Building upon Regional Smart Specialisation and Interregional Cooperation Along Value Chains Jena, 11 Nov. 2016 Valentina PINNA Lombardy Region Vanguard Coordination Group

What is the Vanguard Initiative? Smart Specialisation as coordination principle Alliance of 30 EU regions striving for industrial modernisation, competitiveness and internationalisation of European value chains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h5I6vvrkZY

What is the Vanguard Initiative? A political initiative of European regions applying smart specialisation as a strategic coordination principle in EU Innovation and Industrial Policy to promote new growth based on bottom-up regional dynamics. A framework for collaboration with the EC, mapping cooperation potential of regional eco-systems , matching partners, co-investing in demonstrators and pilots for emerging and transforming industries (Smart Specialisation Platforms). A methodology to leverage the entrepreneurial dynamics of regional partnerships and clusters by combining support instruments at all policy levels (Multilevel Synergies).

MEMBERS Asturias Baden-Württemberg Basque Country Cantabria Catalonia Dalarna East-Netherlands Emilia-Romagna Flanders Galicia Ile-de-France Lombardy Malopolska Navarra Nord-Pas de Calais Norte North Rhine-Westphalia Pays de la loire Ostrobothnia Randstad Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Saxony Scotland Skåne South-Denmark South-Netherlands Tampere Region Upper Austria Wales Wallonia

Smart Specialisation on the European Agenda “…. the Commission proposes to Member States to combine regional and industrial policy tools to create Smart Specialisation Platforms to help regions roll out smart specialisation programmes by facilitating contacts between firms and clusters, enabling access to the innovative technologies and market opportunities.” EC Communication ‘For a European Industrial Renaissance’, 22 January 2014 “ … smart specialisation should be promoted at all levels, including through the efficient use of public investment in research. This will facilitate contacts between firms and clusters and improve access to innovative technologies.” Conclusions of the European Council, 20 - 21 March 2014 Mainstreaming of smart specialisation as key principle for efficient and effective innovation and industrial policies, facilitated by interregional cooperation.

The political commitment Engagement for a European Industrial Rennaissance Letter to the Council Jan. 2014 The Milan Declaration Nov. 2014

Key features of the Vanguard Initiative Strong political commitment and ambition Interregional cooperation based on S3 Multilevel: collaboration between regional authorities, clusters, business, knowledge institutes Speed up the market uptake of innovative technologies/ solutions Exploring and facilitating Public-Private investment and co-funding possibilities Structured dialogue with EU institutions Bottom up

Vanguard cooperation framework Interregional cooperation with a strong operational orientation Brussels based coordination of the network Clusters and PPP Smart Specialisation Platform on Industry Modernisation

Vanguard core activities: the Pilots Currently 5 thematic pilots: Nano-enabled products, Efficient and Sustainable Manufacturing, 3D-Printing, ADMA for Energy related applications in harsh environments Bioeconomy Challenge driven or technology driven pilot

Features of the Pilot Projects What: To explore opportunities for developing interregional joint-demonstration and co investment Why: to accelerate industrial uptake of innovative solutions and market development for existing and emerging industries with competitive and value added products How: Developing concrete demo cases within the pilots Who: Clusters, mobilising companies and knowledge institutes Validation criteria for democases: - Demonstration projects (>TRL 5) - Business involvement - European dimension of the value chain - Added-value of joint demonstration

Vanguard Initiative methodology Launch of new ventures / start - ups New value chains to bring research results to the market TRL 9 COMMERCIALISE UPSCALE Networked demonstration (Joint Demonstration Initiatives) Pilot lines and first of a kind factories TRL 6 – 7 - 8 DEMONSTRATE Matching events for complementary partners Project development for new value chains CONNECT Scoping paper (common vision and methodology) Identifying lead regions Mapping questionnaire (potential/gaps) Identifying lead-actors (capability, capacity, opportunity) LEARN

Five Pilots and multiple democases Pilot Project Lead Regions Democases 1 BIO - economy Interregional cooperation on innovative use of non - food biomass Lombardy Randstad/ South Holland Region Biobased aromatics Lignocellulose refinery: European value chains for second-generation sugar and lignin Turning (waste) gas into value Biogas beyond energy Aviation biofuel High value food and feed from agro-food waste 2 Efficient and Sustainable Manufacturing (ESM) Catalonia De- and Remanufacturing Adaptive & intelligent Manufacturing Advanced surface & coating Manufacturing Digital and Virtual Manufacturing Energy and Environmentally Efficient Manufacturing

Pilot and demo cases Pilot Project Lead regions Democases 3 High performance production through 3D-printing Flanders Norte South-Netherlands Multi-materials components by hybrid 3D-printing manufacturing. Metal products 3D-Printing for automotive components, tools and moulds for large (>2500 mm), medium and small complex parts Machine, tooling and complex parts Additive subtractive high precision & high finish pilot production hubs. Customised consumer goods in creative industries Adding a dimension to 2D-printed textiles 3D-printing in health-care 3D-printed smart bike

