How to develop a RIS3 & Finance the Silver Economy? Lessons learned by Aquitaine

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1 How to develop a RIS3 & Finance the Silver Economy? Lessons learned by Aquitaine Hervé LE GUYADER Innovative Financing, Opportunities for Active & Healthy Ageing Brussels, 3 June 2015

2 Structure of the presentation How did we build our RIS3? Regional background, Basic facts, basic questions, Methodology, Selection of a first set of specialisation areas. But what about Silver Economy? Not, per se, part of RIS3 but Where we stand today. Questions and challenges ahead

3 Regional background km² 3.2 M people 5 départements 2295 communes

4 A fairly diversified economy with some performing areas Agri-food - Wines #1 World Region for wine growing #1 French Region for agricultural and food production Forest-Wood-Paper #1 cultivated forest in Europe #1 French Region for wood/paper/furniture Agricultural sector #1 European production Region for corn #2 agricultural French Region Chemical and advanced materials #1 French Region for risk classified factories Gliding #1 European Region Health #1 French Region française for health ICT Thermal cures #1 French thermal cures Region Optical-Photonics #1 French Region for science infrastructures Renewable energies #2 French ressource for biomass electricity Sciences of earth and oil industries #2 French ressource for earth energy Aeronautics-Space and Defense #3 French aeronautical Region Construction building #4 French Region Sea industries #4 French Region ICT #4 French Region for ICT services Tourism #5 French Region Gastronomy, traditions et well living World immaterial heritage label Industry jobs Agriculture jobs Tourism jobs Seasonal jobs Agri-food jobs

5 Innovation Regional performance

6 Basic facts (RIS3 related) Fact #1: ESIF is something important for Regions Fact #2: ERDF, within ESIF, is something quite important Fact #3: programming period rules are different from previous ones Fact #4: Concentration shall apply: 1. Within the set of T.O. s 2. And, for T.O. 1 and T.O. 2, with an ex ante condition: RIS3 Fact #5: RIS3 comes with its set of binding rules

7 Basic questions we asked ourselves #1: How to understand this RIS3 «new thing»? #2: How to cope with the «We ve been doing this all along, so why should we change anything» syndrome? #3: Should we delegate this? #4: How can we go through the RIS3 process and produce the expected deliverable? #5: How to ensure it will be sustainable ( )? #6: Is there anything missing in the RIS3 doctrine, that we could, and should, improve on?

8 Methodology Question#1: How to «best» understand what s requested? IPTS S3 Platform in Sevilla National guide Expert (founding father)

9 Question#2: How to cope with the «We ve been doing this all along, so why change anything» syndrome?

10 Question#2: How to cope with the «We ve been doing this all along, so why change anything» syndrome? And the answer is: Just follow the instructions!

11 Targetted questionnaire sent to > 800 targetted individuals > 60 meetings, from high end presentation given to key regional politicians, to detailled oriented technical fine tuning

12 Question#3: Should we delegate this? (Fact #1: ESIF is something thing (for Regions) Fact #2: Within ESIF, ERDF is something quite important) Fact #n: in 2014, French Regional councils became ERDF managing authorities so, we felt like we should be doing this ourselves! Project team (~20) Steering Committee (10) Experts (~50) BIG INVESTMENT!

13 Question#4: How can we go through the S3 process and produce the expected deliverable? Political will, Strong partnership/governance (Region, State representatives, Regional and National agencies), Dedicated resources (staff), Clear scheduling, transparency with stakeholders, (EC FP, H2020 style) Project Management! And a «customised toolkit»

14 Question#4: How can we go through the S3 process and produce the expected deliverable? Toolkit: The «Seven C s grid», built upon the «4 C» proposed by EC

15 Question#4: How can we go through the S3 process and produce the expected deliverable? Toolkit: A «techno/market 51x47 matrix», built upon EU (KETs), national and regional studies

16 Question#5: How to ensure this will be sustainable? 1. Partnership, at the institutional level (Governance) 2. Entrepreneurial discovery, empowerment of noninstitutional stakeholders 3. Specific effort made on defining objectives and setting «realistic» indicators, allowing for in itinere evaluation 4. In itinere evaluation of the performance of selected specialisation areas, with possible eviction of «underperforming» candidates and/or selection of a new area.

17 A «TOOLKIT ENABLED» VIRTUOUS CIRCLE 1- Transparent selection criteria The 7C s Grid 2- Suggested S3 area already pre-evaluated by the proposer (questionnaire) Self-selection by the stakeholder 4- Targetting Choice of S3 areas Steering Committee Entrepreneurial discovery 2 to 4 years cycles 800 questionnaires 70 answers 250 potential areas 7C filter 3- Identify concentrations => specialisations Techno/markets grid 51x47 Fine tuning (tech WG) Set of potential specialisation areas

18 Question#5: How to ensure this will be sustainable? Do the «clean-and-jerk»

19 Selection of a first set of specialisation areas, including «AHA friendly» ones but no «Silver economy»!

20 Why??? Because: We followed the instructions!

21 Bottom line no EDP generated «Silver economy» area of specialisation came out of this And yet (regional trends) In ~ 15 years

22 And yet (national trends)

23 With a dual consequence 100% In terms of age of the resulting population 90% 80% 27,2 28,2 24,1 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 50,3 49,6 51,5 > 60 ans ans < 20 ans 20% 10% 0% 22,5 22,2 24,4 Aquitaine Aquitaine+ Limousin+Poitou Charentes France Métro Source: Insee, estimations de population In terms of density of population (the urban vs. rural issue) Aquitaine Limousin Poitou-Charentes France métro. Aquitaine + Poitou Charentes + Limousin 80,0 43,7 69,4 117,0 69,4 (people per sq. km)

24 We So, But (we know also know) innovation digital know we innovation technical have can a help problem, innovation can help won t suffice We also know the «knowledge triangle» won t suffice Introducing the knowledge pyramid

25 We also know about the magnitude of the budget needed, hence the need to optimise mapping of and navigation through all possible funding instruments RIS3 Fonds structurels FEDER (OT 3 ) OT1 hors thématiques S3, FSE Initiatives technologiques conjointes (Clean Sky, IMI) Appels à projets LIFE Appels à projets COSME HORIZON 2020 Projets collaboratifs transnationaux Aides R&D et innovation Aides à l innovation BPI France Appels à projets ANR Pôles de Compétitivité FUI Projets collaboratifs Projets individuels Aides des collectivités infrarégionales Programme d Investissement d Avenir Appels à projets ADEME

26 Where we stand today (re: Silver economy) What we have: ehealth «friendly» RIS3 priorities A very dynamic and growing ehealth Cluster A highly visible «Silver Economie» regional policy An on-going Call for Expression of Interest (Silver Economie) A growing and imminent issue

27 Where we stand today What this all brings: Political vision & visibility A better, global understanding of the issue to address A good «Pilot generating system» What we don t have: A coordinated response (governance & thematic) Funding commensurate with the issue at hand

28 Questions and challenges ahead Well, on top of everything else ( ) financing Silver economy epitomizes RIS3 s trickiest issue (IMHO) Synergy!!!

29 From S2E

30 To StairwayS to ExcellenceS

31 To reach the objective Thanks for your attention Hervé Le Guyader, Conseil Régional d Aquitaine