How the city of Sabadell is worling to benefit from the RIS3 Smart Specialisation European Policy

1. How the city of Sabadell
is working to benefit from the
RIS3 European Policy
Workshop: Medium sized cities:
An opportunity for sustainable inward investment and enterprise growth in a global economy
European Week of Regions and Cities
Brussels, 12 October 2016

2. A Sabadell outlook
How Sabadell is workingSabadell is a 208.000 people city only 20 Km
from Barcelona at the heart of the most industrial area of Catalonia
• An old textile and metallurgy industrial tradition
• Huge increase in services from the 70's
• Several important educational and R+D+i institutions
• Associated with some smaller surrounding municipalities with big
industrial states
• A wide number of civil society organisations

3. Curs en Gestió Aplicada de l’Estratègia
de Recerca i Innovació per a
l’Especialització Intel·ligent (RIS3)
The previous Sabadell
opportunities map
+ Barberà + St. Quirze +
Castellar del Vallès
Sabadell
Health
Sustainable Mobility
Cultural and Sports
Industries
Design
Packaging and
auxiliary services
Applications of
Unmaned Aerial
Vehicles
Industrial Systems
Dresses Technical
Design
Food industry
Energy and
Ressources
Energy efficiency
applied to the
industrial sector
?
Smart City
Cultural Societies (Òpera,...)
- Metallurgy
- Automotive

4. RIS3CAT
RIS3: EC policy for European Regions
Catalonia decided to replicate the model locally
They defined the catalan RIS3 strategy through 2 tools:
● RIS3 Communities, for companies and innovation centers
(healthy food, low emissions, mobility,.....)
● PECTs (Territorial Specialization and Competitivity Projects)
aimed at cities and counties

5. Innovation and Design for European Industry
(Sabadell Smart Specialization Strategy)
Design
E
S i
and innovation
In industrial
systems
Design
Sustainability and
User’s experience
(packaging)
Sustainability and
and security in industrial
Environment
Industrial
Systems
Sustainability and
User’s
experienceIn fashion textile
design-
Industrial
design for the
Active and Healthy
aging
ICT applied to
industry

6. Expected results
• To get a true shared territorial strategy
• To become a reference area in industrial design in southern
Europe
• To attract foreign private industrial investments to the area
• To attract public investments often oriented to Barcelona
city

7. Curs en Gestió Aplicada de l’Estratègia
de Recerca i Innovació per a
l’Especialització Intel·ligent (RIS3)
Thank you very much