The Budapest Manifesto (Francesco Molinari)

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The Budapest Manifesto

Francesco Molinari,
mail@francescomolinari.it
Budapest, 2-10-2012

This project is implemented through the CENTRAL
EUROPE Programme co-financed by the ERDF


Contents
• Towards the constitution of a NeSTI, Network of Cities and
Regions for Social and Territorial Innovation
• Why the need for such a network
• Baseline: from policy research to practice
• A role for the Living Labs approach
• Living Labs and Smart Specialisation
• Lines of action
• Targeted members
• Key network activities
• Strategic alliances
• Timeline
Francesco Molinari 2


NeSTI
• Network for Social and Territorial Innovation
• Opento all regional and local government bodies and
agencies, including EGTCs
• Signatories to Budapest Manifesto (officially
disclosed today, still open to proposals for changing
individual parts of it)
• Commitmentto cross-border, transnational, and
inter-regional cooperation to address keychallenges
of modern times through Social and Territorial
Innovation


Why the need for such a network
• Three great challenges for the EU and global public
sector:
– Financial crisis undermining the European social model
– Climate change already threatening anddestroying our
territories
– Crisis of representation and the democratic deficit
• “Traditional” answers are proving ineffective
– Most of the “new” policies and services require a deep
and complete engagement of citizens/businesses
– There is an untapped potential of Future Internet
technologies in mobilizing and finalizing people’s activism


Why (foll.)
• Shared strategies are required:
– Innovation as the guiding policy, but improving democratic
governance
– Capturing the potential of increasing civic participation
together with Future Internet
– Re-framing the role of the public sector in a demand-
driven perspective
• Too little capitalisation so far
– Recent experiences, still ongoing (e.g. Smart Cities)
– Risk of effort duplication, limited impact



Baseline
• MedLab: Mediterranean Living Lab for Territorial Innovation
– ERDF TC MED, 2009-2011
• Alcotra Innovation
– ERDF TC Cross-Border Alcotra, 2010-2013
• CentraLab: Central European Living Lab for Territorial Innovation
– ERDF TC CEE, 2011-2014
• Parterre: Electronic Participation Tools for Spatial Planning and
Territorial Development
– CIP (ICT-PSP), 2010-2012
• Periphèria: Networked Smart Peripheral Cities for Sustainable
Lifestyles
– CIP (ICT-PSP), 2010-2013


Arole for the LL approach
Framework conditions

Physical/Virtual
Infrastructure Regional development

Human Capital
Sustainable
Growth Policy instruments
Smart Specialisation EU Funding of R&D
Strategy and Innovation Living Labs?
Social Inclusion
Natural
Resources Etc.

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The Smart Specialisation concept
Inward-looking Outward-looking
• Focus policy support and public • Search integration and coordination of the
investments on key national/regional nation’s / region’s potential for excellence
and comparative advantage within the
priorities, challenges and needs for international division of work
development • Prioritize interventions on the country’s /
• Build interventions on the region’s most connected industries, so
country's/region’s strengths, competitive that they are best enabled to learn from
the outside world
advantages and potential for excellence
• Promote technological diversification of
• Support technological innovation as well existing local industries in related and
as practice-based (e.g. ecological and emerging domains
organisational) innovation • Align human capital endowments and
qualifications to the current and
• Get local stakeholders fully involved and prospective needs of the key enterprise
encourage private sector investment and sector(s)
pilot experimentation • Enhance the framework conditions for
• Develop evidence-based policies with greater business expenditure in R&D and
(open, social) innovation
sound monitoring and evaluation systems.



• We know (from the EC guidelines) that an
When?
“ideal” S3 construction process is made up
of several steps, starting from an Analysis
of initial conditions, and proceeding with
the setup of a Governance structure, the
execution of a Visioning exercise, and Monitoring Analysis
culminating into the Selection of funding
priorities;
• These have to be embedded into an
appropriate Policy mix and their strategic
and operational rollout has to be carefully Policy mix Governance
monitored and evaluated, in the
perspective of replicating the experiment
for another instantiation within the same
(or a new) programming period
• Based on our experience, we envisage that Selection Vision
most – if not all – of the above stages are
suitable for integration with the Living Lab
approach.
• The most promising areas are highlighted
in deep blue colour.


Lines of Action
• Adoption of the Living Lab citizen-
centric approach to co-design
policy solutions capturing the
benefits of the Future Internet
• Bottom-up Smart Specialisation
strategies integrating local
Territorial Agenda and Digital
Agenda priorities with innovation
profiles
• Experimentation of multi-
stakeholder co-production of
public services and pre-
commercial public procurement
as a motor of innovation



Targeted members: Regions and
Cities
• Key role to play in a logic of multi-level
governance closer to the citizen
• Mandate to intervene on key systems, with
harmonic territorial development
• Programming responsibility for majority of EU
development funds
• Network capital built on experiences of
territorial cooperation


Key Network Activities
• Play a pro-active role in the Smart Specialisation Platform
based on the community-driven Living Lab process
approach
• Promote reciprocal learning, transfer and sharing of good
practice within the member organisations
• Establish means for transversal, multi-level inter-sectoral
and multi-disciplinary governance of innovation processes
• Develop common and macro-regional strategies that
integrate funding sources bottom-up (FP, ERDF, ESF, EARDF,
EFF, etc.)
• Define concrete goals, success criteria, and performance
indicators through a mixture of competitive and
collaborative benchmarking



Strategic Alliances
• ENoLL, the European Network of Living Labs
• Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of
Europe
• IPTS and the S3 Platform community
• ERRINand other Regions for Economic Change networks
• RegioNetwork 2020
• The European Urban Knowledge Network (EUKN)
• The CIP ICT PSP Connected Smart Cities Portfolio
• EuroCities
• Covenant of Mayors
• Other



Timeline
• October 2nd, 2012
– Launch of the Budapest Manifesto
• October2012
– Publication of the draft document on a consultation site
– Dissemination of the public consultation opportunity
– Official transmission to the EC (DG Regio) as an open document
• December 2012
– Target of 20 signatories, more invited
• June 2013
– 1st International Conference in the context of the CentraLab project,
open to Regional and City representatives at EU level
• December 2013
– Target of 50 signatories, more invited



Thanks for your kind attention

Francesco Molinari,
mail@francescomolinari.it


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