1. Peer eXchange & Learning
Policy instruments
for Smart
Specialisation
Strategies in
Pomorskie Region
Karolina Lipinska
Office of the Marshal of the Pomorskie Voivodeship
Aarhus, 19 March 2018

2. Overview of our RIS3 Main regional characteristics: RIS3 governance:
Inhabitants: 2.3 million
Unemployment rate: 5.7%
GDP: million EURO
GRD per capita: EURO
GDP rate of growth: 4.5%
Population increase: 1st place/ country
Export per capita: 2nd place/ country
2 national key clusters
Diversified economy: maritime industry, tourism, BPO, refinery industry, IT
RIS3 governance:
In order to make the discussion at the workshop as efficient and useful as possible, it is important to move out of the ‘classical’ presenting mood and head towards a more concrete approach to issues that need to be faced on the ground, while establishing and implementing your strategy. For this reason it is important to define a focus of your presentation, which would act as a ‘red thread’ in your presentation.
Please remember that the more linked to your presentation the questions are, the more relevant feedback you might get. By presenting the questions up front, you allow your peer critical friends to keep them in mind while you give your presentation. The questions should be repeated at the end of the presentation. Questions of a very general character can be made relevant for you specific region only if you give related information in your presentation.

3. Consequent entrepreneurial discovery process
Regional Program for Cluster Support
Two editions of the competition for Regional Key Clusters (in 2009 and 2010):
Pomeranian ICT Cluster (later: INTERIZON)
Baltic Eco-energy Cluster
Gdansk Construction Cluster
Competition for National Key Clusters (in 2015 and 2016):
INTERIZON (the biggest ICT cluster in Poland)
North South Logistic & Transport Cluster
Fundament for Pomorskie Smart Specialisations (PSS)

4. 4 Pomorskie Smart Specialisations

5. Regional system for the RIS3 implementation
Cooperation with OECD ⇨ emerging industries
Proof-of-concept system ⇨ microgrants for the verification of hypotheses of innovative ideas
Cluster policy ⇨ 3 regional and 2 clusters with the status of National Key Cluster ⇨ Activities within PSS
Expert support for the development of specialisation ⇨ approx EURO
Tripolis Initiative ⇨ specialized advisory services
Labour Office ⇨ study of the needs of employers for employees’ competences
Pomeranian Export Broker ⇨ support for export activity of Pomeranian companies ⇨ fairs, economic missions, grant competitions
Activities of the Regional Office in Brussels ⇨ coordination of support for companies and universities from EU level
AMI Experts ⇨ PSS internationalisation model along with trend observation

6. Tools for RIS implementation
Agreements on the Smart Specialisations – signed between Pomorskie Voivodeship and Partnerships representing areas of 4 Pomorskie Smart Specialisations, agreements specified the scope of PSS areas, research directions and so calles horizontal projects (relevant for the development of the PSS as a whole partnership)
Pomorskie Smart Specialisation’s Councils – created for each specialisations in order to organise permanent dialogue between entities operating under smart specialisations and regional government

7. Financial instruments - Regional Operational Programme
Priority Axis 1 – Knowledge commercialisations (allocation:140 million EUR)
Measure – 2 competitions:
178 applications submitted ⇨ total value: 114,8 million EUR
32 projects selected (in 1st competition) ⇨ total value: 20.5 million EUR
Measure 1.2. – 1 competition:
6 projects recommended for co-financing⇨ million EUR
Priority Axis 2 – Enterprises (allocation: 175 million EUR)
Measure – 2 competitions:
650 applications submitted ⇨ total value: 81,2 million EUR
233 projects selected ⇨ 32,5 million EUR
In order to make the discussion at the workshop as efficient and useful as possible, it is important to move out of the ‘classical’ presenting mood and head towards a more concrete approach to issues that need to be faced on the ground, while establishing and implementing your strategy. For this reason it is important to define a focus of your presentation, which would act as a ‘red thread’ in your presentation.
Please remember that the more linked to your presentation the questions are, the more relevant feedback you might get. By presenting the questions up front, you allow your peer critical friends to keep them in mind while you give your presentation. The questions should be repeated at the end of the presentation. Questions of a very general character can be made relevant for you specific region only if you give related information in your presentation.
Priority Axis 4 - Vocational education ( allocation: 96 million EUR)
Measure 4.2 – 1 competition:
8 applications submitted ⇨ total value: 24.1 million EUR
6 projects selected ⇨ 16.8 milion EUR

