INNOVACC Associació Catalana d'Innovació del sector carni porcí

General Information

Organisation Logo:

The date when the cluster organisation was established:

Saturday, 1 March, 2008

Number of staff in the management team of the cluster organisation :

1-5

Legal form of the cluster organisation:

Non-Profit

Regions:

Cataluña

Cluster Excellence Label:

Bronze Label

Other Label:

Catalonia Clusters program

Membership to other networks/partnerships:

Name	Website
Catalonia clusters	http://accio.gencat.cat/cat/estrategia-empresarial/clusters/catalunya-clusters/
Clusters.cat	http://www.clusters.cat/english/what-is-a-cluster/
AEI - Agrupaciones Empresariales Innovadoras	http://www.minetur.gob.es/PortalAyudas/AgrupacionesEmpresariales/Paginas/Index.aspx

Cluster Management Team:

Name	Surname	Position	Telephone	Email
Eudald	Casas i Vaqué	Cluster Manager	+34972272597	innovacc@olot.cat
Mariona	Pratdesaba i Rovira		+34972272597	innovacc@olot.cat
Sandra	Dalfó i Vivas		+34972272597	innovacc@olot.cat

Link to team description on the cluster's website:

http://www.innovacc.cat/ca/organitzacio/personal-propi

Languages spoken:

Catalan

English

French

German

Spanish

Sectoral and Industrial Focus

Sectoral Industries:

Food Processing and Manufacturing

Technology fields:

Detection and Analysis methods

Food Microbiology / Toxicology / Quality Control

S3 EU priority areas:

Food, beverage & tobacco products

Machinery & equipment n.e.c.

Emerging industries:

Digital Industries

Environmental Industries

Composition of the cluster

Total number of members:

Number of SME members:

Number of larger company members:

Number of research organisations/universities/technology centres:

Number of other ecosystem actors :

Entrepreneurship and scale-up support facilities in the cluster's ecosystem (see "Organisation type"):

Name and link of major players:

Cluster Strategy

Mission/Objectives:

INNOVACC strengths

We are focused in R+D+i

Clear differentiation from traditional sector associations.

We don’t compete with our own associated. We just COOPERATE with them.

Research & Innovation

Continuous and rigorous methodology to identify, prepare and develop projects
Very specific projects (mainly for central part of value chain)
Clear goals for each project
We have to finish each project (without permanent working groups)
Continuous benchmarking coming from each project and its meetings
Finding Grants to encourage our companies

Do you have a formalised strategy?:

Yes

Link:

http://www.innovacc.cat/images/Pla_estrat%C3%A8gic_2016-2019/PLAN_ESTRAT%C3%89GICO_2016-2019_ok_imatges_comprimides_1_pdf.pdf

Do you have a specific strategy focus that addresses internationalisation ?:

Services

Support services provided:

Access to public support (regional/national programmes, innovation vouchers, etc.)

Facilitation of collaboration between members

Periodic Information dissemination

Support of knowledge transfer

Innovation Management / Support of innovation processes (internal, external)

Cooperation Activities

International Cooperation

The main countries targeted by the cluster organisation:

Canada

Our cluster organisation undertook the following international activities to support our members:

Support to collaborative activities/etc.

Trans-national Cooperation

The main countries targeted by the cluster organisation:

Denmark

France

Germany

Support Programmes

Participation in Funded Support Programmes:

Promotion

Success Story / Achievements:

R+D Projects