Success stories

5 years ago, at the occasion of Semicon Europe in Dresden, we had a first gathering of a group of leading European semiconductor clusters. A new baby was born. Less than a year later, this cooperation was formalised in the European project “Silicon Europe”, aiming at creating a common vision and strategy to strengthen the European semiconductor industry, based on an inter-cluster cooperation model...

October 25th, 2016 The “Silicon Europe Worldwide” project aims at implementing the internationalisation strategy of the Silicon Europe Alliance, part the part of the internationalisation beyond Europe. In this internationalisation strategy, Taiwan and the US had been identified as the primary targets for setting up cluster-to-cluster cooperation, at the benefit of the cluster members. As part of...

The agreement was signed during the 2nd Strategic Meeting of the HT Cluster that was held in Barcelona last 20 and 21 of October The HealthTech Cluster belongs to the Catalonia Cluster Program launched by the agency ACCIO of the Government of Catalonia, which includes 30 other Catalan clusters. The Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council (MassMEDIC) the second biggest medical devices cluster...

On 11 October 2016, the European Commission's yearly RegioStars Awards ceremony took place in Brussels, as part of the European Week of Regions and Cities. This yearly EU-wide competition puts the spotlight on the most innovative and inspiring EU funded projects and illustrates, through concrete real-life examples, how Cohesion Policy supports the creation of economic growth and jobs. In addition...

Catalonia was a pioneer country in terms of cluster policy, starting at 1992. Since then, there’s been a continuous cluster policy for more than 2 decades. One of the main takeaways of this long cluster experience is that cluster managers are a key success factor in a cluster initiative. It’s not only about their background and skills, but also about dedication and motivation. A decade has passed...

After the award for the best cluster and the best cluster manager in 2011, Agricultural Equipment Cluster and its cluster manager were awarded as the best cluster and cluster manager in Croatia by the Croatian Government and the Ministry of of Entrepreneurship and Crafts at the XIX National Counselling on Economy and Entrepreneurship which was held from April 16 -18, 2015 in Petrcane (Zadar)...

Plastipolis took part in the EU-US cluster matchmaking event organized by ECCP on April 25th and 26th during Hannover Messe. It was a great opportunity to meet with US counterparts from Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Kansas. The US have always been a priority for the cluster as this is a target country for most of its members. Plastipolis presented the results of this collaboration during...