8. Financial instruments - national and international level
Operational Programme Smart Growth (allocation: 10 billion EUR)
174 projects implemented from Pomorskie Region
128,6 million EUR – value of support
Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development (allocation: 4,4 bilion EUR)
33 projects implemented from Pomorskie Region
14,8 million EUR – value of support
In order to make the discussion at the workshop as efficient and useful as possible, it is important to move out of the ‘classical’ presenting mood and head towards a more concrete approach to issues that need to be faced on the ground, while establishing and implementing your strategy. For this reason it is important to define a focus of your presentation, which would act as a ‘red thread’ in your presentation.
Please remember that the more linked to your presentation the questions are, the more relevant feedback you might get. By presenting the questions up front, you allow your peer critical friends to keep them in mind while you give your presentation. The questions should be repeated at the end of the presentation. Questions of a very general character can be made relevant for you specific region only if you give related information in your presentation.
Horizon 2020 ( allocation: 80 billion EUR)
84 partnerships of Pomeranian entities in Horizon 2020 projects (4th place in the country) - 17,8 million EUR - the value of EU funding

10. Question 1: How to combine regional RIS3 policy instruments to create a coherent and complementary PSS support system?
Why: We have introduced in the region an extensive number of instruments supporting implementations of PSS. Yet there are difficulties in combining these instruments into one coherent system offering support for stakeholders on all levels of development.
What has been done: There are several instruments within Regional Operational Programme financing the following stages of development of innovative projects: from the research phase to their implementation to the market. ROP also offers financing for internationalisation, advisory services, infrastructure development (for research institutes and higher education institutions). Several instrument are also financed from sources outside ROP.
What worked: The support for PSS is to the great extent coordinated by one department - Department of Economic Development.
What did not work: Support are fragmented between several tools and institutions (e.g. Pomeranian Export Broker - a project offering services supporting internationalisation but without advisory services and measure ROP – that offers advisory services).
This slide focuses on your question: try to formulate on this slide your answers to the following questions:
What is your question/issue?
Has something been done by policymakers in your region to address this issue or is it a completely new issue?
If you have done something in this area, what are the things that worked well for you?
If there was anything you have done to address this issue and it did not work, it would be useful for other participants to learn from your experience.

11. Question 2: How to choose adequate support instruments to increase engagement of the PSS stakeholders?
Why: We observed a decrease in the involvement of entities within the PSS as well as in the PSS Councils - their representative body.
What has been done: We signed a contract with Deloitte Consulting S.A. for the provision of consultancy services, including the development of recommendations in the field of managing the entrepreneurial discovery process and the development of the PSS. Each year we organise a series of workshops and events for each specialisation. Additionally thay can use a financial support tailored to the needs of a given specialization, eg consultancy. This year, we plan to launch a project aimed at animating the development of PSS and clusters.
What worked: Due to its long duration services provided by Deloitte proved to be particularly effective.
What did not work: All the support was effective, but still insufficient to increase the engagement of the PSS stakeholders
This slide focuses on your question: try to formulate on this slide your answers to the following questions:
What is your question/issue?
Has something been done by policymakers in your region to address this issue or is it a completely new issue?
If you have done something in this area, what are the things that worked well for you?
If there was anything you have done to address this issue and it did not work, it would be useful for other participants to learn from your experience.

12. Question 3: How to increase the number and quality of innovation projects in the region?
Why: We have organized so far several calls under the ROP regarding the implementation of R & D projects. Evaluation of these calls indicated that there is a small supply of high-quality innovative projects in the region.
What has been done: We are planning to launch the so-called 7 project type aimed at verifying the hypotheses of innovative R & D projects.
What worked:The calls have shown that there is a group of experienced companies in the region that are prepared to carry out innovative projects
What did not work: Cooperation between science and business is problematic. Companies are not focused on R & D projects because they are just learning innovation and science is not focused on cooperation with business.
The schedule of competitions under Measure 1.1.1, and 7th type of the project has not been well time-coordinated.
This slide focuses on your question: try to formulate on this slide your answers to the following questions:
What is your question/issue?
Has something been done by policymakers in your region to address this issue or is it a completely new issue?
If you have done something in this area, what are the things that worked well for you?
If there was anything you have done to address this issue and it did not work, it would be useful for other participants to learn from your experience.

13. Summary & next steps
Animating cooperation aimed at creating innovative projects (launching of the project for animating the development of PSS and clusters)
Complementarity and diversity of the financial offer (all-in-one-process)
Creating platforms, cooperation networks - and enabling access to know-how
Observation of global trends (practical tools, models, PSS monitoring)
Expert support tailored to the needs of the business environment
Stronger involvement of the higher education institutions (using its potential)

14. Thank you very much
Karolina Lipinska