Pilot and demo cases Pilot Project Lead regions Democases 4 Advanced Manufacturing for energy applications in harsh environments Basque Country Scotland Real condition testing of new materials for offshore Cost-effective power transfer Optimised corrosion management, including modelling, sensing and design

Pilots and Demo cases 5 Pilot Project Lead regions Democases New Nano – Enabled Products Skåne Tampere Nano wires for ICT and energy applications Manufacturing nano-enabled microsystems Medtech Printed nano-electronics: integrated energy harvesting/ cross-technology application platform Industrial pilot production of nanomaterials establishing new value chains

Vanguard Initiative: exemple from ESM Pilot Process toward business planning & investment

27 demo cases at different maturity level Differtent Maturity Level in Demo cases LEARN CONNECT DEMONSTRATE COMMERCIALISE 5 pilots: 27 demo cases at different maturity level 3D-printing UPSCALE Bio-economy ADMA-Energy 2 Demo cases developed a business plan and started the dialogue with the EIB Nano- technology ESM

EXEMPLE from ESM Pilot: Application Domain De - Re Manufacturing The main goal of the pilot is to integrate a multidisciplinary set of advanced and innovative enabling technologies using regional smart specialization. Specific objective: to offer demo services to European end-users (mainly manufacturing companies) in order to solve specific sustainability- oriented problems related to their products or processes.

Geographic Configuration and Regional Specialization within the demo case Mechanical remanufacturing and in-use product monitoring in the automotive industry. Laser-based remanufacturing of the mechanical parts in large machinery. Tampere Tampere Tampere Scotland Scotland Re-use of composites by thermal processes from aeronautic sector and wind energy system. Recovery and re-use of metal scrap by plasma process. Re-production of steel sheets by Hydroforming and CNC-bulk metal forming. Norte Saxony Saxony Basque Country Lombardy Saxony Basque Country Lombardy Sustainable demanufacturing processes including human-robot cooperation for disassembly, electronics remanufacturing, key-metals and composite recovery and re-use by mechanical processes, for the automotive and electronics industry. Norte Robotics handling systems supporting disassembly and reassembly operations in the automotive industry Norte Scotland Vanguard Pilot Network on De- and Remanufacturing

Parameters of the business model A detailed analysis of identified Sectorial Use Cases, with industrial associated partners and several regions involved. For each specific Use Case, a business case has been detailed including a business plan for the industrial uptake of the developed solutions. Regional/Cross-Regional Use Case Involved Regions Composite Recovery from Wind Energy System Basque Countries, Saxony, Lombardy, Tampere Heavy machinery components remanufacturing Tampere, Basque Countries, Lombardy, Saxony Automotive parts remanufacturing Scotland, Lombardy, Saxony, Norte High-value TLC systems and Electronics Recovery Lombardy, Tampere Metal components reprocessing Saxony, Tampere, Lombardy Remanufacturing of e-motors Saxony, Lombardy, Norte

Business Model of the Pilot Network Procedure for Business Model development

Business Model of the Pilot Network This pilot network is designed to be a “generator” of new industrial pilots for European circular economy solutions.

Vanguard pilots contribution to the KETs agenda Demonstrators and pilot lines address Advanced Manufacturing Technologies and other cross-cutting KETs. They contribute to overcome the Valley of death Technology push: Demonstrators will be built based on research capabilities and results Market pull: Demonstrators will be driven by industry and market applications Vanguard demonstrators and pilot lines

Vanguard Initiative structure and governance Political level Operational level Leading by example Structured dialogue with EC and JRC Annual Meetings of Political leaders (Brussels, Jan 2014 – Milan, Nov 2015, Brussels, Feb 2016) Innovation Policy Directors Meetings (Skane Spring2014, Edinburgh, Autumn 2015, Brussels, Nov. 2016) Reg. Representatives (30 regions) Coordination Group (5 regions) Chair Secretariat Task Groups: - Policy Influencing - Funding synergies.. Vanguard Pilot Monitoring -   Pilot SSP + Pilot projects & Demo cases Regional Public Private Partnerships / Cluster platforms Companies and innovation actors in the regions Engaging: Policy Officers Experts Lead-companies   S3 Platform on Industrial Modernisation

Vanguard Initiative: pilot structure and governance Demo Case Concrete Business Plans Structured dialogue with EC , JRC, EIB 2-3 Leading Regions Demo Case leaders Steering Group - Meetings at demo case level - Plenary Meetings at pilot level   Thematic Smart Specialisation Platforms Regional Public Private Partnerships / Cluster platforms Companies and innovation actors in the regions Engaging: Policy Officers Experts Lead-companies     S3 Platform on Industrial Modernisation

Vanguard Initiative Match Making event – February 2016 VIDEO (voice of companies): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h5I6vvrkZY 3min 23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixDAKGapaUc 1min 26

Mainstreaming of the Vanguard Methodology

Conclusion The Vanguard Initiative is a clear example of the power of interregional cooperation and of the added value that can be achieved if regional innovation ecosystems are connected together.

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Thank you for your attention! Valentina PINNA valentina_pinna@regione.lombardia.it