Schedule

VIP Seminar
15th February 2010

Training for decision makers
16th - 19th February 2010

Evaluation workshop for decision makers
5th - 6th May 2010

Introduction and objectives

National innovation systems nearly exist in all Industrial and Emerging Countries. Primarily they vary in complexity and number of actively involved players, in scientific and economical Excellency of research / industrial partners, in degree and quality of the interaction between the involved as well as the general conditions for R&D / Innovations provided by the state. In practice, the respective impacts appear in different modalities.

Specific success factors can be identified, which generally determine the quality of R&D activities as well as the innovative ability and competitiveness. It should be mentioned that success does not always depend on (state) investments or the respective basic conditions. For example Cuba in the field of biotechnology or Estonia in ICT show that countries from the second or third range can also be successful without high state investments.

In the first part of the module key players of an innovation system and their tasks will be presented likewise main success factors will be discussed.

The second part deals with necessary steps and measures to get from a national or regional R&D / innovations strategy (which exist in Indonesia) to concrete actions for the implementation from which the main target group (primarily R&D institutions and companies) finally could benefit. In this regard the concept of a master planning will be focussed. Therefore the master planning is a first step to concrete respectively implement an innovation strategy mostly focussed on one key technology (e.g. maritime technology). In a second step it will be discussed how a master plan could be transformed into concrete support measures to promote R&D in practice.

Aim of the module is to provide practical knowledge about how a master plan and its main elements could be derived from a national R&D / Innovation strategy and implemented into concrete actions. This should be done as simple as possible. Referring to the elaboration of a master plan, it means that the focus should be on main steps and elements and not on a detailed concretion. The same is applicable for main steps concerning the implementation of a master plan into practice. Beyond, the current general conditions in Indonesia have to be considered adequately.

Focus

1. technological innovation chain ("idea-to-market")
2. key-actors of and their role in a (national) innovation system
3. key-success factors of a (national) innovation system
4. appropriate policy measures to support innovation
5. practical concepts of implementation of innovation policy measures
6. Indicator based Analysis of National Innovation Systems (ANIS)

Module 1 will thereby focus on measures to directly support innovation, e.g. technology funding programs, institutional innovation support or innovation competitions. Aspects regarding indirect support of innovation, e.g. national laws, specific regulation schemes or fiscal/tax policy will not be emphasized during the training. Where applicable, a specific field of technology can be highlighted. In general, the specific Indonesian conditions for innovation, in particular the existing SINAS concept or a gap analysis based on the PERISKOP study will be integrated into the training if possible.

A special focus to design a master plan will be delivered by means of “Indicator based Analysis of National Innovation System” (ANIS), which is a low cost method to assess the elements of SINAS and their interaction (see Appendix C).

Overview - Main topics of the module

1. Innovation

1.1 Achievement of a common understanding of "Innovation" and "Innovation Systems"

1.2 Modelling of innovation processes: "linear" and "chain-linked" models

1.3 Different types of innovation systems

2. Knowledge

2.1 Nature and impact of information flow in the innovation process

2.2 "Knowledge-Spillover" and "Information-Stickiness"

3. Interaction and Work-Sharing

3.1 Types of work-sharing in innovation processes

3.2 Cooperation in research and development

3.3 Additional types of shared innovation processes

3.4 Interaction and work-sharing as basic success factors of innovation systems

4. Elements and actors

4.1 Universities and other R&D institutions

4.2 Private companies

4.3 Providers for knowledge-intensive services

4.4 Input markets

4.5 Output markets

4.6 Educational system

4.7 General and specific regulations

4.8 Entrepreneurship

4.9 Institutions and networks

4.10 Infrastructure and general conditions

5. Innovation systems

5.1 National innovation systems

5.2 Sectoral innovation systems

5.3 Regional innovation systems

5.4 Comparison and challenges

6. Innovation policy

6.1 "Market failure" as a motivation for innovation policy

6.2 "System failure" as a motivation for innovation policy

6.3 Areas of innovation policy

7. Implementation of innovation policy

7.1 Indicator based Analysis of National Innovation Systems (ANIS)

7.2 Sectoral analyses of innovation "gaps", "hurdles" and "trends"

7.3 Innovation chains and corresponding technological and economical risks

7.4 Domains of public innovation support on macro and meso level

7.5 R&D project funding

7.6 Technology transfer support schemes

7.7 Entrepreneurial support schemes

7.8 Accompanying measures to support innovation

7.10 Competence centres

7.11 Science and technology parks

7.12 Networks and clusters

7.13 Innovation service providers

7.13 Funding agencies

Implementation concept

By the implementation of the module it is assumed that the participants already have first experiences and competences in the field due to several seminars in the past which cursorily dealt with some of the topics. So far seminars and support about how a concrete implementation of a research or innovation strategy should be carried out were missing.

Furthermore it will be taken into account that an Indonesian research and innovation strategy already exits. This policy paper has to be available for the course and has to serve as a starting basis for the elaboration of core elements for the master plan (in the field of maritime technologies).

After the core elements have been elaborated in group work, concrete steps for the implementation will be discussed. Thereby country specific conditions and challenges have to be considered. In particular about how a future programme / support for companies and research partner could be, which primary barriers exist and how these could be resolved as well as how transnational R&D co-operations could be encouraged.