Fréderic Miribel, Invest in Lyon

Clusters and Business in Lyon

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Clusters and Business in LyonFrederic Miribel – Invest in Lyon / Bogota, November 2017

MOST ATTRACTIVE METROPOLIS FOR INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS INVESTMENT

#19th IN THE WORLD

#7th IN EUROPEIBM/EY/PWC 2015/2016

Number of new companies setting up a branch

Number of new jobs from those companies

CLUSTERS ARE NATURALLY ABOUT BUSINESS

« CLUSTERS ARE CRITICAL MASSES – IN ONE PLACE –

OF UNUSUALCOMPETITIVE SUCCESS

IN PARTICULARFIELDS »

(M. PORTER -1998)

- KNOWLEDGE- RELATIONSHIPS- MOTIVATION

MAKING

MORE PRODUCTIVE USEOF INPUTS

AND THAT DISTANT RIVALSCANNOT MATCH

WITHIN

THE WBOB PROCESS OF BUSINESS & CLUSTERS

BETWEEN OUTSIDE BEYOND

MOTIVATION Local Pride Diversify Expand Lead

RELATIONSHIPS Network Collaboration Import-Export Global Busines

KNOWLEDGE Visibility

Cross-

Fertilization Innovation Anticipation

THE WBOB PROCESS OF BUSINESS & CLUSTERS

WITHIN BETWEEN OUTSIDE BEYOND

chemicals

Textile weaving

Heavy trucks

Automobile parts

Aeronautical parts

Pharmaceutical

Dermocosmetics

HVC

Foods

e

1500s - Silk woven textiles

KNOW WHERE YOUR CLUSTERS ARE COMING FROM

BRAND YOUR

ECOSYTEM,

NOT ONLY

YOUR

CLUSTERS

LYON IS INVENTING TOMORROW’S TRANSPORT

Navya, the robotic shuttleI This driverless minibus adopted Lyon

and in more and more places in the

world (Switzerland, Australia,…)

I In 9 months, this autonomous vehicle

has been entirely reworked with part of

the original R&D team

The TRANSPOLIS

projectI Passenger and freight transport

technology experimentation platform

I One-of-a-kind in France

I Confirmed since end of 2014

1st bike sharing system in 2005

3 car-sharing systems set up in

Lyon and operational in 2015,

with priority given to the use of

electric vehicles

Launch of the OPTIMOD and

ONLYMOOV servicesI Real time traffic information and

forecasts to make getting around the city

even easier

BEYOND CLUSTERS: CITY COMPTETITION

CLUSTERS AS BUSINESS UNITS?

200 CLUSTERS IN FRANCE

(~700,000 COMPANIES INVOLVED)

WHAT FUTURE?

SURVEY OF OVER 150 CLUSTERS BY:

~

! €$

THANK YOU!

CONCLUSION

Clusters are all about business

Clusters are movies, not pictures

The business flow should lead to a stage beyond cluster where:

• The Ecosystem becomes the selling point

• City competition takes the lead

• Clusters are becoming Business units

Frédéric Miribel

miribel@investinlyon.com