Projects
1. ChemClust
ChemClust is a project of cooperation with the objective to improve the effectiveness of regional development policies in the area of innovation and cluster policies for the chemical sector. 10 chemical regions from 7 Member States work together by means of interregional cooperation and exchange of best-practice.
2. IN2WOOD
IN2WOOD fosters the development of research‐driven clusters in the European forest sector by networking and exchanging knowledge. Stakeholders of the partner regions are cooperating actively to establish new contacts to forest regions in South Eastern Europe. The consortium includes researchers, business experts and forest authorities. Our up-to-date networking activities, project outcomes, and best practice examples will be published on this page regularly.
The business and geographical clusters have proved to be an effective regional economic development tool, in particular in peripheral/less competitive areas, where the concentration of interconnected businesses, suppliers and associated institution in specific fields increases their productivity, drives the innovation processes and leads to stimulation of new businesses. The project CLUSTER-CORD builds on this premise and focuses on promotion of the exchange of best practices in cluster management, as well as the cooperation among clusters from the same thematic field but different geographical origin, through the creation of so called “meta-clusters”.
4. CNCB
The goal of the CNCB project is to help clusters and cluster managers to improve their management skills in order to optimize the resources and to find new development and cooperation opportunities in the Central Europe area.
5. CreaClust
The primary aim of the project is to establish a cross-border (Zlín-Trenčín), creative industry-based network to facilitate long-term cooperation.
In connection with the main goal and defined areas of the project, the following specific objectives will have to be fulfilled:
- Map and analyze the current situation and creative industry development potential (including economic) in border regions specified in the project, including statistical quantification of the regions creativity index.
- Select the most promising creative industry sectors, and obtain from these sectors appropriate companies, organizations and institutions for cooperation and networking in a so called Triple Helix structure (academic, public and business spheres).
6. CluStrat
CluStrat aims at maintaining and improving the competitiveness of clusters in the CENTRAL EUROPE co-operation area, by developing new strategic policy approaches on how to render clusters even more capable to face and live up to the challenges posed by new markets. A strategy on new cluster concepts in support of emerging economic sectors, cross-technologies and cross-sectoral themes will be developed and tested in pilot actions.
In the strategy development challenges and potentials for clusters, which will be coming up through emerging markets will be focused. Key topic is linking traditional clusters with emerging industries. Furthermore crosscutting issues like gender in innovation, technology/knowledge transfer and internationalisation will be analyzed.
7. C-PLUS
The main project aim is finding the key-elements that could improve a cluster becoming a world-class cluster, and to improve the involved clusters with specific actions.
In order to perform the above mentioned steps, ensure sustainability to the initiative C-PLUS and strive for reaching \"world-class\" performances, project starts with a deep mapping of the peculiarities of several Central European clusters. Mapping methodologies are based on a EU high.The mapping will allow a second step of benchmarking aiming at looking the peculiarities of the various local production systems as well as the composition of the clusters and their linkages with different stakeholders at local and international level. Benchmarking will be implemented through methodological analyses that are able to highlight their competitiveness factors, to make comparisons among these and to let the good practices to be transferred come to light. The outputs will be reports settled up in a web platform and allowing the innovation leaders to be visible.
8. Constructing Regional Advantage: Towards State-of-the-Art Regional Innovation System Policies in Europe?
Globalisation pressures force European regions to enhance their competitiveness. Regions are considered a key level where innovation processes are shaped, coordinated and governed through localized capabilities. Often competitive advantages do not emerge spontaneously, but are the results of collective actions and initiatives taken by firms, research organizations and governments at various levels. Policies for constructing regional advantage cannot be based on one “best practice” model but should reflect the different conditions and problems of the respective regions. These vary between types of Regional Innovation Systems (such as institutionally “thick” or “thin”; networked or fragmented) as well as the dominating knowledge base of local industries (analytical, synthetic, symbolic). So far very little is known about how policies for constructing regional advantage can work in such different settings. The project aims at filling this gap by comparing policy initiatives in different regional, institutional and sectoral settings in seven European countries.
EVENTS
28.5.2012 - 1.6.2012,
Karlstad University
Cluster course - cluster management towards cluster excellence
This course will provide an in-depth perspective in relation to cluster management and developing cluster excellence. This is targeted and designed…
18.4.2012,
Palais Niederösterreich Vienna - Austria
Europan Cluster Conference 2012
The four-in-one event for European Cluster Managers and Policy Makers: Trends and learnings in Cluster Policies and Cluster Initiatives All…
16.4.2012 - 18.4.2012,
Linz/Upper Austria
Cluster Academy 2012
The Cluster Academy shows how successful clusters work, using Clusterland Upper Austria Ltd. as an example and gives an input, how these…
