EU cohesion policy is designed to reduce disparities between Member states and regions across the European Union. However, some European regions have struggled to catch-up to wider EU growth.
... See More + Hence, the EU has implemented the Lagging Regions Initiative. The goal of the initiative is to identify the problems of the lagging regions and design and implement actions unlocking their growth potential. Poland and Romania were the first two countries, where the initiative was piloted. The Polish part of the Lagging Regions Initiative was named "Catching-up Regions Poland" and was implemented in Swietokrzyskie and Podkarpackie. The World Bank provided technical assistance (TA) and helped to coordinate activities in these regions. The Catching-up Regions Poland continues in another three regions, Lodzkie, Podlaskie, and Walbrzych sub-region in Lower Silesia. This report is one of the outcomes of this initiative carefully analysing the situation in these regions and identifying the potential for growth. One of the biggest opportunities to stimulate growth is to enhance the technology transfer from universities and research institutes and support local companies in the adoption of innovations. Thus, technology transfer is central to this report. In lagging regions, technology transfer can be one of the key drivers of regional competitiveness and regional growth1 and can play an important role in economic development in general. However, technology transfer is often rather weak in lagging regions compared to regional leaders. After a detailed examination of the situation in Lodzkie, Podlaskie, and Walbrzych regions, the report proposes practical recommendations that will lead to improved technology transfer capabilities, innovation adoption, and economic growth of the analysed regions. Technology transfer in the context of this report is understood in its broader definition as a transfer of intellectual property (both formal and informal) from universities and research institutes in to practice, university-based entrepreneurship, contractual research, and other types of cooperation between academia and private companies.
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This short note summarizes the technical assistance offered through the World Bank, to the three Polish regions of ?ódzkie, Podlaskie and Dolno?
... See More + l?skie, during the 2018-2019 period on regional innovation and entrepreneurship (I and E) support. The activity's objective was to enhance the regions' capacity in leveraging technology transfer from public research organisations to private enterprises to increase their competitiveness. The three regions, presently categorized as 'catching-up', have the potential to improve technology and knowledge transfer to local enterprises and entrepreneurs to be key drivers of regional competitiveness and growth. However, technology transfer and industry-academia collaboration are often lagging compared to regional leaders and industrial hubs. Following up on the World Bank (WB) experience in supporting the design of the Podkarpackie Centre for Innovation (PCI) in 2017-2018, it was suggested that the PCI model could be rolled-out to the three regions.
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This report outlines the support provided by the World Bank to the Dolnoslaskie, Podlaskie, and Lodzkie regions under activity six of the catching-up regions initiative (CURI) in the period July 2018 to June 2019.
... See More + Activity six, technology transfer and innovation, is a continuation of the tasks performed under activity one in 2016 to 2018, during the design and implementation of the Podkarpackie Center for Innovation (PCI), in the Podkarpackie region. Assistance under activity six has focused on three main activities: analytical support, technical assistance, and capacity building. Emerging recommendations from the analytical reports, combined with the know-how accumulated from the World Bank (WB) PCI engagement in Podkarpackie, and proposals submitted by each region, were used to identify potential pilot actions to improve business-science cooperation. The WB team developed three regional pilots that clearly address identified problems and challenges that are key for the Marshal’s Office (MOs) to deliver effective program implementation. Based on the lessons from this twelve-month engagement, the team distilled a list of transferable good practices that can inform policy makers and practitioners involved in similar actions. These recommendations are based on direct observations from the project and build on the good practices of designing innovation policy instruments.
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EU cohesion policy is designed to reduce disparities between Member states and regions across the European Union. However, some European regions have struggled to catch-up to wider EU growth.
... See More + Hence, the EU has implemented the Lagging Regions Initiative. The goal of the initiative is to identify the problems of the lagging regions and design and implement actions unlocking their growth potential. Poland and Romania were the first two countries, where the initiative was piloted. The Polish part of the Lagging Regions Initiative was named "Catching-up Regions Poland" and was implemented in Swietokrzyskie and Podkarpackie. The World Bank provided technical assistance (TA) and helped to coordinate activities in these regions. The Catching-up Regions Poland continues in another three regions, Lodzkie, Podlaskie, and Walbrzych sub-region in Lower Silesia. This report is one of the outcomes of this initiative carefully analysing the situation in these regions and identifying the potential for growth. One of the biggest opportunities to stimulate growth is to enhance the technology transfer from universities and research institutes and support local companies in the adoption of innovations. Thus, technology transfer is central to this report. In lagging regions, technology transfer can be one of the key drivers of regional competitiveness and regional growth1 and can play an important role in economic development in general. However, technology transfer is often rather weak in lagging regions compared to regional leaders. After a detailed examination of the situation in Lodzkie, Podlaskie, and Walbrzych regions, the report proposes practical recommendations that will lead to improved technology transfer capabilities, innovation adoption, and economic growth of the analysed regions. Technology transfer in the context of this report is understood in its broader definition as a transfer of intellectual property (both formal and informal) from universities and research institutes in to practice, university-based entrepreneurship, contractual research, and other types of cooperation between academia and private companies.
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Après avoir analysé les développements récents de l’économie ivoirienne ainsi que ses perspectives pour le court et moyen termes, ce sixième rapport sur la situation économique en Côte d’ivoire s’intéresse aux moyens qui lui permettraient de rattraper son retard technologique.
... See More + Si le pays a retrouvé une trajectoire de forte croissance après plus d’une décennie d’instabilité politique, son objectif de devenir un pays émergent ne pourra être atteint sans des entreprises plus performantes, puisqu’elles sont le principal employeur du pays et génèrent l’essentiel de ses revenus.
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The objective of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Venture Capital Project is to strengthen risk capital financing for innovative SMEs and startups in Croatia.
... See More + The project is structured in three components: the first supporting the development of venture capital fund, the second financing seed co-investments, and the third providing for technical assistance. Activities under the first component have not been implemented. Limited progress has been registered under the remaining two components. Under component two, the first call for proposals for Seed Co-Investment Fund required an extension to attract interest at all, and still only a low number of applications was received. Under component three, capacity building activities have not been implemented as expected, resulting in missed learning opportunities for Government, investors and potential investees. Hence, progress towards achievement of the Project Development Objective (PDO) and implementation progress have been rated as ‘unsatisfactory’ as per the December 2017 ISR. The project will be closed with a rating in the ‘unsatisfactory’ range because the PDO has not been achieved and related activities have not been carried out. The exact rating will be determined with the note on cancelled operation (NCO) report.
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