Support to Clusters in the EC Competitiveness and Innovation Programme

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2 Support to Clusters in the EC Competitiveness and Innovation Programme TCI MEDITERRANEAN CONFERENCE Clusters as Drivers for Economic and Social Development in the Mediterranean Area İzmir, June José Freitas, DG Entreprise and Industry

3 TWO MESSAGES FOR EUROPEAN CLUSTERS WE INVITE CLUSTER MANAGERS TO ESTABLISH COLLABORATION ACROSS BORDERS and across SECTORS for the sake of cluster SMEs WE INVITE CLUSTER ORGANISATIONS TO GO FOR EXCELLENCE in support of SMEs

4 WE INVITE CLUSTER MANAGERS TO ESTABLISH COLLABORATION ACROSS BORDERS and across SECTORS for the sake of cluster SMEs European Cluster Collaboration Platform: Over 536 cluster organisations and counting: A potential to exploit synergy: - for business opportunity: match-making - for internationalisation: business fact-finding, match-making missions

5 WE INVITE CLUSTER ORGANISATIONS TO GO FOR EXCELLENCE in support of SMEs Cluster Excellence Initiative: Train-the-Trainer courses with the Foundation Clusters and Competitiveness Quality Labels for cluster organisations - with European Secretariat for Cluster Analysis (D) and with EFQM First Gold Awards in Vienna Clusters Conference April 2012 What? BETTER WAYS TO SUPPORT CLUSTER SMEs FOR COMPETITVENESS AND GROWTH

6 European Cluster Collaboration Platform The platform Ten good reasons to join the platform

7 The New European Cluster Observatory

8 The European Approach: The European Cluster Collaboration Platform (ECCP) Goes International Memorandum of Understandings promoting international cluster cooperation signed between the ECCP and Japan - The EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation (Tokyo, Japan) India - The European Business and Technology Centre, EBTC (New Dehli) Brazil - The Permanent Work Group on Local Productive Systems, Ministry of Industry Korea - The Korea Industrial Complex Corporation, KICOX (Seoul) Tunisia - The Agency for the Promotion of Industry & Innovation, API (Tunis) International match-making events for European cluster organisations Plan to launch 5 match-making events with international partners outside Europe In areas such as renewable energy and clean-tech, creative industries

9 COMPETITIVENESS & INNOVATION PROGRAMME 2007/2013 and EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT some pilot-projects supported TWO INTERNATIONALISATION AND INNOVATION TOOLS DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS ABC Europe (Biotech), EcoCluP (Clean-tech) FOUR PILOT PROJECTS - PROMOTING INTERNATIONAL CLUSTER ACTIVITIES IN THE CIP PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES (CIP Call 3/G/ENT/CIP/11/C/N04C011) FOUR PILOT PROJECTS - PROMOTING EXCELLENCE OF CLUSTER MANAGEMENT IN THE CIP PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES (CIP call 4/G/ENT/CIP/11/C/N04C021) ONE IMPLEMENTATION PROJECT FOR BUSINESS MATCH-MAKING IN THE FRAMEWORK OF INTERNATINAL CLUSTER COLLABORATION MoUs EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT-SUPPORTED BUSINESS-MATCH-MAKING, CLUSTER EXCELLENCE TRAINING AND SMES INNOVATION MANAGEMENT SUPPORT South Mediterranean: Pilot-rojects in Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon

10 Promoting Cluster international activities in Europe pilot projects To show how national /regional programmes can promote cluster cooperation in Europe in view of internationalisation strategies WIINTECH - Worldwide Intercluster Initiative for New Material and Processes on Clean Tech - Lead co-ordinator: Ministère de l Economie, des Finances et de l Industrie, DGCIS France REINA - World EU Cluster Initiative in Renewables and Sustainable Energy International - Lead co-ordinator: Basque Government, Spain BioXClusters - Bio Crossing Borders of 4 European Clusters for a Joint Internationalisation Strategy - Lead co-ordinator: Entreprise Rhône-Alpes International France EU4SportsClusters - Lead co-ordinator: ACC10, Agencia Catalana de Suport a l'empresa Spain

11 Promoting Cluster Excellence in Europe: To provide train-the-trainers courses (for multipliers), dissemination of cluster benchmarking, exchanges & collaboration through mutual visits ATC 4E Atlantic Clusters For Excellence Lead co-ordinator: South West Regional Authority Ireland - SEENECO South East Europe Network of Excellence for Cluster Organisations Lead co-ordinator: Corallia Clusters Initiative Unit (Corallia) - R.C. Athena / Greece CENTRAMO Cluster Excellence Network for Training and Mobility Lead co-ordinator: MAG Hungarian Economic Development Centre CDCM Cluster Development for Cluster Managers Lead co-ordinator: Aegean Exports Association, Turkey

12 The Rationale To Support Industrial Innovation for Competitiveness in the EU and CIP participating countries: TOWARDS DYNAMIC AND RESILIENT BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS : clusters as stable environment for business synergy, eg, SMEs collaboration, crosssectors niches, KETs TOWARDS MORE ADDED VALUE CREATION: integrating services into manufacturing TOWARDS BETTER POSITIONING SMEs IN GLOBAL VALUE-CHAINS: internationalisation Clusters as Competitive, Resilient Business Environments: Promoting and Sustaining competitive momentum Collective efficiency through business synergy: less effort by individual SME, greater results

13 European Cluster Alliance Open policy-driven EU platform, created in 2006 Develop better cluster policies in Europe How it works: on the basis of 6 Task Forces on different subjects supported by external experts, and Annual meetings 120 members (so far) Further information:

14 The Main Messages - Cluster SMEs to collaborate and go international the challenges are too great for SMEs to go all alone, all the time: growth and sustained jobs require added value and that requires synergy and resilience - Cluster managers to use European cluster support structures: The European Cluster Collaboration Platform - Cluster organisations and cluster mangers to go for excellence towards world class clusters Train-the-Trainers Courses in the Foundation Clusters and Competitiveness Quality Labels with ESCA (D) and EFQM - Clusters as competititve and resilient business environments for growth job creation in exploiting: - global value chains, - service innovation (services inputs to manufacturing) - KET s-related markets - creative industries - cross-sectoral niches

15 For More Information European cluster Collaboration Platform: see projects: New material and processes on clean technologies (WIINTECH); Renewables and sustainable energy (REINA); Biotechnologies (BioXClusters); Sport goods and services (EU4SportsClusters) European Cluster Exclelence Intitative: see projects SEENECO, ATC4E, CENTRAMO, CDCM European Cluster Observatory: Vienna 2012 cluster manifesto: Europa INNOVA: - see projects ABC Europe; EcoCluP Jose.Freitas@ec.europa.eu