Bioeconomy in Flanders Policy aspects

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1 Bioeconomy in Flanders Policy aspects ERRIN BIOECONOMY WG 19 JUNE 2017

2 Contents 1. Region of Flanders in figures 2. Bioeconomy and circular economy policy 3. Cluster policy and smart specialisation 4. Other European collaboration

3 Institutional set-up of Belgium Science Economy and Innovation Flanders

4 Flanders: some key figures Population of Flanders ( inh.) by province Source: National Statistics Institute 2015 (1/1/2015) Limburg 14% Oost-Vlaanderen 23% Antwerpen 28% Vlaams-Brabant 17% West-Vlaanderen 18%

5 Key data R&D and innovation GDP: billion (2013) (= 58% of Belgian GDP, billion) Global Expend. R&D (GERD) : 5.8 billion (2013) (= 61% of Belgian GERD, 9.6 billion) R&D intensity (% GERD / GDP): 2.54% of which 69% by private sector GDP (PPP)/capita: 32,800 R&D personnel: 41,806 FTE degree of innovative companies (4 categories of innovation): 56% patents per million inhabitants:

6 Allocation of Belgian public R&D budgets according to authority (2015 initial budgets) Belgian total public R&D budget: allocated initial budget for 2015: 2.569,91 billion (no EU/international budgets included) source: Programmatory Public Service (federal) Science Policy 6

7 BIO-ECONOMY AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY IN FLANDERS WWW. C ATA L I S T I. BE 7

8 Flanders vision and strategy on the bioeconomy Interdepartmental Working Group on Bioeconomy started in 2012 Annual report to the Flemish Government Exchange of information and consolidation across several policy domains: R&I, agriculture, environment, energy, education, investment Strategy and first action plan in 2013; now in revision Link with circular economy and renewable energy policies, on regional and European level

9 Bio-economy strategy: 5 strategic goals Policy coherence Strength in Research and Innovation, and Education Sustainable production and use of biomass Competitive bio-economy sectors and markets European and international cooperation

10 Government of Flanders A long term strategy for the future

11 Seven transition priorities 1. Circular Economy 2. Smart living 3. Industry Lifelong learning and a dynamic professional career 5. Healthcare and welfare 6. Transport and mobility 7. Energy

12 Transition Circular Economy Circular Flanders Ministers Joke Schauvliege (Environment) & Philippe Muyters (Employment, Economy, Innovation and Sports) Transition manager Jiska Verhulst (OVAM) Strategy approved VR 24 February 2017 The development of a competitive bioeconomy producing biomass in a sustainable way and (re)using side and end streams for food and feed, materials, products and energy is explicitly included

13 Transition Circular Economy Circular Flanders : Ministers Joke Schauvliege (Environment) & Philippe Muyters (Employment, Economy, Innovation and Sports) Transition manager Jiska Verhulst (OVAM) Public-Private Steering Group -> chair of Interdepartmental Working Group on Bioeconomy is a member Project groups -> Interdepartmental Working Group on Bioeconomy => project group bioeconomy Policy research center on Sustainable management in a circular economy

14 Circular Economy strategy: building on Materials Management Programme New within circular economy (2017-.) compared to previous materials management programme Biomass Water Energy Food New approach: roadmaps Supply driven priorities: circular public procurement (green deals), circular cities and circular entrepreneurship Demand driven support: For partners and stakeholders through Communication and Community building Policy oriented research through SuMMa+ Sustainable materials management in a circular economy

15 Policy research center SuMMa+ Sustainable materials management in a circular economy To monitor, stimulate and contextualise the progress of the Flemish region towards a circular economy with minimal use of materials, energy and space and minimizing the impact on the environment Period , building on the results of the former policy research center on sustainable materials management SuMMa ( ) Financed by 2 ministers to link the policy domains of environment, economy, research and innovation Bioeconomy related requests for research put forward from the Interdepartmental Working Group for the Bioeconomy

16 New Cluster Policy (2016) Spearhead clusters Cluster organisation as facilitator Removal of obstacles for growth Innovative business networks Activities along the innovation spectrum (all TRL-levels) Strategic domains (+/- 5) Bottom up (+/- 15) Ambitious, Top down Long term vision (10 year) monitoring Triple Helix (comp, KI, gov) Smaller scale Short term results (3 year) All relevant actors, focus on businesses Contract Max 10y ; max 500 k /y funding Contract based on action plan up to 3y max 150 k /y funding 50% private investment 5 clusters currently approved 14 IBNs approved

