Periodic Reporting for period 2 - DanuBalt (DanuBalt: Novel Approaches in Tackling the Health Innovation and Research Divide in the Danube and Baltic Sea Region)
Période du rapport: 2016-01-01 au 2016-12-31
DanuBalt aims at identifying the innovation gaps hindering the current health research activities in the Danube and Baltic Sea macro regions. A systematic literature review and a survey followed up with qualified interviews have been undertaken to define the health niche markets with unique selling points of the two regions. The findings have been validated via 5 stakeholder fora in Bratislava, Bucharest, Budapest, Jürmala and Stuttgart. As an outcome an action plan and a catalogue of recommendations has been published together with a gap analysis report. These findings are the basis for 4 macro regional and 2 transnational pilot activities. Besides, DanuBalt offered a linking platform for both macro regions to explore collaborations and exploit synergies. Good practices have been highlighted on how funds could be successfully leveraged.
A systematic literature review buttressed by an online survey and interviews have been carried out. Three papers dealing with the health innovation enablers in the Baltic Sea and Danube macro regions have been drafted and are on-line. The gap analysis results have been the basis for the 5 stakeholder fora in Bucharest, Budapest, Jürmala, Stuttgart and Bratislava where these findings have been validated to pave the way for a consistent catalogue of recommendations and an action plan in the respective two regions. The findings of the DanuBalt project have been widely disseminated to the community beyond the two regions via its web platform, partner networks and social media alongside with best practices demonstrating how synergies between funds could be leveraged upon.
The current performance indexes, notably the Innovation Union Scoreboard and Regional Innovation Scoreboard) fail to capture regional data, in particular regarding innovation enablers. In consequence, this limits the scope of enablers to inform investments in capacity building that can help improve performance in modest and moderate innovator regions.
Therefore, DanuBalt focused on health innovation enablers in the participating regions that brought together available evidence with bottom-up stakeholder experiences capturing local context in a way that IUS and RIS cannot. Accordingly, it is expected that the catalogue of recommendations as well as the action plan underlying the pilot actions will contribute to evidence that there are still efforts to be undertaken to alleviate the innovation and research divide in moderate and less performing regions. However, there are already good practices that demonstrate the successful utilization of funds, resources and established networks to alleviate and counteract a suboptimal, if not averse, innovation eco-system.
DanuBalt has leveraged on these role models in its pilots in Period II of the project to unlock the potential of similar successful initiatives. DanuBalt aims also to provide an evidence based catalogue of recommendations for future policy design in innovations and research in health. A concept paper has been published and widely disseminated (Macro-regional Development within Health Economy: Solving Societal Challenges and Promoting Competitiveness ). The long term socio-economic impact and implications are manifold. DanuBalt offers visibility not only of what is wrong and should be rectified in health and innovation research but also showcases role models that could function as lighthouses that keep and attract new talents, leverage public and private investment and perform good research and innovation activities by effectively mobilizing resources and networks.
Therefore, DanuBalt focused on health innovation enablers in the participating regions that brought together available evidence with bottom-up stakeholder experiences capturing local context in a way that IUS and RIS cannot. Accordingly, it is expected that the catalogue of recommendations as well as the action plan underlying the pilot actions will contribute to evidence that there are still efforts to be undertaken to alleviate the innovation and research divide in moderate and less performing regions. However, there are already good practices that demonstrate the successful utilization of funds, resources and established networks to alleviate and counteract a suboptimal, if not averse, innovation eco-system.
DanuBalt has leveraged on these role models in its pilots in Period II of the project to unlock the potential of similar successful initiatives. DanuBalt aims also to provide an evidence based catalogue of recommendations for future policy design in innovations and research in health. A concept paper has been published and widely disseminated (Macro-regional Development within Health Economy: Solving Societal Challenges and Promoting Competitiveness ). The long term socio-economic impact and implications are manifold. DanuBalt offers visibility not only of what is wrong and should be rectified in health and innovation research but also showcases role models that could function as lighthouses that keep and attract new talents, leverage public and private investment and perform good research and innovation activities by effectively mobilizing resources and networks.