Transcript FRESH
Regional Advisory Group meeting
14 March 2012
Policy Audit Tool
Eco-Innovation Component
Lauri Kuukasjärvi
Päijät-Häme Regional Council
[email protected]
FRESH Profile
• Forwarding Regional Environmental Sustainable Hierarchies (0499 R2
FRESH);
• Interreg IVC; approved under the 2nd call.
• Duration: 5.11.2009-28.2.2013 Budget: 2 010 312,95€
• Partnership: Kainuun Etu OY-LP (FI); Joint Authority of Kainuu Region
(FI); Regional Council of Päijät Häme (FI); Lappeenranta University of
Technology, Lahti School of Innovation (FI),
• MidWest Regional Authority (IE), South West Regional Authority (IE),
University of Limerick (IE),
• Veneto Region (IT), University of Padova (IT),
• London Thames Gateway Development Corporation (UK; 5.11.200930.6.2011),
• West RDA (RO), Lubelskie Voivodeship (PL).
• Website: http://freshproject.eu
FRESH Profile
Objectives
• overall objective: Strengthen
development in the regions, by:
Sustainable
Value
Creation(SVC)
• Subobjective1: Address SVC in the regional development plan
• Subobjective2: Strengthen eco-innovation addressing SVC in the regional
innovation strategies of the partner regions
(formulation of the
ecoinnovation component)
Organisation of the work
• 11 policy themes; 3 addressing SVC in the regional development plan
and 8 addressing SVC in the regional innovation strategy.
• Good practice collection and analysis (until 16.11.2011)
• 51 contributions; 14 partners prioritised ’better practices’;
• 10 of the better practices included in the Intereg IV C data base (13.1.2012)
Policy Audit Tools
• What and Why
– Policy Audit Tools are there to help partner regions to
evaluate the performance of eco-innovation
component after the end of FRESH project
– Specialised, targeted policy audit tools are usually
missing from regional actors
– Activity was integrated in FRESH action plan under
Component 3, Activity 3.5.
– Common costs shared among the regional authority
partners.
Policy Audit Tool
• Background: the priorities from the original FRESH
approach + the synergies that resulted later
(1) Original FRESH approach
• Environmental Technologies Action Plan, revised EU SDS
• Lead Market Initiative
• Demand led innovation (standards and public procurement)
(2) Synergies that resulted later
• Affinity with the Smart Specilisation strategy
• In conclusion: FRESH introduces & emphasises a
– very focused approach to sustainable development and
– as such it requires corresponding valuation tools
Policy Audit Tool
• State of the art
– International competition:
• planning of tender Spring 2011;
• tender publication autumn 2011;
• selection of expert during the 5th Interregional Steering
Committee in Lublin, PL 15th & 16th.11.2011
– Expert contracted in January 2012,
– Consult work
• Reviewed material from the regions and
interviewed all partners
• Data collection from partners
– available also through the FRESH web site
Policy Audit Tool
• Next steps
– Regions to give comments to the tool
– Consultant to develop the policy audit tool;
– tool is adjusted for each partner region
– will be presented in the next international FRESH
meeting in May 2012
Eco-Innovation Component
• What
– Main purpose of FRESH is to strengthen the RIS of
the partner regions by integrating Eco-Innovation
into RIS of the region
– FRESH proceeded in 2 ways:
• first: regional interest toward sector based approach on
innovation – where do the regions want to focus?
• Second: through the exchance of good practices
– to identify the methods and tools that
– could help the eco-innovation component to happen
Eco-Innovation Component
• Selection of the sector was made by the four criteria:
– Competitive criterias plus catching up criteria
• Structure / form
– The eco inovation component was originally conceived in
a very straightforward way, comprising four parts:
• justification, standards, competencies, and projects in the field
– Each region, supported by PP3, would be making own
content (of eco innovation) based on this structure
• Turning point: FRESH synergy with the Smart
specialisation strategy