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Policy Briefings For 10 European Regions

The European Observatory for Clusters and Industrial Change (EOCIC) has provided customised advice on modern cluster policy in support of industrial modernisation to 10 regions in industrial transition. The services were funded by the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW), as part of the work of the EOCIC. The regions were selected as a result of an open call for expression of interest, published and assessed by the Commission services. The aim of the work by the EOCIC for 10 regions in industrial transition has been to define a set of actions...
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  • Nov 05, 2019
  • eccp

The Smart Guide to Cluster Policy - a tool for cluster policy makers and stakeholders

The Smart Guide to Cluster Policy is a new tool for policy-makers and practitioners to support industrial modernisation, SME growth and smart specialisation. The Guide was presented at the Smart Regions conference on 2 June 2016, and is the latest publication in the series of Guidebooks on supporting SME policy through structural funds. The new Smart Guide to Cluster Policy is a practical guide targeting regional authorities and stakeholders interested in "how to make better use of clusters for promoting regional industrial modernisation, supporting the growth of SMEs and encouraging smart...
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  • Oct 24, 2019
  • alina danielescu

European Commission and OECD publish recommendations to help EU countries and regions achieve industrial transition

The European Commission and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) present a report on an initiative launched in 2017 to help 12 EU regions and Member States achieve industrial transition and hold their own a globalised economy. Commission experts diagnosed what was holding back job creation and growth in these areas. They worked with national and regional authorities on long-term development strategies based on their areas of competitive strength – their ‘ smart specialisation ’ assets. These strategies encompassed social fairness, economic modernisation and climate...
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  • Nov 17, 2019
  • alina danielescu

Skills for Industry Strategy - Promoting online training opportunities for the workforce in Europe

The report written by PwC EU Services reveals the role of online training in implementing new approaches matching SMEs' needs and realities in a digital world. The challenges SMEs face today related to the digital transformation of the economy, new regulatory and market requirements demanding a sigificant shift in their environmental footprints to achieve the UN sustainability targets by 2030, with significant expected impact on the skills of the workforce, have to be addressed while also considering the budget constraints, limited capacity, fierce competition for talent and extreme time...
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  • Oct 31, 2019
  • alina danielescu

Skills for Industry - Skills for Smart Industrial Specialisation and Digital Transformation

The brochure prepared by PwC EU Services, as part of the Skills for Smart Industrial Specialisation and Digital Transformation project for the Executive Agency for Small and Medium Enterprises (EASME) and the Directorate General for Industry, Growth & Internal Market (DG GROW) of the European Commission is a contribution to building a shared vision and strategy on skills for industry. Going through a state-of-play analysis on smart industrial specialisation and digital transformation and in particular on high-tech T-shaped skills in Europe, with a series of key findings resulting form the...
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  • Oct 30, 2019
  • alina danielescu

Skills for Industry: Scaling-up Best practices and re-Focusing Programmes and Incentives

The publication, prepared by empirica GmbH on behalf of EASME under the service contract “High-Tech Skills for Europe – Scaling-up Best Practices and re-Focusing Funding Programmes and Incentives” ( https://leadership2019.eu/ ), analyses the funding models of education and training programmes targeting the workforce at national and EU levels and the synergies between the different instruments, with a view to identify best practices. Scaling up the best practices will make them more successful and impactful, serving for improving funding programmes and incentives in the future. The presented...
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  • Oct 28, 2019
  • alina danielescu

Clusters in the Circular Economy

"At least 250 green clusters in Europe are daily pushing the green transition forward. Helping companies to access the newest knowledge, testing new green business ideas and developing new green innovations. All of this accelerating, changing and supporting European businesses to be more focused on the way forward for a more sustainable world with better preservation of resources and environment.", says Dr. Ulla Engelmann, Head of Unit Advanced Technologies, Clusters and Social Economy at DG GROW, European Commission in the foreword to the brand-new study produced by Cluster Excellence...
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  • Oct 28, 2019
  • alina danielescu

EREK report — The implementation of the circular economy in Europe: Perspectives of EU industry cluster managers and regional policymakers

In the EU Action Plan for the Circular Economy, the European Commission defines circular economy as follows: “In a circular economy the value of products and materials is maintained for as long as possible; waste and resource use are minimised, and resources are kept within the economy when a product has reached the end of its life, to be used again and again to create further value”. The circular economy provides economic opportunities, but SMEs still face many obstacles. Shifting to a circular economy requires the involvement of many actors across existing industrial value chains and...
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  • Nov 05, 2019
  • Lucia Seel

EOCIC: The Second Progress Report on the European Strategic Cluster Partnerships

The second “Progress Report on the European Strategic Cluster Partnerships ”, prepared by the European Observatory for Clusters and Industrial Change (#EOCIC), is now available. This report aims to provide an overview of the results of the second assessment to the second generation of European Strategic Cluster Partnerships for Going International (ESCP-4i). This report also comprises the first analysis of the European Strategic Cluster Partnerships for smart specialisation investments (ESCP-S3). For the development of this report, the Observatory conducted an online survey among the ESCP-4i...
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  • Sep 18, 2019
  • alina danielescu

EOCIC: The Smart Guide to entrepreneurship support through clusters

How can clusters boost entrepreneurship? How can entrepreneurship policy makers make better use of clusters? What can be learned from good practices about supporting start-ups and scale-ups sustainably through clusters? What are the Do’s and Don'ts for cluster and entrepreneurship policy-makers? The purpose of this Smart Guide is to provide guidance to cluster policy makers and cluster managers in designing and implementing programmes that accelerate the creation of start-ups, spin-offs and scale-ups in emerging industries and in specific value chains. By focusing on innovative...
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  • Aug 29, 2019
  • alina danielescu

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