Northern Netherlands Alliance (SNN) Lena de Jong Project Officer Public Affairs 14-03-2017

Northern Netherlands Alliance Alliance of 3 Dutch provinces: Fryslân, Groningen & Drenthe Cooperate to strengthen the economy of the N-NLs, by fostering innovation Managing Authority for N-NLs’ ERDF Operational Programme and the RIS3 Networking organization for government agencies, clusters, knowledge institutes, businesses and intermediate organizations (facilitating body)

Policy instrument addressed: RIS3 in the Northern Netherlands Aims at broadening and connecting value chains, by creating ‘cross overs’ between sectors and technologies Invites businesses, clusters and knowledge institutes to jointly invest in new chains, products and markets Clusters and SME’s are pivotal S3 widely adopted in the NNL RIS3 operationalized in ‘N-NLs Innovation Agenda’ Quadruple helix governance

NNL clusters in relation to our RIS3 societal challenges HANNN (Health, Demography and Welfare) Water Alliance (Clean and Safe Water.) Energy Valley (Reliable, Clean and Efficient Energy) Green Linics (Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture and Bio-based Economy) Regions of Smart Factory (Cross-over between all the priorities) Innovation Cluster Drachten (high Tech – cross-over between all the priorities)

State of play in NNL related to ClusterFY Innovation piramide Risk behaviour (safe zone) Cross-overs Cluster importance Leaders   Developers Adopters Followers non­innovators

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