Activity 8. Practical initiatives

1. INVESTING IN OUR COMMON FUTURE
2007-2013 Atlantic Area Programme
PROJECT MARNET ACTIVITY 8.
PRACTICAL INITIATIVES
F Javier Fernández-Macho
Institute for Public Economics
University of the Basque Country
(UPV/EHU)
Marnet/DG MARE Meeting
Brussels, 9 Dec 2014

2. Activity 8: practical initiatives
1 Define practical applications of the marine socio-economic
database…
…that enhance competitiveness and innovation
capacities in maritime economy niches of excellence.
Responsible partner: 4 (UPV/EHU)
Partners involved: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 10
Main goal of the activity (Project application):

3. Activity 8: practical initiatives
Actions related to the Activity 8
Action 1: Each region, to host workshop to show Data Base to stakeholders and identify
practical application.
Action 2: Four partners regions, hold demonstration of the
practical application (initiatives) of the Data Base.
The types of practical initiatives as follows:
Actions 3 to 5: an example of practical initiative in 4 regions…

4. Initiatives & Partners responsible:
• CIIMAR Oporto (Portugal)
– Impact of Aquaculture regulation on investment decisions
• SEMRU, NUI Galway (Ireland) & U. Stirling (UK)
– Comparison of Marine Economies – Case Study: Ireland and
Scotland
• IFREMER & Brittany Region (France)
– Shipbuilding and marine energy: similarities and differences
between subcontractors and marine equipment suppliers
• IEP, UPV/EHU Bilbao (Spain)
– The CISMar Index: A synthetic index of competitiveness,
innovation and sustainable development for the marine sector

5. • Partner responsible:
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
• Title: The CISMar Index: A synthetic index of competitiveness, innovation and
sustainable development for the maritime sector
• Description:
– A synthetic index that summarizes the information contained in the system of indicators
designed for the construction of the Atlas of Marine Socio-Economic Indicators in order to
measure the level of competitiveness and innovation of the maritime sector in EU Atlantic
area.
• Objectives:
– Assess the position of region of influence.
– Comparison to the rest of the regions in the network.
– Take measures to reach efficient frontier.
– Extensible to other European marine areas.
• Based on Data collection requirements:
– 10 marine sectors
– 36 marine Industries
– Classification according to 4 vectors of interest
– All the data collected at (least) NUTS2-3 annual level.
CISMar Index

6. CISMar Index
Focus on indicators from 4 areas of interest (vectors):
• Business & Economy
• (firms, value added, investment, landings, exports, etc.),
• Employment & Society
• (labour force: employment, wages, purchasing power, etc.)
• R&D & Innovation
• (R&D expend., high-tech services, entrepreneurship, human
capital, etc.),
• Sustainability & Vulnerability
• (environmental risks, resources, etc.).

7. Link to Sustainable development:
Social-Economic:
•Business ethics
•Fair trade
•Workers rigths
Environmental-Economic:
•Energy efficiency
•Natural resources usage
•Ecology
•Climate change
Social-Environmental:
•Environmental law
•Natural resources conservation

8. From Marnet database to CISMar Index

9. •Synthesis of Information?
• Factor Analysis
• Selection of weights?
• Equal weights : fixed scores
• Flexible weights : DEA scores : relative to ‘efficient frontier’
Methodology
Each region
maximises score
Consistent with own
competitive advantage

10. CISMar Index
• Overall Index
• Vector Indices:
• BusEco, EmpSoc, RD+I, SusVul
• Can construct subindices related to
Marine sectors and industries
at subsets and intersections:
• e.g. Fully maritime
• BusEco-Tourism

11. Example: cartogram map
IE Fully Maritime

12. Example: cartogram map
ES Full&Part Maritime

13. Prototype: cartogram map
UK & NUTS3

14. Prototype: cartogram map
Coastal resilience synthetic indexFR & NUTS3

15. Example: cartogram map
NUTS3 Fully Maritime

16. Example: cartogram map
NUTS3

17. Usefulness of CISMar Index
at regional level
In this respect…. local Government may use the CISMar
index score as diagnostic tool to
• Assess the position of its region of influence,
• Design future strategic objectives for the sector,
• Respond to threats and emergencies:
– Valuation study of the related risks to each of the economic maritime activities considered within Marnet
– Contribute to improve preparedness and response capabilities.
• In general:
– Take measures to reach efficient frontier
– Compare to rest of regions in the network
– Time evolution
– Extensible to other European marine regions.

18. To Do next?
• Identify cases (region,NUTS3) in the efficient frontier
• Implement Algorithm (online?) so that each case
(region,NUTS3) can obtain ranking with OWN weights…
– …to compare itself with others in terms of its own competitive
advantage
• Complete R&D+I and Vulnerability indices

19. Thank you