How To Live In Kvarken

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1 Cross-border actions for integrated smart specialisation Olav Jern County Chief Executive Cross-border Integrated Areas in Science and Practice AEBR Annual Conference, Liège 07/11/2013

2 Kvarken Region -Common history Cohesion Trade Communications Family connections Commuting Studies Culture Tourism

3 Ostrobothnia Österbotten Pohjanmaa

4 LAND UPLIFT CREATED OUR REGION Stones everywhere Narrow passages not easy to navigate A lot of needlework to make a net first steps towards industrial manufacturing

5 The Kvarken Archipelago Ostrobothnia is literally rising from the sea Land uplift is a unique natural phenomenon, which continuously alters the coastline of Ostrobothnia. Land is rising from the sea at a speed of eight millimetres a year. The Kvarken Archipelago was listed on the UNESCO World Heritage list in the summer 2006 The Kvarken Archipelago together with the High Coast in Sweden form a unique geological entity and a transboundary World Natural Heritage Site. The Kvarken Archipelago is Finland's first World Natural Heritage

6 The Kvarken Region The narrowest part of the Gulf of Bothnia between Sweden and Finland is called Kvarken. Distance from coast to coast: Ca. 80 km Distance between the outmost islands: Ca. 25 km Kvarken is the strait separating the Bothnian Bay in the north and the Bothnian Sea in the south, and it forms a shallow underwater threshold between Finland and Sweden. The largest water depth in Kvarken is only 25 metres. Gulf of Bothnia

7 The Kvarken Region in Finland: The County of Ostrobothnia The County of South Ostrobothnia The County of Central Ostrobothnia 35 municipalities Area: km 2 Ca. 22 % of the population Swedish speaking Regional facts The Kvarken Region in Sweden: The County of Västerbotten The Municipality of Örnsköldsvik 16 municipalities Area: km 2 10 universities 8 hospitals 10 airports 8 major harbours

8 Business Energy and technology Mechanical industry Wood and process industry Mining industry Food industry Tourism The business sector in the Kvarken is dynamic and versatile. The population has a high degree of education thanks to a well-developed university network. On the Swedish side mechanical industry, wood- and process industry, IT and communication, and mining are the cornerstones of the business sector. On the Finnish side, manufacturing industry is well represented. The largest energy technology cluster in the Nordic countries is located in Vaasa, over 100 companies with employees. Also the food industry, boat building industry and wood and process industry are important.

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10 The Kvarken Council The Kvarken Council is a cross border cooperation association for the Ostrobothnian counties in Finland as well as Västerbotten and Örnsköldsvik in Sweden. The Kvarken Council is one of eleven Nordic cross border bodies which are funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers.

11 Gränsöverskridande samarbete över fjäll och hav Meret, vuoret ja rajat ylittävä yhteistyö Grenseoverskridende samarbeid over fjell og hav Cross-border cooperation over mountain and sea Norge Norja Norway Oslo EUROPEAN UNION European Development Fund European Territorial Cooperation Cross-border Cooperation Mo i Rana Atlanten Atlantti Atlantic Ocean Bodø Nordland Gävleborg Västerbotten Örnsköldsvik Västernorrland Sundsvall Nordanstig Sverige Ruotsi Sweden Bollnäs Sandviken Sollefteå Stockholm Hudiksvall Härnösand Söderhamn Gävle Skellefteå Umeå Vaasa Vasa Österbotten Pohjanmaa Bottniska viken Pohjanlahti Gulf of Botnia Pori Björneborg Rauma Raumo Kokkola Karleby Etelä-Pohjanmaa Södra Österbotten Satakunta Ulvila Eura Keski-Pohjanmaa Mellersta Österbotten Seinäjoki Suomi Finland Helsinki Helsingfors Programme Area EU Programme Area Norway Adjacent Area Town > inh. Town > inh. Town > inh. Town > inh. TEN/E Road TEN Railroad Ferry Line

12 Population Density Europeiska unionen Euroopan unioni The European Union

13 Cross-border learning strategies Systems of innovation that are conducted within national borders can preserve inefficient solutions and prevent development. This has led to a feeling that cross-border and transnational learning strategies are more and more desirable. In practice, the field of transnational learning has been dominated by various policy-making institutions, such as the OECD and European Union, working through different types of policy instruments and programs such as structural funds, open methods of coordination, as well as international research institutions and networks set up by cooperating national governments working on comparative analysis, benchmarking and indicators.

14 Double loop The field has been dominated by single loop learning, direct attempts to identify and transfer what appear to be successful experiences, with relatively little attention paid to the double loop question, or learning how to learn. Results are mixed. Attempts to transfer good or best practice solutions often do not give proper attention to the unique historical, structural and spatial factors making up the good practices as compared to the context of the receiving areas. When generalized development strategies, such as cluster policies, tried to adapt to this difficulty by becoming more general, they were seen as fuzzy, imprecise and unfit as policy development tools. In looking at transfer projects, such as those organized by Interreg more in detail, learning more often than not is isolated to the transnational project itself, and not absorbed and applied in practice by the domestic partner organizations.

15 Knowledge management The core of a successful method is exploration, identification, analysis, evaluation and transfer of good practices between regions in different countries.

16 Smart specialisation The smart specialization strategy is focusing on the need to develop a variety of strategies, taking the unique characteristics of each region into consideration. On this basis, it focuses on the development of innovation systems. It is an integrated, place-based economic transformation strategy. In order to avoid lock-ins, transnational learning should be an integrated part of the entrepreneurial discovery process of the regions, supporting economic change. One way to gather the crucial critical mass and arenas for related variety is deeper transnational co-operation between institutions in peripheral regions in different countries.

17 What is the issue? Europe industrial sector(clusters) are not large world class clusters. European research system is mostly nationally based, resources do not cross borders. The lack of imagination when regions set their development targets.

18 Why now? Setting innovation as priority for all regions (Europe 2020) and improving innovation (strategy) process. Cohesion policy indicates the existence of RIS3 as precondition/ ex-ante conditionality for using ERDF for effective research and innovation investments. Better use of scarce public resources, aiming for synergies between EU, national/regional and private funds (PPPs).

19 What is smart specialization? Involves business, research centers and universities working together to identify a region s most promising areas of specialization, but also the weaknesses that hamper innovation. It takes account of the different capacities of regional economies to innovate. EC COM(2010)553 Regional policy contributing to smart growth in Europe 2020

20 What should be done in S3? It is an entrepreneurial process of self-discovery, that can reveal what a region /country does best in terms of science and technology. D. Foray, P.A. David&B.H. Hall: Smart Specialization - the concept (2009)

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23 Good practices are easy to discover, but hard to transfer The project learning paradox

24 Discoveries through mutual learning

25 Main points 1. EU 2020 and S3 provides a framework for R&D-cooperation 2. Patterns of innovation differens between the centre-pheripery (STI-DUI) cross-border regions have a role to play in the formulation and execution of policies 3. Research on innovation should not be limited to technical fields only e.g. Ostrobothnian companies innovates with customers and networking 4. Learning within the triple-helix is vital but also learning in a transnational environment

26 Relations inside the triple-helix Firms - Firms ABB Motors Piccolo Packing Main branches / clusters Merinova, Vasek Wärtsilä - Hanken Firms- R/D Public -R/D- Firms Firms - Public Start-Up ELY Center R/D - Public R/D R/D Public - Public Vaasa Uni - VAMK Vaasa Regional Council of Ostrobothnia Vaasa Central hospital

27 Policy S3 process

28 Thank you for the attention Österbottens förbund Pohjanmaan liitto Regional Council of Ostrobothnia 28