Strategy SMART SPECIALISATION in Norrbotten Norrbotten is to be a permanent world fair for a sustainable and innovative future SMART SPECIALISATION IN NORRBOTTEN 1 Content Summary ........................................................................................................................................ 1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 2 Reading Instructions ..................................................................................................................... 3 Vision .......................................................................................................................................... 3 Purpose ....................................................................................................................................... 3 Goal ............................................................................................................................................. 4 Delimitations ................................................................................................................................ 4 Smart Specialisation the Norrbotten Way ........................................................................................ 4 Process and Analysis Method ....................................................................................................... 6 What Are Innovations? .................................................................................................................. 6 Radical or Incremental Innovations ................................................................................................. 6 The Public Sector in the Innovation System .................................................................................... 8 Civil Society ................................................................................................................................. 9 Creating Sustainable Development for the Region ........................................................................ 10 Development in Norrbotten During a Transformational Century ............................................... 12 Current Situation .......................................................................................................................... 16 Geography and Population .......................................................................................................... 16 Digitalisation ............................................................................................................................. 17 Competence Supply .................................................................................................................. 18 Climate Change .......................................................................................................................... 21 Globalisation .............................................................................................................................. 24 Research and Innovation ............................................................................................................. 29 Sami Research ........................................................................................................................... 32 Businesses in Norrbotten ........................................................................................................... 32 Goods and Service Production .................................................................................................... 33 Gender Distribution in Businesses ................................................................................................ 39 The Public Sector ....................................................................................................................... 41 Norrbotten’s Civil Society ............................................................................................................. 42 Sami Industries........................................................................................................................... 44 Challenges for Businesses ......................................................................................................... 45 Analysis ........................................................................................................................................ 47 The Innovation Support System – Map of Parties ...................................................................... 51 Parties ....................................................................................................................................... 53 Scenarios for Norrbotten 2050 ..................................................................................................... 59 Scenarios as a Method for Regional Planning and Development .................................................... 59 Scenario I: The Basic Industries Region ........................................................................................ 60 Scenario II: Knowledge, Creativity and Communication as a Regional Driving Force ......................... 62 Scenario III: Changed Global Climate with New Opportunities ......................................................... 64 Scenario IV: Smart Specialisation Based on Related Variety ........................................................... 66 Scenario V: Diversification According to a Model of National Averages ............................................ 68 Guide to Norrbotten’s Future Competitiveness ........................................................................... 71 Norrbotten’s Focus Areas ............................................................................................................ 78 Strategic Opportunities ................................................................................................................ 84 A. Digitalisation that Creates Global Competitiveness .................................................................... 84 B. Observing the World Around Us for Sustainable Growth ............................................................. 85 C. Creation of Test Beds that Give Access to the Innovation Environments of the Public Sector ......... 87 D. Creation of Clusters and Attractive, Innovative Environments ...................................................... 89 E. More Efficient Collaboration Between Innovation Parties ............................................................ 90 Innovation Index ........................................................................................................................... 91 Indicators ................................................................................................................................... 93 Learning Plan ............................................................................................................................... 93 Financing ..................................................................................................................................... 95 Reference List .............................................................................................................................. 96 Section Norrbotten’s Development During a Transformational Century ............................................ 98 Programmes and Strategies ....................................................................................................... 99 Articles ..................................................................................................................................... 99 Appendices ................................................................................................................................. 100 Appendix 1 - The Strategy’s Connection to Other Programmes .................................................... 100 Appendix 2 - The Composition and Work of the Competence Group ............................................. 108 Appendix 3 - Examples of Parties in Norrbotten’s Innovation Support System ............................... 109 Appendix 4 - Regional Environment Goals, Norrbotten County ..................................................... 110 Appendix 5 - Innovation and the Public Sector ............................................................................ 112 Appendix 6 - Entrepreneurial Innovative Systems or Institutional Innovative Systems ..................... 113 Appendix 7 - Norrbotten’s Municipalities, Regional and Local Specialisation ................................. 117 Appendix 8 - Norrbotten’s Participation in Horizon per Party and Programme................................ 126 Appendix 9 - Arctic Testing ....................................................................................................... 127 Appendix 10 - Internal Learning ............................................................................................... 139 Figures Figure 1: Summary of Norrbotten’s smart specialisation. ....................................................................... 1 Figure 2: A playing field for analysing the businesses in the innovation system. ...................................... 7 Figure 3: Norrbotten, placement in the NSPA. Source: OECD study NSPA. ............................................ 16 Figure 4: Proportion of elderly people in the population, over 65, today and in 2050. ............................ 19 Figure 5: Expected retirements per industry, 2010 to 2030.