i'con innovation IMIS Automotive Supply Chain CS for West RDA Romania

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i.con innovation - IMIS Automotive Supply Chain
CSfor West RDA Romania

• Raluca Cibu-Buzac
• West RDA Romania
• 5th IRE Plenary Conference Shannon, Ireland

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State of the art West Romania automotive sector
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Expertise scheme for automotive

• Tasks of i.con Innovation under the IMIS CS
• March April 2006 Identification and selection
  of five examples for regional support of
  automotive sector (cluster management, network
  support)
• August 2006 Presentation of the examples to RDA
  West team
• 31 October 2006 West Region Investments forum,
  i.con presents practices of the EU in automotive
  cluster networks and supports the new automotive
  cluster initiative
• December 2006 Consolidated report on landmarks
  for the regional supply chain

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West Region Investments forum

• Workshops
• Automotive Industry local efficient solutions
  for multinational companies production
• Logistics, a problem? opportunities
• Industrial Development Strategy

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Expertise scheme for automotive

• Stuttgart study visit
• Organizers I.con, together with WRS (Development
  Agency of Stuttgart Region)
• Visits
• WRS
• Cluster approach in Stuttgart Region
• SKS online virtual platform for real estate as
  marketing tool for FDI attraction
• TTI (Technology Transfer Centre of Stuttgart
  University)
• Start-up support
• Centre organization and activity
• VDC (Virtual Dimension Center)
• VR demonstration (airbag design and auto showroom
  design)
• Potential applications of such a technology in
  automotive

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BeLCAR network application

• BeLCAR ('Bench Learning in Cluster management for
  the Automotive sector in European Regions)
• Consortium partners
• Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart GmbH
  (WRS)Germany
• Participating regions
• East of England Development Agency (EEDA), UK
• Clusterland Oberösterreich GmbH, Austria
• Centro Lombardo per lo Sviluppo Tecnologico e
  Produttivo dell'Artigianato e delle Piccole
  Imprese (CESTEC), Italy
• Centre d'Innovació i Desenvolupament Empresarial
  (CIDEM), Spain
• West-Transdanubian Regional Development Agency -
  Pannon Automotive Cluster Division (PANAC),
  Hungary
• UniversitiesCranfield UniversityUK
• CompaniesLogotech SAGreece

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BeLCAR network application

• March 2007 call for associated partners
• RDA West application was proven a success
• RDA West associated member of BeLCAR

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WeSteer

• Project title WeSteer
• Program 7th Framework Programme
• The main objective of this project is to put in
  place a set
• of tailor- made support activities and to create
  an appropriate
• institutional framework which will help catalyze
  the emergence
• of a research driven automotive cluster in West
  Region Romania.

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WeSteer

• Benefits to automotive environment
• co-ordination between the research community and
  the local SMEs
• co-ordination between the regional RTDI community
  and experienced European partners
• Strengthening and improvement of the linkages
  among regional enterprises within the
  newly-established institutional framework of the
  cluster
• The project will promote the co-operation among
  various
• players in this field, and will activate the
  growth potential of
• this agglomeration
• by mobilizing high-level scientific resources for
  the benefits for automotive SMEs,
• by establishing a supporting cluster management
  unit and
• by using linkages with European automotive
  clusters.

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