1. Place-based innovation:
Living Labs and Smart Specialisation Strategies
Brussels, 8th
October 2013
Paola Capello
Project Manager
Regione Piemonte – Directorate for Innovation, Research, University and
Sustainable Energy Development
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Alcotra Innovazione project
& Lessons learnt

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Alcotra Innovazione project
September 2010 – October 2013
Alcotra 2007–2013 Programme
European territorial co-operation objective
Co-funded by the ERDF
Axe 1 : Development and Innovation
Measure 1.1 : Productive systems
Partners
 Regione Piemonte, - Leadpartner
 Regione Valle d'Aosta
 Regione Liguria
Provincia di Torino
 Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
 Région Rhône-Alpes
AN AMBITIOUS AIM
The establishment of
cross-border Living Labs

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Areas of activities and responsibilities
Regione Piemonte and Regione Liguria  Intelligent Mobility
Regione Valle d’Aosta  Smart Energies
Région PACA  E-health / telemedicine
Région Rhone Alpes  Creative Industries
Activity 1: Management
Activity 2: Mapping and getting the right people involved
Activity 3: Cross-border working groups set up
Activity 4: Implementation of pilot activities
Activity 5: Strategic Plan
Activity 6: Communication & Dissemination

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Different ways … same goal !
Regione Piemonte and Regione Liguria  Feasibility Plans
Région Rhone Alpes  simplified version of Feasibility Plans
 sort of hackathons in museaums
Regione Valle d’Aosta  pre-commercial public procurement
calls
Région PACA  eco-system approach and value-chain
identification so to make savings

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Results achieved
1) Launch of some trials after numerous awareness raising seminars and cross-border working group
meetings based on Feasibility Plans collected
ToM – Tourist on the Move
IPIMIT – Interregional Platform for Information on Multimodal Transport
G.TES – Ground thermal energy storage
2) «TRANSMUSEOBS» similar to hackathons
Two experimentations in a French and an Italian museum to find solutions to their problems. Multi-
disciplinary team have worked together for 3 days in tight relationship with users and museum
managers.
3) Creation of a cross-border eco-system focussed on e-health and design solutions to make elderly
people stay at home. Focus on a more efficient value-chain for healing people and delivering care
services by using innovative devices and encouraging Agencies for Health Care to use the Innovation
Procurement and pre-commercial public procurement
4) Pre-commercial public procurement calls on Intelligent Mobility and Smart Energy (VdA)
5) Assement kit developed and monitoring platform ALL http://all.alcotra-innovazione.eu/
6) Writing on reccomendations on how to set up cross border Living Labs soon available at
http://www.alcotra-innovazione.eu/livingLabs/definizione.shtml

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Lessons learnt – Tips
1) LLs do not suddenly appear  they differ one another  there is no single
recipe  see AI different strategies
2) Try to let things happen and do not try to impose any pre-defined governance
model
3) Necessity to explore and understand people, territories and specialties
4) Attention to have all stakeholders represented and involved in the right phases
and keep them always on board & importance of transparency
5) Mediation is important as well as IPR management
6) Assessment is fundamental because we know where we are heading
7) Always keep en eye on future and self-sustainability of LLs
8) Creation of a visual identity and definition of a communication strategy to
inform stakeholders about the results achieved
9) Importance of having a virtual space where to share documents and
communicate

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Final conference
Genoa, 24th – 25th october 2013
GALATA MUSEO del MARE
”Cooperation for innovation”
special event within the Festival della Scienza
www.festivalscienza.it
Calata De Mari, 1 (Darsena – Via Gramsci) Genoa
4th floor lounge Vespucci
Info and reservation:
patrizia.sommella@liguriaricerche.it

8. GRAZIE PER L’ATTENZIONE
Paola Capello
alcotra.innovazione@regione.piemonte.it
www.alcotra-innovazione.eu
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