Innovative clusters in IRE projects

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Innovative clusters in IRE projects

• Focus group Clusters and Innovation Financing
• 29 May 2006
• Lena Mårtensson

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New RIS projects Focus Groups
Objectives

• To bring together RIS regions that share interest
  in specific regional innovation topics
• To raise awareness and improve the understanding
  of RIS staff members on strategies and schemes in
  the selected fields
• To exchange experience and build long-lasting
  co-operation among the participating regions
• To help prepare the innovation strategies and
  respective RIS action plans of the member regions

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New RIS projects Focus Groups
Three RIS Focus Groups

• Focus Group 1
• Promotion of innovation in SMEs
• Focus Group 2
• Academic-Business Links and Innovation Culture
• Focus Group 3
• Clusters and Innovation Financing

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New RIS projects Focus Groups
Three RIS Focus Groups

• Focus Group 1
• Promotion of innovation in SMEs
• Focus Group 2
• Academic-Business Links and Innovation Culture
• Focus Group 3
• Clusters and Innovation Financing

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RIS Focus Group 3 Clusters and Innovation
Financing
Key topics

• Regional clusters as drivers of innovation and
  economic development
• Public support to the establishment and
  development of innovative clusters
• Regional needs for innovation financing
• Sources and solutions of innovation financing

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RIS Focus Group 3 Clusters and Innovation
Financing
Member regions
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RIS Focus Group 3 Clusters and Innovation
Financing
Meeting 1 Brussels, 29 May 2006

• RIS projects as a basis for support to the
  establishment and development of innovative
  clusters
• Cluster establishment
• Networks of innovation service providers
  supporting clusters
• Development of a regional cluster policy

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RIS Focus Group 3 Clusters and Innovation
Financing
Meeting 2 Location(?), Winter 2007

• Sources and solutions for regional innovation
  financing
• Regional programmes for innovation financing
• Public-private collaborations for innovation
  financing
• Matching entrepreneurs and investors

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Clusters a popular subject

• Cluster 199,000,000 hits
• Innovative clusters 55,300 hits
• (10 May 2006)

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Clusters in RIS projects

• The majority of IRE regions are working with
  innovative clusters...
• ... and the interest is growing.
• Example
• 2 of 18 RITTS projects 1994-1996 included
• a cluster dimension
• 12 of 16 RIS-NAC projects 2001-2004 included
  measures and actions on the establishment and
• development of innovative clusters

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IRE Thematic Network

• ACENET Accelerating the establishment of
  clusters
• 2001-2003
• 11 member regions
• Focus
• Development of processes and methodologies to set
  up and manage clusters
• Activities and results
• Good practice identified related to management,
  financing, strategic partnerships, training,
  marketing
• Supported the launching of a new cluster in a
  member region
• Further information on the IRE website

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IRE Subgroup

• Regional clusters as innovation drivers
• 2004-2006
• 13 member regions
• Topics
• Clusters as tools in the regional innovation
  system
• Cluster behaviour and culture
• Cluster management
• Proposals for regional policies
• Further information on the IRE website

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IRE subgroup - reviews

• Design of cluster initiatives - an overview of
  policies and praxis in Europe
• Emergence, identification and mapping of
  clusters - review report
• An overview of Cluster Policies and Clusters in
  the New Member States of the European Union
• How to get started - Going from cluster mapping
  to actual implementation

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IRE Secretariat contact details

• IRE Secretariat
• Lena Mårtensson
• 2b rue Nicolas Bové
• L-1253 Luxembourg
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• E-mail l.martensson_at_innovating-regions.org
• www.innovating-regions.org