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FTA to position localised innovation systems in globalised value chains
Appropriately designed and implemented FTA approaches can play a vital role in addressing a significant dilemma faced by policy makers: On the one hand, they realise that grand societal challenges require pooling and prioritising resources even transnationally, and on the other hand, the implementation of concrete actions has to be locally optimised. Dialogue-oriented FTA methods can bring together all decision-relevant knowledge, raise the capability to address common future challenges, and stimulate and guide the different public & private investments in territorial and / or sector innovation systems to optimise outcomes.
Systematic use of FTA in a broader SPI context
The systematic use of FTA-based approaches in a broader Strategic Policy Intelligence (SPI) context can guide the development of smart innovation systems with the aim to
• identify global challenges & promising future markets,
• develop long-term oriented, “open” RTDI strategies,
• build competences & capacities locally, and look for complementarities globally,
• encourage key stakeholders to join forces to realise common strategies,
• support knowledge driven clusters as ‘micro-cosms’ which cut across and link regional innovation systems to ‘their’ global technology sector.
Thus, FTA helps ‘re-wire’ and reorient innovation systems towards successfully mastering the impacts of global challenges in ways that strengthen the competitiveness of sectors and increase the quality of life in territories.
Europe 2020 & the German High-Tech Strategy 2020
This approach is highly relevant in the context of the Europe 2020 strategy and its flagship initiative “Innovation Union” which aim at re-focusing RTDI policy on the challenges facing our society, and ask the Member States and Regions to develop smart specialisation strategies.
Accordingly, in the context of the German “Spitzencluster” competition - the flagship of the High-Tech Strategy 2020 and cornerstone of the national Strategy for Internationa-lisation of Science and Research - the Federal Govern-ment supports the development and implementation of future-oriented RTDI strategies. The overall objective is to find answers to key questions of the 21st century and thus, to position the Spitzencluster as innovative hubs in the global knowledge economy, which are attractive for talented, creative people, innovative companies and forward-looking investors.
Examples of FTA-based strategy processes in Digital Creative Industries & a Key Enabling Technology
Forward-looking (FTA-type) and outward-looking (open-innovation-type) approaches were applied to create e.g.
• a regionally backed & trans-regionally aligned Joint Research Agenda for ICT innovations in Creative Industries, an emerging lead market of the European knowledge economy encouraging innovation driven by societal and user needs in a creative way. Five research
priorities were defined: Visual & Interactive Experience //
Tools of Productivity & Automation // Digital Distribution // Mobility & Interoperability // User-Producer Interaction in Development (www.lets-create.eu).
• the Spitzencluster strategy for MicroTEC Südwest with focus on smart microsystems solutions for global challenges (in priority fields of the German High-Tech Strategy 2020) in strategic partnership with complemen- tary world-class clusters (www.microtec-suedwest.de).
Contact
Dr. Günter Clar & Dr. Björn SautterSteinbeis-Europa-ZentrumTel. +49 711 123 4010 • Fax +49 711 123 4011E-mail: [email protected] [email protected]
2011 INTERNATIONALCONFERENCE
FTA Informing and Guiding Innovation Systems to Optimally Address Global Challenges
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MicroTEC Südwest referring to priority fields of the German High-Tech Strategy 2020