Introduction to the JRC MOOC on Monitoring Smart Specialisation and to the background activities of the project "Targeted Support" that made the MOOC possible.

1. The European Commission’s science
and knowledge service
Joint Research Centre

2. Introduction to the MOOC on
Monitoring Smart Specialisation
Elisabetta Marinelli
Elisabetta.Marinelli@ec.europa.eu

3. Smart
Specialisation
S3 Platform &
Targeted
Support
From the
Working Group
to Online
Course
Contents of the
MOOC
Overview of the presentation

4. What is Smart Specialisation?
Ex-ante
conditionality
TO1
Localisation
ParticipationPrioritisation

5. Territorial development Unit
Areas of work Analytical tools

6. Territorial Development Unit
Strumenti analitici

7. Észak-Alföld Nord-Vest
Nord-Est
Eastern Macedonia
and Thrace
Puglia
Warminsko
Masurskie
Targeted support to RIS3 implementation in selected regions
Regional activities
Entrepreneurial discovery; researchers’
mobility; analysis of higher education
institutions, etc. etc.
Targeted Support Activities
Horizontal activities
Monitoring working group; governance
working group; surveys; databases; etc.

8. February 2017
•Why monitoring
•Logic of intervention
•Results and output indicators
May 2017
•Monitoring RIS3 vs OP
•Stakeholders’ engagement in monitoring
•Data collection, methodologies and targets
•Influence on decision makers
July 2017
•Multi-level monitoring coordination
•Role of open data
• Individual skills and institutional capabilities
Monitoring Working Group – Targeted Support
Activities

9. Monitoring Working Group
• Presentations
Experts, JRC,
regions, member
states
Plenaries
• Feedback among
regions
Deeper
understanding for
the JRC
Peer
discussions • One-to-One
regions and
expert
Specific
objectives
Region-
specific work

10. Theory
Monitoring:
• Control, communication and
consensus building functions
• Long-term investments
• Need for political support as well as
technical skills
Practice
Challenges:
• Flexibility of RIS3 vs. Rigidity of
OP
• Human and Institutional capital
• Governance and monitoring
inefficent links
Monitoring Working Group

11. RIS3 Monitoring MOOC
(Massive Open Online Course)
https://iversity.org/en/courses/monitoring-smart-Specialisation-strategies

12. Monitoring Working Group
MOOC
Intervention
logic
Data
sources
Stakeholders
engagement
Impact

13. RIS3 Monitoring MOOC
(Massive Open Online Course)
• Monitoring of RIS3
Priorities
• Integrated to the
strategy
• Investment in time and
resources
• Monitoring the OP or the
innovation system
• Bourocratic obligation
• Ready-made indicators
YES NO

14. RIS3 Monitoring MOOC: Indicators
Indicators by RIS3 priority3
• Output:
• Measure of the direct product of the
policy (i.e. number of projects
financed/funds spent)
• Result:
• Measure of the socio-economic effect
to be obtained through the policy
Coherence with logic of intervention
• Priorities, objetives, instruments

15. RIS3 Monitoring MOOC: Data sources
Empirical Framework
Key actors
Applicants
Beneficiaries
Non-
Beneficiaries
Non-
applicants
Identification of RIS3 priorities
Data-mining
to projects
Declaration
by applicants

16. RIS3 Monitoring MOOC: Data Sources
Output Indicators
• Generated automatically by the
information system
• (n. projects; funds; type of
beneficiary by priority; etc.)
• Expost Project questionnaire
(Puglia)
Result Indicators
• Beneficiaries questionnaire
• Potential beneficiaries
questionnaire (i.e innovation
surveys)
• Comparison
• beneficiary – non beneficiary
• applicant-non applicant
Indicadores de Output
Applicants (not) & Beneficiaries (not)
By priority

17. RIS3 Monitoring MOOC: Fuente de datos
Indicadores de Output
Sources Pros Cons
Official statistics Reliable, cheap,
comparable
Time lag
Not necessarily priority-
specific
Surveys Timely
Flexibile
Expensive
Representability
Response rate
Other qualitative data Address small communities
Focus on process
Interpretation bias
Unreplicability
Reflections over other data sources

18. Light participation: communication, informative activities
Stronger participation -> monitoring committee/working groups
• Trust-building
• Co-definition of success (private sector ≠ public sector)
• Capacity-building
Extremadura case-study: working groups by priority
RIS3 Monitoring MOOC: Stakeholders’ engagement

19. RIS3 Monitoring MOOC: Effectiveness and
Communication
• Commitment
• Strategy
• Champions
Support at the
decision making
level
• Financial
• Human
• Analytical skills
Resources
• Skills
• Channels – decision makers
Communication

20. RIS3 Monitoring MOOC
(Massive Open Online Course)
• 1st March
• Free
• RIS3 and Innovation-policy practitioners
• Monitoring and not
• Videos, exercises, reading list, good practice examples
• Forum for discussion, access to tutors
Thank you!
https://iversity.org/en/courses/monitoring-smart-Specialisation-strategies