1. Scaling-Up Cooperation for Regional Innovation:
Emerging Experience from the Basque Country
James Wilson, Orkestra & TCI Network
2. • Quarter of a century of Basque cluster policy
• New challenges prompted by RIS3
2009 2010 201220082004 20051993 1995 1996 1997 19981992
1992 2000 2008 2011
2013
3. • A ‘living’ RIS3 must scale-up & widen innovation cooperation
• Quadruple helix of agents
• Move to distributed
leadership both within
& beyond
government
Basque RIS3
Governance ‘House’
Within
Beyond
4. • Creating the spaces to
foster distributed
leadership: a steering group
model
5. • How is it working?
• Some questions on the horizon ...
1. To what extent are other actors stepping forwards as
government steps back?
2. How to manage the systemic tension between political &
commercial needs?
3. Are clusters representative enough of business?
4. How to encourage greater SME involvement?
5. Where is the fourth ‘civil society’ helix?