Agenda 18 April 10.00–12.00 Welcome – Regina Summer, Enhetschef, Tillväxtverket  The state and future of Smart Specialisation from an EC perspective, Peter Berkowitz, Head of Unit,  DG REGIO Erik Joachimsson, News from Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation The results of S3 dialogue meetings, status of S3 in Sweden, Cecilia Johansson & Jens Sörvik, Tillväxtverket 12.00-13.00 Lunch 13.00–14.30  Update of regional work with S3 East Middle Sweden North Middle Sweden Tour de Table  Reference group 14.30-14.45 Coffee break 14.45-16.00 Presentation and discussion of support from TVV

Status of Smart Specialisation in Sweden and future steps Findings from dialogue meetings 18 of April 2018

Content of presentation Background to S3 in Sweden Background to dialogue meetings Status of S3 in Sweden S3 Issues Perceived added value of S3 Desired support from the Swedish Government from Tillväxtverket

S3 in Sweden Framework of strategies from different administrative levels OPs on NUTS2 level – MA (TVV) has offices at this level and Partnerships at this level. 8 regional OPs and 1 national OP Administrative competencies are at NUTS3 level - counties Original S3 framework level National Innovation strategy National research and innovation Bill Regional development strategies – NUTS3/counties Regional innovation strategies Regional growth strategies Additional strategic documents Sweden’s National Strategy for Sustainable Regional Growth and Attractiveness 2015–2020 Additional regional Smart Specialisation strategies

Dialogue meetings TVV - Government assignment on smart specialisation Meetings with all regional development responsibles With representatives from MA in the meetings. To map status of S3 work in Sweden Different approaches and processes What is perceived added value of S3 approach? What kind of support is desired from TVV and national level.

Findings from meetings Status of S3 Not all regions have a RIS3 today, but all have begun process and all have pieces of a RIS3. The ones who have RIS3 today, build on previous activities Don’t through-out babies with the bathwater – even renewed processes is built on the place based conditions – the soul of the region.  Different degrees of stakeholder involvement – collaboration and dialogue is Swedish model all have different processes / clusters / other types of platforms for stakeholder dialogues a few have regional innovation council All have general SWOT, but less detailed industry analysis and monitoring and evaluation less organised RDA - are  employing for RIS3 in general, a few assigning staff to man different priority areas or appoint clusters or similar organisations. Quite a few are engaged in different forms of inter-regional collaboration around S3, Thematic S3 platforms, Interreg, Vanguard, active in S3  platform,  national collaboration (NMS, EMS), Pilot on transition regions. Two upcoming topics are i) skills development (e.g. synergies with ESF & matching industry and education) and ii) digitalisation

S3 priority areas in Sweden Most have prioritized S3 domains, but different ways of defining and still relatively broad Existing areas of strength – Sectors - ICT, railroads Competence areas: e.g. visualisation Cross sectorial; ICT solution for health, or welfare services Future oriented areas of potential: autonomous digitised intelligent systems. Addressing societal challenges ; renewable energies, smart sustainable cities

Findings from meetings Different issues expressed Leadership is important tough to convince political level and to get stakeholder buy-in  At the same time – key to success - is to anchor process with political level. Shift of responsibility for regional development and in many regions the political level lacks experience with regional development. Need more material to show value of S3 to political level and stakeholder Existing material hard to relate to - regional circumstances very different  Clear assignment to regions to work on S3 – clearer structure - innovation strategy and regional development strategy S3 depends on relations - these are dependent on persons and these shift (policy and private sector) Tough to get an overview of regional innovation system - many actors, projects and institutions, regional, national and EU level Need to work more with background analysis The NUTS3 level is too small to achieve goals with S3 – collaboration is needed. Hard to get regional Higher education Institution to engage in process – today not in their assignment Problem/viktigt Ser sig som forskningsfinansiär 4,8% Inga innovationskontor på högskola Vill få högskola startkare i att stötta företagnde 9,5% oöverskådligt regionalt innovationssystem personberoende Ledarskapet mycket viktigt – svårt få med sig politiker Förtydliuga nytta av RIS3 regionala ledarskapet Exemplen man får till sig är oftast ganska orelaterbara eftersom olika regionala förutsättningar. politik oerfarna kring regional utveckling arbeta mer med analys - VAD Viktigt förankra startegi hos politiken Nuts3 för smått, behöver samarbeta med andrta regioner för att lyckas med RIS3

