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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...
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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...
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Social Business Initiative (SBI) follow up: Cooperation between social economy enterprises and traditional enterprises

The study “Social Business Initiative (SBI) follow up: Co-operation between social economy enterprises and traditional enterprises” commissioned by the Executive Agency for Small and Medium Enterprises (EASME), investigates the various forms of co-operation between social economy enterprises (SEEs)...
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Interview with Christian Rangen, international advisor on strategy, transformation and cluster development

Interview with Christian Rangen, international advisor on strategy, transformation and cluster development. Extensive experience with cluster and Supercluster projects in Asia, Europe and Norway. Business School Faculty and author of Building Innovation Superclusters (report) and Innovation...
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A vision for the European Industry until 2030

In December 2017 the European Commission established The Industry 2030 high level industrial roundtable, consisting of 20 experts selected following an open call for applications, to provide independent advice on future EU industrial policy action. On 24/07/2019 DG GROW published the final report of...
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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...
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New report: 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...
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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...
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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...
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European Cluster Conference 2019 students' report

Creating a blog on the European Cluster Conference and feeding it live – this was our task during the two days we spent in Bucharest. Quite challenging for three students without any experience in web design. But teamwork, enthusiasm and effort made it possible: in about one week we learned how to...
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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...
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Gender equality, diversity, and inclusion in innovation: Roundtable summary report

In Gender equality, diversity, and inclusion: Roundtable summary report, The Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity presents the challenges of incorporating gender equality, diversity, and inclusion into clusters in Canada, particularly into the five Superclusters, as well as a number of...