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Stimulating transsectoral innovation in mature clusters
13th TCI Global Conference, Delhi NRC 2010Session 1.3: Mature Clusters
Frank EetgerinkDevelopment Agency East Netherlands (Oost NV)
Development Agency East Netherlands Oost NV
Oost NV is an agency of the Ministry of Economic Affairs that focuses its activities and projects on strengthening and stimulating the economy of in the East of the Netherlands
Shareholders: Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture & Innovation Province of Gelderland Province of Overijssel
Total of approximately 75 employees
Offices in Arnhem and Enschede
Activities divided in four parts Regional Development & Innovations Business Environment Foreign Investments PPM Oost (Participation Company East Netherlands NV)
Government Agency, all activities confidential and free of charge
≈ 170 Million Customers
within 300 Miles
≈ 244 Million Customerswithin 600 Miles
The Netherlands in Europe
The Netherlands has about 16 million inhabitants. But, more importantly: approximately 160 million people live within a 300-mile radius of the Netherlands.
Access to such commercial and industrial centres such London, Paris, Brussels, Frankfurt and Hamburg, and the Ruhr Valley, is just a few hours' drive from Amsterdam.
Europe is a large consumer and industrial market and home to the world’s largest trading block (60% of world trade).
The Netherlands is member of the European Union.
R&D Clusters in East Netherlands
Europe’sEurope’s
Golden Triangle for Golden Triangle for
Food, Health and Food, Health and
TechnologyTechnologyAmsterdam
Rotterdam
Food R&D in the Netherlands
The Netherlands
€ 47 bln Euro (10% of GNP) 700,000 jobs 2nd worldwide exporter of agrifood
products Export = € 23 bln Euro/yr
FoodValley
100 miles
225 miles
Strategies to (re)vitalize mature clusters
Increase efforts in existing strategies Strenghten cluster organisation Food Valley Campus development Attract new businesses
Enlarge boundaries of the cluster Align regional policy with national and EU Open up networks, open innovation Visualise qualitative mapping of business networks Share facilities like equipment and incubators
Enlarge domain of development through increasing quality of the environment (e.g. FoodValley Ambition 2020)
Housing, recreation Urban amenities Accessibility (transport and connection to general public) Multi stakeholder regional support, increase visibility
Regional branding, grounded story telling connecting networks and domains Societal Challenges as market driven innovation programs Stimulate transsectoral innovations (other clusters/domains)
Can Clusters ‘freeze’ the System?
Clusters start off, grow, institutionalize, start defending existing interests When to change en who decides? New clusters are born, mostly below radar at early stage
Backing winners, picking winners?
A Way out? Related variety & cross over's
Red Medtech Highway Biobased Economy Sports, food, life style (gezonde mens)
Societal Needs: “De Gezonde Mens” & “Feed the World”
Cluster Life Cycle
From The Cluster Policies Whitebook, Andersson, Schwaag-Serger, Sörvik, Wise Hansson, 2004
More: Process on a Chip, Food Applications, Prisma & Partners
Creating Knowledge Combinations
Why Knowledge Combinations? (aka Transsectoral Innovations) The Power of Heterogenous Networks Building Knowledge Combinations Example: Process on a Chip Revitalizing Clusters
• Science has a tendency to ongoing specialization• Start ups usually start from a single discipline in science • SME don’t have time, money or staff to explore knowledge
areas beyond the horizon of their own specialization• Even large companies cannot explore the full field of science
There is a large potential in creating and exploring new combinations of knowledge, resulting in heterogenous networks
Why Knowledge Combinations?
• Contacts between university and companies follow the boundaries of disciplines
• Intercompany contacts are mainly based on a single shared knowledge area
• Drivers for innovation and growth are generated by a single discipline
• Homogenous networks live in isolation from each other
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• New contacts between universities by actively creating new combinations of science disciplines
• Impulses for new research• New intercompany contacts develop
as networks are combined and merge
Heterogenous Networks
Building Knowledge Combinations
Knowledge combinations hardly form spontaneously, so…
you need to create !
Identify the high level researchers at university Assess their capability to look far beyond their discipline Make a map with triplets of unlinked scientists Imagine the science and innovations that such triplets may generate Find potential benefits for companies (knowledge, applications) Probe the willingness to cooperate (scientists and large companies) Prepare meetings to set up a joint innovation agenda Set up organizational structure and procedures
Agrofood applicationsOrganic synthesis
Miniature sensor devices
BiomembranesTissue engineeringDisease control
Miniature power plants
Genome analysis
Disposables
Combination-driven Research leads to many new Applications
Example: the NEW Triangle
For the Gelderland / Overijssel region in The Netherlands, a comprehensive Knowledge Map was prepared
The Knowledge Map covered the expertise of 30 top level research groups at the universities of Nijmegen, Enschede and Wageningen
Fourteen new knowledge combinations were identifiedOne of them is Process on a Chip
Example: Process on a Chip*
Goal: screen, analyze, synthesize and manufacture compounds on a single chip.
Very efficient, precise and sustainable processing
Applicable for a wide variety of compounds Strong reduction of time-to-markt Cutting edge technology for food
compounds, pharmaceuticals, contamination detection and health monitoring
Combines: chip design, organic chemistry, biosynthesis, microfluidics, sensor technology, process technology
Current Status of Process on a Chip
5 Universities involved 10 Companies (multinationals and SME) SME platform uniting participation of SME 20 projects started after tender procedures International cooperation Budget 8,5 M euro New industry-industry relations have developed Embedded in national and international programs
One time only
One out of fourteen combination topics taken Stop after one pilot program
Why? Started from knowledge, without up front guarantee of company
commitment Existing political paradigm: demand driven innovation policy Risks not predictable
Revitalizing Clusters and Knowledge Combinations
Creating new knowledge combinations is a powerful mechanism
to revitalize existing clusters:
It makes use of existing strengths and (homogenous) networks It gives an impuls to these networks: new knowledge, new contacts, new
inspiration and new applications It gives a natural focus for innovation efforts, concentrating on cutting edge
technologies and finding new niches It serves the interests of large companies, SME and start ups
Competencies for collaboration
From The Cluster Policies Whitebook, Andersson, Schwaag-Serger, Sörvik, Wise Hansson, 2004
Regional (economic) System
Complex (adaptive) system We as practioners and policymakers do not fully understand the system in
all its complexity Pattern recognition
System of multiparty collaborations
More information
Development Agency East Netherlands (Oost NV)
Frank Eetgerink
Senior Project Manager - Regional Development & Innovation
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: +31 26 384 42 22
Internet: www.oostnv.com
@eetgerink
http://nl.linkedin.com/in/frankeetgerink