towards new cluster support schemes
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ClusterAgentur Baden-Württemberg
- Towards a Systematic Cluster Support Scheme -
04. March 2015
CEO
Dr. Gerd Meier zu Köcker
ClusterAgentur Baden-Württemberg
Current and Future Challenges
• Wind energy goes offshore
• Food & packaging advanced packages
•Manufacturing goes Industry 4.0
Industrial Transformation
Processes
• Biotech & Health
• ICT & Medical devices
• Communication technologies &
automotive
Increasing Convergence of
Technologies
•Creative industries
• Digital industries
• Experience industries
Emergence of New Industries
New policies
New support
schemes
Systematic
approaches to
support regional
competitiveness
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Implications
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• Better policies
• Better implementation of RIS / Smart Specialisation Strategies
• Implementation of new policies
• Better cluster support schemes
Cluster PolicyLevel
• Higher professionalisation
• Better services
• New services
• Stronger role / position
• Higher acceptance
Cluster Management
Level
•Roadmapping / Foresight
•Better prepared for future challenges
•Tailor-made transnational cooperation
•Higher efficiency in businessFirm Level
Better
framework
conditions
Better support
of cluster firms
Firms better
prepared for
future business
Why Cluster Management Matters
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Source: Lämmer-Gamp, Meier zu Köcker, Christensen, Clusters are Individuals, 2011
Performance of Cluster Organisations basedon a Traditional Funding Approach
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BW as Hot Spots in Emerging Industries
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Starting conditions
- BW is amongEU hot-spots
- Excellent potential tocreate synergies
- Many matured clusterinitiatives exist
- Challenge: identifying thosecluster initiativeswhich can benefit most
Starting Conditions
110 Cluster initiatives
16.000 Cluster participants
– On average: 150 cluster participants per cluster initiative
– About 76 % SME
FTE in Cluster organisations
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22%
27%
27%
weniger als 0,5 FTE
0,6 - 1 FTE
1,1 - 2,5 FTE
> 2,5 FTE
2006Cluster-Dialog
2008Clusteratlas/-Datenbank
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Development Cluster Support Toolsin BW over Time
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2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
2008/2010Regionaler Cluster-
Wettbewerb
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Support in defining, developing and implementingcluster strategies
Support in developing new business support services forcluster participants
Support of cluster management towards higherprofessionalisation
Governance and assessment of impact ofcluster organisations
Improved international visibility
SupportingClustermanagement Excellence
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Strategydevelopment
New services
Professionalisation
Monitoring impacts
International visibility
New Approaches for Trans-national Strategic Partnerships
Sustainablestrategic
partnerships
Looking forexternal partners
Among clusteractors
Clusters are Driver for Innovation
Implementation of new technology transfer systems within clusters
– Cluster managements to become drivers for initiating innovations within clusterinitiatives
Setting-up of innovation partnerships
– Cluster managers to identify and initiate long-term partnerships with other regional, national or international partners
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Technology-Scouting
– Cluster managements to better identify and predicts relevant trends
– Application of toold (roadmapping etc.)
Cross-Clustering
– Cluster managements to initiate cross-sectoral cooperations
Contact
Dr.-Ing. Gerd Meier zu KöckerCEO
ClusterAgentur Baden-Württemberg
Willi-Bleicher-Straße 19
70174 Stuttgart
Gemany
E-Mail: [email protected]
Tel.: +49 711 123-3034
Further readings:
www.cluster-analysis.org
www.iit-berlin.de
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