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Industrial clusters as drivers of the European economy: results from the 2020 European Panorama Report

The European Observatory for Clusters and Industrial Change has published the 2020 edition of the European Panorama of Clusters and Industrial Change . The report presents an overview of how clusters contribute to the competitiveness of the European economy. It analyses cluster strength across 51 exporting industry sectors in Europe and identifies 2,950 regional industrial clusters. These industrial clusters account for almost one in four European jobs (61.8 million jobs or 23.4% of total employment) and about half of total employment in exporting industries (50.3%). The majority of the 51...
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  • Apr 02, 2020
  • alina danielescu

Smart guide to cluster policy monitoring and evaluation published

The European Observatory for Clusters and Industrial Change published valuable guidance for cluster policy-makers. It shows how to better monitor results and strategically evaluate policies and programmes set up to support the development of industrial clusters and the competitiveness of its firms. The new smart guide to cluster policy monitoring and evaluation (also attached) develops a common framework, reviews indicators, methodological approaches and tools. It also provides numerous concrete good practice cases from eight different European countries to illustrate proposed options for...
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  • Mar 30, 2020
  • alina danielescu

Trends in European clusters: results from the 2019 European panorama, trends and priority sectors reports published

The European observatory for clusters and industrial change just published a series of reports that give an overview of the European cluster landscape, why these regional concentrations of related industries matter, and which recent trends drive industrial transformations. The European panorama of clusters and industrial change presents an overview of how clusters contribute to the competitiveness of the European economy. It analyses cluster strengths and development trends with a focus on 10 cross-sectoral, so-called emerging industries. These comprise advanced packaging, biopharmaceuticals...
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  • Jan 28, 2020
  • alina danielescu

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

Peer2Scale-Health - Design Options Paper

The Peer2Scale-Health project has published it's final report - a Design Options Paper (DOP) - following the conclusion of activities in May 2020. Peer2Scale-Health was a 12-month peer-learning action by four regional health innovation agencies acting as clusters and providing specific innovation support services to their network of health SMEs. The partners were Eurasanté (Hauts-de-France), BioM (Bavaria), Biocat (Catalonia) and lifetech.brussels (Brussels). Within the Horizon 2020 programme, the project was funded as an INNOSUP project to enable peer learning of innovation agencies for...
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  • Aug 03, 2020
  • Lee Gibson

European Construction Sector Observatory: Improving the human capital basis

The European Construction Sector Observatory (ECSO) has updated its 2017 report 'Improving the human capital basis'. Including data gathered up to January 2020, it provides insights on the construction sector’s workforce, asserting that the sector will need one million new and replacement workers by 2025. The analytical report ‘Improving the human capital basis’ (March 2020) also says that it is estimated that, by 2030, the employment in the European Union (EU) construction sector will increase by 4.3%. Additionally, the skills needed in construction are likely to change to meet the demands...
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  • Jul 16, 2020
  • Lee Gibson

Global trends and insights in healthy food 2020

In the search to meet the expectations of their consumers, companies annually forecast the trends that will guide purchasing decisions. The impact of COVID-19 on them has been noticeable and, for this reason, the Galician Food Cluster (Clusaga) has analyzed how they have been affected. According to GlobalData data, sales in 2018 of foods with health benefits reached almost 800 billion euros globally, of which 20% corresponded to functional products. However, with the forecast of major declines in global economies for the coming year and with an eye to health, foods associated with the concept...
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  • Jun 23, 2020
  • Lee Gibson

Government Procurement opportunities for EU Companies in Canada

The Canada- European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (“CETA)” makes it possible for EU-based companies to participate in government procurement processes in Canada, not only to the general procurement for federal departments and ministries, but also, to those of the provinces and territories. Companies interested in contracting with the government of Canada through CETA need to understand the rules and requirements currently in place that are administrated separately by federal and provincial governments. One of the biggest barriers to accessing CETA opportunities, is the...
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  • Jun 05, 2020
  • alina danielescu

Lombard inter-cluster collaboration in support to the transition towards Circular Economy

On May 5th Lombardy Region has officially approved The Lombardy Roadmap for Research and Innovation on Circular Economy which is providing a framework for the development of a sustainable, low carbon, resource efficient and competitive strategy for the transition to a more circular economy in the Lombardy Region, under a smart specialization perspective. Lombardy Region introduced Circular Economy as one of the main drivers of regional economic, environmental and social development. According to the Roadmap, the shift towards a circular model will follow a mixed technology-pushed and a market...
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  • May 27, 2020
  • alina danielescu

Critical industrial applications: report on current policy measures and policy opportunities

The European Commission (EC) has defined Artificial Intelligence (AI) as one of the most strategically important technologies of the 21st century, and ‘a Europe fit for the digital age’ is one of six headline ambitions for the current EC cycle. On 19 February 2020, the EC presented its ‘Digital Package’, i.e. a white paper on AI (EC2020a), currently open for public consultation, and the European Data Strategy (EC 2020b). The EC has also published a new industrial policy (EC 2020c) and SME strategy (EC 2020d) on 10 March 2020, and is expected to unveil an updated skills agenda, as well as a...
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  • May 27, 2020
  • alina danielescu

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