tci 2015 the evolutionary dimension in cluster policy

The Evolutionary Dimension in Cluster Policy: Emerging Industries and the Role of Clusters

in Sustainable Competitiveness

David Fernández Terreros Basque Country Business Development Agency (SPRI)

Parallel Session 1.4: New Direction in Cluster Policy for Sustainable and Inclusive Competitiveness

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1.4.5 The Evolutionary Dimension in Cluster Policy: Emerging Industries and the Role of Clusters in Sustainable Competitiveness

Traditional Cluster Concept

Spatial Boundaries, Geographic concentration

Sector BoundariesWithin a particular field

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Cluster Typology

CLUSTERS PRIMARILY BASED ON:

Endowment Factorial

EquipmentTechnology

Process Technology

KETs (Global) Value Chain

Product / Service

Customer / User

Eno-clusters Machine-Tool Clusters

Castings Clusters

ICT Clusters Aerospace Clusters

FoodCluster

Baby Cluster

Salmon Clusters

Steelmilling Equipment Clusters

Forgings Clusters

BioClusters Automotive Clusters

Logistics & TransportationClusters

Elderly/Senior Clusters

… … … Nanotech Clusters

… … Luxury Cluster

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New Scenario

Characterised by:• Large Impact, Wide Societal Challenges (Environment, Demography)• Fast pace of Change• Increasingly Global competition (even in traditional sectors),

Where: • Value chains are Globalising • Time to market is shortening• Technologies intersect and KETs are applied to existing industries• The nature of innovation is changing, more user-driven (open and interactive),

global (global knowledge pools) and service oriented (servitization).• New solutions based on technology hybridization and cross-cutting innovations

across conventional sectors’ boundaries are creating new niche market oppor-tunities and emerging industries.

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The Role of Cluster Organisations Beyond Spatial Bound-aries

• In the European context, S3 require trans-border strategies, involving cross-border cluster collaboration based on synergies & complementarities.

• Global competition demands for world-class excellent clusters.

Thus, Cluster Organisations should further:• Engage in dedicated Networking initiatives, to facilitate international link-

ages and collaboration. • Participate in international Consortia of Clusters (e.g European Strategic

Cluster Partnerships-ESCPs) with a joint Internationalisation Strategy to eventually integrating Competitiveness-edge, world-class meta-clusters.

• Aim at upgrading and inserting in Global Value Chains.

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The Role of Cluster Organisations Beyond Sector Boundaries

In this new context, clusters organisations should evolve, be flexible, open & active in the entrepreneurial discovery process, accompanying SMEs to better exploit these emerging blue oceans, helping them to create innovation through collaboration on a networked based approach.

Clusters organisations are policy instruments with potential to address those Challenges through:

• Participative Definition of Cross-Cluster Strategies in Emerging Industries.• Supporting Entrepreneurship in Emerging Industries.• Related Diversification by incorporating KETs.• Cross-Cluster collaboration in Emerging Trends.• Horizontal Domain Integration of Emerging Industry Niches. • Fostering the creation of Testing, Validating and R&D Transferring

Facilities .• Deploying Public-private Partnerships for User-Driven Open Innovation.

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CLUSTER POLICYCluster policies, should be Flexible, Adaptable and evolve to further empower cluster organisations as facilitators:• Prioritising and reinforcing cross-cluster & cross-border orientation.• Enhancing the Role of Clusters creating Emerging Niches &Opportunities and Facili-

tating the conditions for the emergence of new clusters.• Supporting them in strategic cross-border partnerships & internationalisation.• Coordinating with other Departments and Policies in a Joined-Up policy mix.• Acordingly, mobilising other actors into the new domains, in order to consider clus-

ter organisations as a tool for deploying other policies & policy instruments for competitiveness (entrepreneurship, innovation, internationalisation) .

• Redefining & facilitating cluster organisations’ alignment to priority domains.• Upgrading potential & efforts & allocating resources to become world class clusters.• Monitoring & Evaluating Results (outputs, outcomes and impact) as a means of

learning & continuous improvement.

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Cross-Cluster Strategy in Emerging IndustriesBASQUE INDUSTRY 4.0 Strategy piloted around Technology supplying clusters and Technology using clusters:

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Entrepreneurship in Emerging Industries

Another dimension of Cluster sustainability.

• Cluster based Business Angels Initiatives for new ventures.• Facilitating Access of Junior Companies to Cluster Organisations• Promoting Intra-preneurship

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KETs and Related Diversification

Pulper Ideiak Project. Micro, Nano and Biotechnologies applied to a mature market (CELULOSE).

Example: Basque Paper Cluster engaging related technologies Cooperative Re-search Centres (CIC) and 17 companies.

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Cross-Cluster collaboration in Emerging TrendsSEVERAL CLUSTERS engaged in Learning, Acquiring solutions on New market Trends: ECODESIGN

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Horizontal Domain Integration (Additive Manufacturing & Industrial 3D Printing)

Advanced Manufacturing Cluster fosters within the cluster the creation and de-velopment of a new association ADDIMAT.

Integrating new and innovative developments, along and across existing value chains.

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Dedicated Sector Specific Technology & Equipment Testing & Validating InfrastructuresWINDBOX Project• Advanced Testing, Validating and Industrial Subsystems Integration Centre

for the Wind Energy Industry. Promoted by Energy Cluster + 8 member companies.

• Learning for the Administration: how to create a specific instrument to fi-nancially support such a new initiative.

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Dedicated Sector Specific Advanced Manufacturing CentresCFA Aeronautics• Transferring basic and applied research results to advanced manufacturing

process. • A PPP project involving HEGAN Basque Aerospace Cluster and AFM Ad-

vanced Manufacturing Technologies Cluster, with 14 companies, the Uni-versity and Basque Country administration.

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Public-private Partnerships for User-Driven Open InnovationDemostrating at large scale the potential impact of innovative solutions to spe-cific challenges.• Large Scale & Near Market Demonstrator Projects to deploy, test, de-risk,

validate and scale-up new technology and service concept solutions.

• Exploiting the transformative power of open & joint innovation to address societal challenges or specific problems.

Last Mile Urban Logistics Living Lab

MLC-ITS & GAIA ICT Clusters withcompanies from bothClusters and the GipuzkoaProvince Government

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정말 감사합니다Thank you very much

Muchas GraciasEskerrik Asko

David Fernández [email protected]

Basque Country Business Development Agency SPRI

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.spri.eus/es/es

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