clusters & innovation ecosystems

Clusters & Innovation Ecosystems

November 21rst, BerlinFrans Nauta

Clusters & Innovation Ecosystems

November 21rst, BerlinFrans Nauta @fnauta

1. Clusters

2. Innovation Ecosystems

3. Lessons learned

1 Clusters

Clusters

• Enough resources and competences amass and reach a critical threshold;

• Giving it a key position in a given economic branch of activity;

• With a decisive sustainable competitive advantage over other places, or even a world supremacy in that field.

Clusters

• Enough resources and competences amass and reach a critical threshold;

• Giving it a key position in a given economic branch of activity;

• With a decisive sustainable competitive advantage over other places, or even a world supremacy in that field.

"There are no low-tech industries,only low-tech firms"

Fred Terman @ Stanford

German clusters

2 Innovation Ecosystems

regional socio-economic & cultural context

knowledge usage

customers suppliers

partners competitors

industry

policyexchange knowledge &

people

(inter)national context

national innovation system

national policy

European Union

international organisations

other regions

knowledge development

knowledgeexchange labour market

research education

regional socio-economic & cultural context

knowledge usage

customers suppliers

partners competitors

industry

policyexchange knowledge &

people

(inter)national context

national innovation system

national policy

European Union

international organisations

other regions

knowledge development

knowledgeexchange labour market

research education

1

regional socio-economic & cultural context

knowledge usage

customers suppliers

partners competitors

industry

policyexchange knowledge &

people

(inter)national context

national innovation system

national policy

European Union

international organisations

other regions

knowledge development

knowledgeexchange labour market

research education

1

2

regional socio-economic & cultural context

knowledge usage

customers suppliers

partners competitors

industry

policyexchange knowledge &

people

(inter)national context

national innovation system

national policy

European Union

international organisations

other regions

knowledge development

knowledgeexchange labour market

research education

1

2

3

regional socio-economic & cultural context

knowledge usage

customers suppliers

partners competitors

industry

policyexchange knowledge &

people

(inter)national context

national innovation system

national policy

European Union

international organisations

other regions

knowledge development

knowledgeexchange labour market

research education

1

2

3

4

regional socio-economic & cultural context

knowledge usage

customers suppliers

partners competitors

industry

policyexchange knowledge &

people

(inter)national context

national innovation system

national policy

European Union

international organisations

other regions

knowledge development

knowledgeexchange labour market

research education

1

2

3

4

5

regional socio-economic & cultural context

knowledge usage

customers suppliers

partners competitors

industry

policyexchange knowledge &

people

(inter)national context

national innovation system

national policy

European Union

international organisations

other regions

knowledge development

knowledgeexchange labour market

research education

regional socio-economic & cultural context

knowledge usage

customers suppliers

partners competitors

industry

policyexchange knowledge &

people

(inter)national context

national innovation system

national policy

European Union

international organisations

other regions

knowledge development

knowledgeexchange labour market

research education

regional socio-economic & cultural context

knowledge usage

customers suppliers

partners competitors

industry

policyexchange knowledge &

people

(inter)national context

national innovation system

national policy

European Union

international organisations

other regions

knowledge development

knowledgeexchange labour market

research education

regional socio-economic & cultural context

knowledge usage

customers suppliers

partners competitors

industry

policyexchange knowledge &

people

(inter)national context

national innovation system

national policy

European Union

international organisations

other regions

knowledge development

knowledgeexchange labour market

research education

regional socio-economic & cultural context

knowledge usage

customers suppliers

partners competitors

industry

policyexchange knowledge &

people

(inter)national context

national innovation system

national policy

European Union

international organisations

other regions

knowledge development

knowledgeexchange labour market

research education

regional socio-economic & cultural context

knowledge usage

customers suppliers

partners competitors

industry

policyexchange knowledge &

people

(inter)national context

national innovation system

national policy

European Union

international organisations

other regions

knowledge development

knowledgeexchange labour market

research education

regional socio-economic & cultural context

knowledge usage

customers suppliers

partners competitors

industry

policyexchange knowledge &

people

(inter)national context

national innovation system

national policy

European Union

international organisations

other regions

knowledge development

knowledgeexchange labour market

research education

regional socio-economic & cultural context

knowledge usage

customers suppliers

partners competitors

industry

policyexchange knowledge &

people

(inter)national context

national innovation system

national policy

European Union

international organisations

other regions

knowledge development

knowledgeexchange labour market

research education

regional socio-economic & cultural context

knowledge usage

customers suppliers

partners competitors

industry

policyexchange knowledge &

people

(inter)national context

national innovation system

national policy

European Union

international organisations

other regions

knowledge development

knowledgeexchange labour market

research education

3 Some lessons learned

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy

in its own way."

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy

in its own way."

clusters

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy

in its own way."

clusterscluster

Ingredientshappy cluster

• Constant high talent-flow

• Highly specialized knowledge

• Rising tide

• 30 minutes travel time

• Policy commitment

• Sophisticated demand

• Lunch instead of lawyers

In general, knowledge is the under-utilized resource in

innovation ecosystems

Thank you for your attention