ACENET

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• ACENET
• Progress and outcomes
• Review of year 1
• Ulf Moström, inno
• 2003-05-15

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Do you remember ACENET?

• Main objectives
• the development of processes and methodologies to
  set up and manage clusters and networks
• to provide business chances for SMEs within and
  among the clusters

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Do you remember ACENET?

• Participating Regions

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Overview of activities

• 5 Network events (3 to go!)
• 8 Arranging regions
• 15 (approx.) different clusters presented
• 2 newsletters
• 1 marketing folder (1800 copies)
• 1 Homepage (www.clusterlink.com)
• 6 case studies
• 2 specific workshops (cluster communication)
• gt 10 bilateral activities (e.g. business
  exchange, participation at conferences) at 6
  bilateral meetings
• 4 formal bi/tri-lateral projects
• 1 joint proposal (ETI, SSA CARD)

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Network events
Aluminiumriket ID Skaraborg
Plastics Valley
Styria Podravje
Rhone-Alpes
Veneto Friuli-Venezia Giulia
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Cooperation opportunities
X Existing Cluster v Other sector of
strong interest
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Newsletters

• 2 newsletters
• 6 planned
• Available for download
• 400 copies of each
• printed and distributed

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Case studies

• Events are documented in case studies Good
  practice in cluster management
• 5 completed case studies are downloadable, the
  6th is ready soon

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Case studies - structure

• Hot Topics
• Communication
• Company-to-company interaction
• Public-to-company interaction
• Financing
• Management

• Typology
• Rationale / Background
• Members
• Cluster Themes
• Stakeholders
• External Assets

• Establishment phases
• Summary

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Specific workshops

• Two workshops on Cluster Communication
• Oslo in February
• Graz in May
• One further workshop is planned

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Study of cluster communication tools
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Bilateral activities

• Business contact activities
• Intermediary organisation exchange
• Key note speakers
• Conferences and fairs

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Formal follow-on projects

• Innovation management project co-ordinated by the
  University of Leoben with participation from
  Aluminiumriket and EIC Veneto
• Innovation methodology project co-ordinated by
  among others AREA Science Park and University of
  Leoben
• Development project of science parks with among
  others SFG and AREA Science Park
• A wood sector development project with
  participants from EIC Veneto and University of
  Leoben
• Heavy trucks supplier cooperation between IDS
  (VOLVO) and Rhone Alpes (Renault)
• Project proposal for a specific support action
  within ETI of the Research and Innovation
  sub-programme

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Up-coming activities

• Joint ACENET-METROPOLIS event in Oslo in June
• 3rd workshop on cluster communication
• Open ACENET event at the Competitiveness
  Institute global cluster conference in Gothenburg
  in September!
• ACENET workshop at the conference
• North Moravia and Silesia region a chosen
  case study
• Final event in Schwarzwald in October

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Lessons so far

• ACENET has been very practical and pragmatic,
  seeing and learning. Maybe more time for
  talking is needed.
• All participants are profiting
• less developed regions have gained valuable
  experience
• experienced regions have established business
  contacts
• (Important to start with experienced clusters
  though)
• Further cooperation is desirable after the project