1. : Experience and practice from EU projects on innovation policy René Wintjes (UNU-MERIT) 1 st Innovation Dialogue Forum, WBC-INCO.NET 8-9 November 2010, Becici, Montenegro

2. Lessons from selection of own experiences/projects From: Development of National Innovation Strategies for Bulgaria and Poland, before accession The positive power of showcases, especially when statistics are poor Involve both science ànd industry in …council, platform, dialogue forum

3. INNO-Learning Platform 2 pilots to promote trans-national innovation policy cooperation across Europe. Twinning between innovation agencies, transfer of practices (SE-LT) Peer review between agencies (NL,BE: HU) Lessons from both: - importance of personal visits and exchange; involve high and low level difficulty of different context; Importance of evaluations

4. ETEPS project: Regional impact of technological change in 2020

5. Pink: Metropolitan knowledge- intensive services regions Yellow: Knowledge absorbing regions Red: Public knowledge centres Purple: Skilled industrial Eastern EU regions Turquoise: High-tech regions Green: Skilled technology regions Blue: Traditional Southern EU regions

6. Top 10 technologies for 2010, versus top- 10 promissing sectors ICT, internet and computer technologies Alternative energy technologies Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, and Biochemistry Nanotechnology and nanomaterials Process-, control, automation, and robotics New materials Health technologies and Life sciences Computing, mathematics Environmental technologies Alternative automotive technologies Research and development (contract research) Education Transport, storage and communication services Motor vehicles Hotels and restaurants Health and social work Agriculture, forestry, fishing Pharmaceuticals Food products, beverages and tobacco Machine-tools, special-purpose machinery Computer and data services

7. FP7 Gprix: evaluation innovation policy for SMEs in traditional sectors One of three related FP projects on SME innovation policy Lesson: include CIS questions in surveys; We should have added a WBC-partner.

8. Innovation Vouchers Policy invention form Limburg (NL), evaluated the pilot and after 11 years It is a great tool to promote international cooperation

9. High impact scores of Vouchers on cooperation (factor analysis)

10. Monitoring progress towards ERA Potential for joint programming; Importance of neighbours

11. 4 specific ERA topics National mobility initiatives Transnational strategic partnerships and opening up of universities, to foreign researchers or collaboration Opening-up of national R&D programmes, for the participation of foreign European- based researchers Joint R&D initiatives

12. Cases of Joint R&D initiatives

13. Thank you For questions or comments, please contact: René Wintjes r.wintjes@merit.unimaas.nl Tel +31 433884474 http://www.merit.unu.edu/ UNU-MERIT - Maastricht University PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, the Netherlands