De mi vida personal no recuerdo nada más que hace un mes y medio que he sido padre. Joana centra ahora toda la atención de que dispongo. Aún así, me apetece mucho participar de este blog. Al entusiasmo de Alex no puedo decir “no”. De mi vida profesional, que la innovación y la creación de empresas son mi pasión.
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enero 23, 2008 at 1:37 pm
I am here!!! it took me long but I hope I get into the vicious circle of participating rapidly!.
I am writing you from Stockholm. A cold but fantastic city. I am attending the conference organized by The European Comission and VINNOVA, the Regional Development Agency of Sweden.
It is basically a “show” to visualize that Cluster policies are very important and that the European Comission should take it as a priority for the near future policies.
The analysis starts with the fact that, yes, we finally assume it, Europe will not meet the Lisbon agenda to become the most innovative region in the world by 2010. Esko Aho, former Prime Minister of Finland and now President of SITRA, was, with the so called “Aho report” in 2006, one of the first to claim that the European Comission policies based on creating supply by giving more and more money on R+D has not given the results expected.
His conclusions at 2006 were that, Europe needs a deep change in its social model. Fundamental things need to change. Stability and innovation is nice “wording” but not possible. Keys to improve innovation:
1. Market creation
Aho uses a very controversial comparison. He compares the Soviet Union and European union: both use same politics, that is, putting resources to R+D, that is SUPPLY. But demand has not worked!!!. The key is to create early and lead market, DEMAND!!. It is the main difference between EU and US
2. Financing tools
Europe needs more € investment to attract scientific talent instead of building r+d facilities. Governments have to concentrate on infrastructures (clear enough) and architechture (creating opportunities for private sector)
3. Mobility
Probably one of the most important things: higher mobility of Knowledge, Capital and People!!! Europeans tend to overestimate the risk of new things as compared of risk to leave thins as they are.
4. Risk taking and entrepreneurship
Give priority to private money: Business angel: € + knowledge
After this diagnosis, the point is, well, what do we do now… and that is why we are here in Stockholm. There are many conclusions of the conference I would like to share with you about clusters but I would like to stress only one: Cluster policy is now to some extent a “stand alone” policy but it has the potential to be further exploited if other policies take clusters as they point of gravitation. That means cluster strategy define the path and the rest of policies should align to it. It will help regions to focus on competitiveness of companies, that is, in business models, and put the money where it is needed.
By the way, this has been my first contribution… hope to be more active.
Salut!