Findings from meetings Added value of S3 Regional innovation work is more structured and focused, better packaged which is easier to communicate Forces political level to prioritise More clear role of leadership for RDA in Regional innovation system More buy-in from regional stakeholders and better base for collaboration  More credibility to take leadership and represent the region’s actors in the S3 domain in region and internationally. Activities are more evidence based and better connected to regional strategic needs Built on place based conditions  Has become easier to work cross-sectorial More international activities – but also more selective  As a basis it also becomes easier to access different forms of funds, and leverage different funding sources. Better integrated learning mechanisms and M&E systems  Mervärde med strategi - hur används den? Forskare kan inte bara komma in med ansökan om pengar, utan måste koppla till vad regionen behöver 4,8% Lättare samla aktörer kring styrkeområden Lättare att stimulera innovation i tvärsektorer 9,5% bättre för uppföljning och lärande fler internationella projekt, men ej för företag primärt Lättare att arbeta i internationella satsningar, genom bättre trovärdighet tydligare ledarskap i RIS. Tydligare roll för högskolan Lättare kombinera kompetenser Lättare komma åt utvecklingsmedel Kan växla upp andra satsningar och få igång dem med S3 och S3 medel Mer evidensbaserat arbetssätt Tydligare fokus, på vad som ska göras 23,8% Mer delaktighet man ser bättre företags behov Lättare att arbeta mellan nyckelaktörer Bättre och tydligare paktering av vad man gör Att få politiken att förstå och prioritera Man får mandat Bra att arbeta med analys Viktigt att kunan säga att Tillväxtpolitik bygger på regionala förutsättnignar

Desired support from national level  A learning platform for S3   Support material that can be used in dialogues with regional stakeholders and political level.  More support in form of guidance, resources and guidance material:   Evaluations, identifying good practices  Analytical material; that show added value of S3, or regional potentials in global context, good examples  Guides; e.g. what is S3 and relation to other regional processes like regional development strategy (RUS)  Help in finding partners in other regions - internationalisation  Additional resources:   Support inter regional collaboration – top up funding and connect region Support regional initiatives taking a national leading role, e.g. smart textiles in VGR   Professionalisation of collaborative processes – cluster management    Bridge funding between programme periods. Nationell nivå Vill att näring går ut och säger att S3 är viktigt och ska göras 47,6% Samt att det finns i regleringsbrev till universitet, få universitet att tsyra mer mot näringslivsbehov 19,0% Koppla samverkansprogrammen med smart specialisering 14,3% Tydligare styrning och att regionala strategier stöttas från nationellt håll 0,0% Mer resurser Viktigt att vi bistår politikerna med vad smart specialisering är och vilken nytta det ger Nationella program hjälper till när det gäller mobilisering och fokusering i regionerna Vill att Tillväxtverket ska överbrygga till nästa programperiod 4,8% Kompetensförsörjning Samverkan med socialfonden Ramverk koppla RIS3 till RUP/Rus, för att övertyga pilitiker 9,5% S3 ska koppla till rus/rup nationell nivå ska peka ut vilka regioner som ska samarbeta Nytt klusterprogram

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TVV ideas of support - tbd Dialogue meetings Events, e.g. yearly national conference on S3 Learning work shops / Peer reviews Either of a almost ready strategy, like Norrbotten (with Swedish regions? Or Nordic regions? Or European ones?) Thematic ones – e.g. monitoring and evaluation Hackathon on open data sources and regional development Improved and richer web – soon changed – pages on S3, S3 pilot, interregional collaboration, international collaboration Short policy briefs (1-2 pages) in Swedish based on rich material from S3 platform, explaining process (e.g. EDP, collaboration, M&E) and added value of S3 Good examples from Sweden (short documents) Joint analysis to support regional strategy work, many regions carry out similar analysis, e.g. regional specialisations or areas of strength, related variety of competences, should we do this nationally? Evaluations of S3 processes and different steps of S3, comparing regional approaches. Support regions trying to find partners for collaboration in Sweden and elsewhere. Översätta Implementeringsguiden Kapitel 1 – EDP – RIS3 process Kapitel 2 – Analys Kapitel 3 – Samverkan Kapitel 4 – från prioriteter till projekt Kapitel 5 – Uppföljning Internationella exempel – med resultat Goda exempel – vad man gjort och resultat EDP – Värmland och Östergötland Hur förankra strategi hos politik (Värmland, Örebro) Uppföljning – VGR? Föranalys - Örebro, Skåne, Värmland, STHLM Projekt Samarbete i Sverige – ÖMS, NMS Samarbete i EU; Interreg –Beyond Edp, ( East Sweden); Vanguard – Dalarna/Värmland/Skåne, Pilto transition regions (North Middle Sweden); Horisontella kriterier – Värmland (Gender), Örebro (Inkludering?), Klimat (VGR?) Digitalisering – Västerbotten Utvärdering - SLIM