficiaries"
13:00-14:00	Lunch break
14:00-15:30	Stocktaking of national/regional priorities and linkages with policy measures implemented/planned on their basis Participants were divided in 3 groups, tackling the following issues: Revisiting/Refining Priorities Coherence/Consistency, policy road mapping assessment, involvement of stakeholders, complementary policy measures to boost the impact of S3 Critical junctures on teh road ahead
15:30-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-17:00	Final reflections and suggested topics for future discussion

Venue

Joint Research Centre, Seville site

Registration information

Participation is by invitation only