Policy Recommendations on Innovation Governance

The following Policy Recommendations have been agreed by the ForTransRIS Project partnership, and are issued as a consequence of the project’s implementation and findings.

Policy Recommendations are issued on Innovation Governance aimed at Policy-Makers at the regional, national and EC level.

EU Regional Policy-Makers

  1. To embrace strategic policy intelligence tools, such as Foresight, on the design and update of Regional Innovation Strategies (RIS).
  2. To broaden the scope of policies and at the same time be very precise in the goals to achieve, when addressing RIS. This is to ensure the proper horizontal coordination of policies leading to open and collaborative strategies. For instance, such as those related to Talent/Human Capital management or Mobility.
  3. To open up the design of RIS to other regions’ complementarities based on “proximity”, overcoming competitive hinders, and looking for collaborative frameworks, enabling Open Innovation and European Research Area building.
  4. To commit to strategic transregional alliances, key to the regional competitiveness, being aware that the results will not be on the short term.
  5. To ensure that RIS managers devote necessary resources to disseminate transregional opportunities to regional Stakeholders.
  6. To foster flexible tools and legal frameworks for the support of transregional networking.

Member States Policy-Makers

  1. To open a process to define the most efficient policy-mix between the central and regional policy level, in order to ensure the proper transregional cooperation efforts by EU regions.
  2. To promote and support the specific demands and proposals issued by regions, at the EC level, leading to a better European Innovation Governance.
  3. To implement more cohesive macroeconomic policy frameworks allowing for a further strengthening of open and collaborative innovation efforts, such as the protection of Intellectual Property Rights, Fiscal policies and Education and Training policies…

EC Policy-Makers

  1. To strengthen the fora where EU Regions’ proposals might be heard and debated upon, ensuring the emergence and support of bottom-up processes on the innovation policy field.
  2. To open the scope of existing EC Policies and Programmes (Territorial Cooperation, Framework Programmes) to allow the flexible and long term support of synergy oriented transregional collaborative frameworks between different EU regions.
  3. To improve the horizontal coordination complementarities among EC different policies and Programmes: Structural Funds, Framework Programme and Competitiveness and Innovation Programme.
  4. To compile and disseminate Good Practices in the development of open and innovative transregional action oriented cooperation stories among EU Regions, beyond specific projects.