Automotive cluster Western Slovakia

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Automotive cluster Western Slovakia Cluster
initiative
Dr. Stefan VRATNY BIC Bratislava, RIS Trnava
RIS Focus Group meeting, Brussels 29/05/2006
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RIS Trnava

• Initiation of cluster of innovative SMEs in
  automotive sector as one of the RIS Trnava goals
• Initiative of
• BIC Bratislava (200 automotive clients, 6 years
  active involvement in this area)
• Slovak university of technology
• Trnava Self-Governing Region and the City of
  Trnava
• Financial institutions selected banks and VC
  funds
• Supported by the European Commission
• Implementation phase use of EU SF money

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General situation

• Production of more than 1 million cars a year in
  the Slovak Republic from 2010
• OEMs turnover ca. 18 billion (VW, PSA and KIA)
• Auto-suppliers turnover ca. 12 billion
• 14 OEMs in a circle of 500 km around Bratislava
  with yearly production of 4 million cars
• Critical mass of automotive suppliers in Western
  Slovakia few hundreds of supplying companies
• Region of Trnava has all prerequisites to become
  a centre of proposed cluster covering whole
  Western Slovakia (incl. regions of Trnava,
  Bratislava, Nitra and Trencin)

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Cluster objectives

• Increase of competitiveness of regional
  automotive suppliers and creation of added value
  within the companies and within the region
• Creation and sustainment of jobs in the region
• Abidance of automotive suppliers in region even
  after OEMs potential leave
• Decrease of OEMs logistic costs

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Cluster services1

• Marketing support
• Cluster website of all members offering their
  products and services
• Networking with members of other ACs, support in
  exhibitions
• Access to customers
• Organising of purchasing days with system
  suppliers and OEMs
• Networking of Tiers 1, Tiers 2 and Tiers 3
  support in supply chain developing
• Access to finance
• Access to RD funds, structural funds, equity
  funds and loans
• Access to RD
• TUs, Slovak Academy of Sciences, European FP RTD
  programmes
• Technology transfer - TT
• TT among supply companies
• TT from RD institutes and technical universities
• Transnational TT, support through Innovation
  Relay Centres Network

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Cluster services2

• Access to suppliers
• Support in purchasing of products and services
• Common purchase of materials, services and goods
• Access to workforce
• Recruitment and qualification (training) of
  workforce
• Attraction of FDI from the automotive sector into
  the region
• Search for proper investors
• Services for foreign investors
• Preparation activities with local and regional
  bodies
• Joint Ventures creation support
• Networking with clusters from other European
  regions
• Networking of member companies
• Sharing common actions and manufacturing
  capabilities

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Cluster initiative preparation

• Concept proposal concept, structure and
  sustainability of the cluster
• Proposal of cluster services
• Presentation of cluster concept and interviews
• Concept presentation to OEMs and automotive
  suppliers
• Questionnaires distribution and interviews with
  OEMS and suppliers Tiers 1, Tiers 2 and Tiers 3
• Creation of database of automotive companies in
  the Slovak Republic
• Implementation phase
• Cluster management selection and training
• Common activities with ACVR
• EU SF exploitation for cluster implementation
• Creation of prerequisites for cluster
  sustainability

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CE dimension and networking

• Target groups
• Tiers 2 and Tiers 3 suppliers organised in the
  cluster
• Tiers 1 and OEMs as cluster users
• Region of Western Slovakia
• CENTROPE region
• CE dimension
• Production of ca. 4 million cars a year in a
  circle of 500 km around Bratislava
• Co-operation with other clusters
• Austria ACVR, AC Styria, AC Upper Austria
• Hungary PANAC
• Czech Republic, Poland, Germany (Saxony and
  Bavaria)

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Kontakt
Dr. tefan VRÁTNY Zochova 5 81103
Bratislava tel [phone] fax 421 2
5441 7522 e-mail vratny_at_bic.sk www.bic.sk