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High-Tech Skills Industry Report

In the framework of the Skills Agenda for Europe innitiative, the European Commission (DG GROW) with the support of its Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME), launched an initiative to develop an integrated Digital Capability Reference Framework for enterprises to strengthen capabilities to digitally transform businesses. The initiative ran between January 2017 and January 2019, coordinated by Capgemini Consulting in partnership with IDC and empirica. As a publication of the service contract the partners have prepared the report High-Tech Skills Industry - Increasing...
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  • Jul 02, 2019
  • alina danielescu

Building Innovation Superclusters - Economic Development For the 21st Century

"Following the early successes of the Canadian program, the rise of Asian clusters of innovation, the ongoing changes in the Nordics and across Europe, we are likely to see a number of new Innovation Superclusters towards 2030”. That is one of the conclusions of author Christian Rangen and his team, in the new report, Building Innovation Superclusters , that was published this week. ”Building Innovation Superclusters - Economic Development For the 21st Century” has involved hundreds of people across innovation clusters and cluster programs over the past four years. The new report explores...
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  • Jun 19, 2019
  • alina danielescu

Summary Report on Cluster Policy in Regions

The summary report on lessons learnt from fostering modern Cluster Policy in regions in industrial transition summarises the work carried out by EOCIC in the 10 pilot regions in industrial transition and proposes concrete policy proposals tailored to the regions’ needs. The work of EOCIC shows clusters as a key driver for smart specialisation and it indicates how modern cluster policy can help shape regional industrial transition. The pilot regions covered by the report are: Cantabria (Spain), Centre-Val de Loire (France), East & North Finland, Hauts-de-France, Lithuania, North-Middle...
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  • Jun 10, 2019
  • alina danielescu

The Smart Guide for European Strategic Cluster Partnerships (ESCP)

The Smart Guide for European Strategic Cluster Partnerships (ESCP) aims to provide guidance to ESCP on how to develop a successful partnership strategy and on possible actions to achieve joint projects and investments. For that purpose, the Smart Guide presents an overview of the main challenges and specific barriers faced by ESCP, mainly related to the establishment and improvement of partnerships as well as to fostering innovation, cooperation and internationalisation. Considering those challenges, the Smart Guide also provides a set of recommended actions to establish sustainable...
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  • Jun 10, 2019
  • alina danielescu

EU Cluster Programme report

How do European countries and regions support cluster activities? What are the main objectives, measures and target groups of cluster programmes? What do cluster policies in other parts of the world focus on? These and other questions are answered by the analyses of the European Observatory for Clusters and Industrial Change (EOCIC) and its report "Cluster programmes in Europe and beyond". This document investigates cluster support in 29 European and 10 non-European countries as well as in 49 European regions. In-depth analyses of a broad range of cluster programmes across Europe and...
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  • Jun 13, 2019
  • alina danielescu

The Progress Report on the European Strategic Cluster Partnerships

The first “ 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 first results, good practices and lessons learnt achieved by the second generation of European Strategic Cluster Partnerships for Going International (ESCP-4i) during their first months of operation. The Observatory plans to conduct two more editions of the Progress Report, which will also cover the progress of ESCP-4i dual use and ESCP-S3. For the development of this...
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  • Jun 03, 2019
  • alina danielescu

Digitalisation in Tourism. In-depth analysis of challenges and opportunities

The study conducted by Aalborg University, Denmark was commissioned by the European Commission’s Executive Agency for Small and Medium Enterprises (EASME) to examine the challenges and opportunities of digitalisation in tourism and analyses how these affect different stakeholder groups and how they could be addressed. The study gives as well a good overview of the needs of tourism SMEs in different parts of the EU in terms of digital skills and developing on-line services. Drawing from a quantitative survey of 2.897 SMEs, 73 public administrations and 85 professional associations conducted in...
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  • May 22, 2019
  • alina danielescu

Mainstreaming Gender in Cluster Development

Acknowledging the importance of gender equality and the empowerment of women to the vision of the 2030 Agenda for achieving inclusive and sustainable growth around the world, UNIDO strives to systematically adopt a gender perspective throughout the planning and implementation phases of its interventions, from cluster selection to monitoring and evaluation. This paper explores UNIDO’s approach to gender mainstreaming in its Cluster Development Programme by focusing on the critical factors that need to be integrated into a cluster development project, and on the problems and limitations that...
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  • May 10, 2019
  • alina danielescu

REGIONS IN INDUSTRIAL TRANSITION. NO REGION LEFT BEHIND

On 8 May 2019 the European Commission (DG REGIO) published a brochure presenting the first, promising results of the launched pilot actions to support ‘Regions in Industrial Transition’, ’Coal Regions in Transition’ and the creation of new value chains through interregional investment in innovation. The aim is to capitalise on Europe’s strengths: its diversity, dynamism and the willingness of actors at national, regional and local level to test new approaches. The pilot action on "Regions in Industrial Transition" was launched at the beginning of 2018 in order to help regions undergoing...
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  • May 08, 2019
  • alina danielescu

University-Industry Collaboration : New Evidence and Policy Options

Targeting in particular policy makers, "University-Industry Collaboration. New Evidence and Policy Options" presents the main outcomes of the OECD Working Party on Innovation and Technology Policy (TIP) 's project "Assessing the Impacts of the Policy Mix for Knowledge Transfer" conducted in 2017-2018, and contains the main findings and policy recommendations of the project. Building on relevant policy papers issued in 2017-2019 but also on twenty case study contributions, the report discusses challenges and opportunities in assessing the impacts of science-industry knowledge exchange on...
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  • Apr 30, 2019
  • alina danielescu

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