1 / 22

Where is the role of clusters in the Smart Specialisation Concept seen ?

Where is the role of clusters in the Smart Specialisation Concept seen ?. Inmaculada Periañez Forte II Congreso Nacional Clusters Zaragoza, 18/09/2014. Index. 1. What do we refer to by clusters? 2 . How do cluster function ? 3 . Why are clusters important?

sylvester-mckenzie
Télécharger la présentation

Where is the role of clusters in the Smart Specialisation Concept seen ?

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Where is the role of clusters in the Smart Specialisation Concept seen? Inmaculada Periañez Forte II CongresoNacional Clusters Zaragoza, 18/09/2014

  2. Index • 1. What do we refer to by clusters? • 2. How do cluster function? • 3. Why are clusters important? • 4. Where is the role of clusters in the Smart Specialisation Concept seen? • 5. How can the S3P contribute to the clusters success?

  3. 1. What do we refer to by clusters?

  4. What do we refer to by clusters? • Clusters: Are geographicconcentrations of • interconnected companies, specialised suppliers, service providers, firms in related industries, and associated institutions in particular fields that compete butalsoco-operate (Porter). • Research Intensive Clusters: Research intensive clusters are nascent centres involving more than one research centres and one or more firms (i.e. platforms for long-term research cooperation between science and industry).

  5. Examples The Micro-nanotechnology Cluster of Grenoble, France The High-tech Cluster of Oxfordshire, United Kingdom The Biotechnology Cluster of Vienna, Austria The Life Science Cluster of Medicon Valley, Scandinavia The Engineering Cluster of Dunedin, New Zealand The ICT Cluster of Waterloo, Canada

  6. 2. How do clustersfunction?

  7. How do clustersfunction? • Division of labour in the labour market • Enables firms to obtain specialisedlabour with lower search and training costs and higher productivity • Enables workers to obtain higher wages and increased opportunities to specialise and movefirms. • Division of labour in intermediate supplier industries • Provides customer firms with local access to specialised suppliers of materials and components, finance, marketing and business services and so on.

  8. How do clustersfunction? • Knowledge spillovers: • Such as transfers of knowledge of market opportunities and technologies among agents in the various firms and research organisations located within clusters through a range of formal and informal links. • Identifying new businessopportunitiesbasedon a combination of multi-disciplinaryexchange of knowledge.

  9. 3. Why are clusters important?

  10. Why are clusters important? • Economicbenefits: • Higher competitive and productivity environment: generating new firms and firm expansions, increasing the size of the cluster and strengthening the productivity benefits. • Increasedproductivity, increased wages and profits or price competitiveness of local enterprises.

  11. Why are clusters important? • Politicalinterest. Policyinterventionmaystimulategrowth in clustersby: • Providing information to potentially mobile firms and workers on cluster locations and specialisations. • Offering incentives for investment in clusters and supporting the provision of housing, business premises and other infrastructure in clusters. • Overall, providinggoodframeworkconditions and creating a goodenviroment.

  12. Why are clusters important? • Clusters and theeconomic crisis: • Destruction of firms and jobs. • Severe budgetary constrains. • Increasing the difficulty to access to finance. • Places pressure on policy makers to make the best decisions about investments: • To improve the competitive environment in clusters. • To lay the foundations for future economic and employment growth.

  13. Cluster development support policies and specialisation patterns in selected OECD countries 2012

  14. 4. Where is the role of clusters in the Smart Specialisation Concept seen?

  15. How to start entrepreneurial discovery process Kick-start with consultation in quadruple helix: Detect potential boundary-spanners between different stakeholder / interest groups, new innovative entrepreneurs, hidden champions, or persons with a potential for this is one of the aims of this first step. … See new annex III of RIS3 Guide Research & education public and private research bodies, universities, education and training, science and technology parks, Technology transfer offices, etc. Business manufacturing and services, primary sectors, financial sector, creative industries, social sector, large firms, SMEs, young entrepreneurs, students with business ideas, cluster and business organisations, if relevant at different government levels, agencies e.g. for regional development, business advice, public procurement offices, incubators, etc. Public administration NGOs and citizens’ initiatives related to societal challenges for which innovative solutions would be helpful, consumers associations, Talents! etc. Civil society / Users

  16. 5. How can the S3P contribute to the clusters success?

  17. Launched in June 2011 • Designed to assist regions and countries in developing RIS3 • Managed by JRC-IPTS in Seville • Monitored by a Steering Team incl. DG REGIO, DG CONNECT, RTD, ENTR, EAC, AGRI EU Countries registered: 14 EU Regions registered 151 Non-EU Regions registered: 2

  18. Main activities of S3 Platform in support of the countries/regions preparing RIS3 7. Research agenda 1. The RIS3 methodological Guide & the Digital Agenda Toolbox Eye@RIS3 6. Interactive tools, S3 Newsletter and Website 2. Trans-national learning, Peer Review & thematic workshops 3. Country- and Macro-region events and targeted seminars at IPTS 5. Transregional collaboration 4. RIS3 assessment and support to REGIO desks ; ICT experts

  19. Meetings and networking A) S3 Peer Review workshops • Workshop in Riga (Feb 2014) NATIONAL • Workshop in Novi Sad (April 2014) • Workshop in Portoroz (May 2014) NATIONAL • Workshop in Dublin (July 2014) NATIONAL • B) Thematic workshops • Sparsely populated areas (June, 2014) • Workshop in Lodz (September 2014) • Digital Growth and Smart Specialisation (Lodz, September 2014) • Entrepreneurial discovery process (Pisa, September 2014) • Very different in structure, attendance, focus Targeting RIS3 actors, methodology, common priorities, common regional features

  20. Online tools A) Eye@RIS3 – an online database for RIS3 priorities • Enable Regions and Member States to position themselves, • To find their unique niches • To seek out potential partners for collaboration • Categories are not perfect matches • Approx 130 regions and 800 priorities B) Benchmarkingregional structure • To find reference regions those that share similar structural conditions relevant for innovation-driven development.

  21. Gracias! http://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu Inmaculada.PERIANEZ-FORTE@ec.europa.eu Sources: Where is the role of clusters in the Smart Specialisation Concept seen? JRC, IPTS (17/2/2014) Clusters, Innovation and entrepreneurship (OECD, 2009)

More Related