1. Northern Netherlands Alliance (SNN)
Lena de Jong
Project Officer Public Affairs

2. 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)

3. 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

5. 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)

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

7. KET’s

8. Example

9. Thank you for your attention!