17 Cluster Policy and Smart Specialization (1) 2016: spearhead clusters (VLAIO): strategic and competitive domain, triple-helix, long term strategy Logistics, materials, energy, AND Kno wled ge Gover nment Comp anies Spearhead cluster CATALISTI: FISCH (Flanders Innovation Hub for Sustainable Chemistry) combined with Flanders Plastic Vision Spearhead cluster Flanders Food for agri-foodindustry

18 Strategic sectors for the biobased industries: chemistry, plastics and life sciences (2015): 42 billion euro turnover, jobs ( indirect jobs), 1,6 billion R&D; 11 billion GVA (30 % of total industry) 1.6 billion for R&D; 20 billion export surplus Agri-food industry (2014): 60 billion euro turnover; jobs; GVA 8,2 billion euro Others: pharma, energy Harbors: Antwerpen chemistry, Gent Biobased cluster

19 Importance of harbors

20 Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant: o Multi-purpose pilot facility in the Port of Ghent (B) o Bio-Based products & processes o Current number of employees: 50 o Independent non-for-profit SME Investment in infrastructure (ERDF) o Interreg VL-NL : 13 m o Interreg NWE : 1,35m o ERDF : 1,26m o Interreg VL-NL BioHarT: 0,2mio From lab to industrial environment: o Process development & optimisation: proof op concept, opex, capex, LCA o Upscaling mg to g, kg, ton scale: prototypes for product & market validation o First series production: Market development

21 CATALISTI MEMBERS WWW. C ATA L I S T I. BE 22

22 Cluster Policy and Smart Specialization (2) Vanguard Initiative: co-operation between regions Pilot Bioeconomy : 7 cases of which two are coordinated by Flemish partner: biobased aromatics (VITO, Ludo Diels) en (waste) gas into value: (FBBV, Sofie Dobbelaere) Flanders is also partner in demo cases Lignocellulose Refinery, Bio Aviation Fuel, and Food & Feed from Agrofood Waste MoU with BIC Bio Industries Consortium (June 2016) -> March 2017: decision on foundation of V.I. as a not-forprofit organization under Belgian law, members to pay fees

23 Vanguard Initiative Bioeconomy pilot Partner regions: Lombardy (Ita), Randstad (NL), Scotland (UK), Wales (UK), Skåne (Swe), Värmland (Swe), Ostrobothnia (Fin), Central Finland (Fin), Flanders (Bel), Wallonia (Bel), Nordrhein-Westfalia (Ger), Brandenburg (Ger), Baden-Württemberg (Ger), Malopolska (Pol), Basilicata (Ita), Emilia-Romagna (Ita), Navarra (Spa), Asturias (Spa), Upper Austria (Aus), South Netherlands (NL), East Netherlands (NL)

24 Other European collaboration Sustainable chemistry and biobased economy BIG-C : Flanders, Netherlands en North Rhine Westfalia BioInnovation Growth mega Cluster Biorizon: Flemish-Dutch research center for technology development for biobased aromatics Horizon Societal Challenge2 including Biobased Industries Joint Undertaking (3,8 billion euro); Industrial Leadership Interreg projects cofinanced by Flanders (VLAIO) Flanders-Netherlands Biobase Europe Pilot Plant (BBEPP) North West Europe: Smart pilots (dept. EWI is partner, BBEPP co-ordinator): policy related project to support use and impact of shared pilot facilities : BE-Fl, UK, FI, DE, NL, FR, IT

25 Contact Monika Sormann Department of Economy, Science and Innovation www. vlaanderen.be ondernemende-economie/bio-economie

26 Public R&D&I budget /yr in Flanders: 2.7b a) EWI = Economy, Science and Innovation policy domain; OV = Education and Training policy domain b) budget from Federal authority & EU FP7/H2020: based on past average annual for VLA research institutes c) budget from ERDF: based on an estimated 40% that is allocated for R&D&I in the total ERDF budget that Flanders is entitled to receive from the EU Regional Policy budget

27 Annex5: Participation in EU FP7 on RTD Number of participations % Number of participants Number of projects Number of coordinators % Funding ( million) % Return (%) Flanders 2,884 53% 490 2, % 1,125 62% 2.50% Brussels 1,640 30% 479 1, % % 0.79% Wallonia % % % 0.73% Unassigned 26 0% % 9.3 1% 0.02% TOTAL (Belgium) 5, % 1,144 3, % 1, % 4.04% Top-10 participants Flanders Number of participations Funding ( million) Catholic University of Leuven, KU Leuven Ghent University, UGent Interuniversity micro-electronics centre, Imec Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, VIB University of Antwerp, UA Vrije Universiteit Brussel, VUB Flemish institute for technological research, VITO iminds Belgian nuclear research centre, SCK Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI)

28 ANNEX6: FP7 RTD: BUDGET / DOMAIN FOR FLEMISH INST. WWW. C ATA L I S T I. BE 29