gi-Cluster
Greece: Attica
Nikos Vogiatzis
Overview
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About us
gi-Cluster is the first creative industries cluster established Greece. It comprises of small and large companies, academic and research institutions, all involved in the Gaming and Creative Technologies and Applications Industry and forms a domestic, industry-led value-chain developing high-tech, state-of-the art competitive products for the international market, as the sole organized effort to build upon Greece’s unparalleled competitive advantage and leverage the existing talent, targeting particularly the Cultural & Tourism Industries.
Since its establishment, Corallia acts as the gi-Cluster facilitator and orchestrates the design and implementation of all its initiatives and actions, always in alignment with the clusters’ mission to become a world-class, fully operational innovation ecosystem, which will contribute towards elevating Greece in the global competitiveness charts.
In sync with global cluster management standards, initially introduced in Greece by Corallia, the Vision "create locally | compete globally" and the scope of establishing the message "Innovation Designed in Greece” critically determine the cluster’s operation for they form the guiding framework for any activity designed and undertaken within the gi-Cluster.
The offering of guidance and entrepreneurial support to cluster members by the management team seeks to achieve:
- increase of both short and long-term productivity, turnover and export;
- support employment growth via new job creation;
- strengthen international presence and members’ orientation by utilising the strong international network offered by the gi-Cluster facilitator to the entire ecosystem;
- improve competitiveness and business readiness levels.
Cluster composition
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60Cluster Members
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42SME's
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3Large Companies
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14Research Organisations, Universities, Technology Centers
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1Other Ecosystem Actors
Achievements
1. Development & management of the first Gaming and Creative Technologies & Applications co-location hub in Greece, hosting cluster members, offering incubation, business development services and support for growth and networking of cluster members.
2. Nurturing of favorable conditions for the promotion and establishment of collaboration links among cluster members towards joint product development. Several new commercial products have been developed with contribution from 3 or more cluster members that have shared IPR and shared revenue/profits.
3. Cluster internationalisation activities during 2015 such as support to cluster SMEs to participate at leading global sector events in EU (e.g. Game Connection in Paris) and US (e.g. E3 expo in Los Angeles), have generated tangible results, with new customers, new business opportunities and revenue, and new project partnerships for several cluster members.
Management team
Sectorial and industrial focus
Sectoral Industries
Technology fields
S3 EU priority areas
Cross-sectoral industries
Creative Industries
Services
Support services provided
Other (please specify)
Development of human resources, such as staff mobility, access to training
Further information
An integrated portfolio of services addressed to members offers even greater value to their daily operation, covering a wide range of actions with special focus on synergies within the ecosystem, enhancing innovation and extroversion with benefit packages and supporting actions. More specifically:
Research & Networking: Showcasing the profile of cluster members and the identity of the cluster overall, placing the ecosystem dynamically on the international market, through targeted publicity, networking and through the design and implementation of data collection.
Cluster Expansion: Advisory support on specific operational and business development issues, with many opportunities for cooperation with experienced partners and benefits of involvement within a collaborative environment of innovation incubators.
Education & Training: Business acceleration opportunities and the training of scientific and management staff of cluster members through their participation in high quality educational programs and specialized seminars organized with widely acknowledged associates.
Commercial Cooperation: Strengthening of the value chain and the partnerships between members, international presence, expansion into new markets and developing strategic partnerships both at home and abroad through participation in well-organised exhibitions, roadshows to target markets and business meetings.
Innovation & Technology: Improving innovation processes and developing technological achievements, monitoring and shaping trends and international high technology standards with the enhancement of applied research by linking industry and academic research community and by organising scientific events.
Policy Action: Exploring partnerships, shaping policy proposals and developing action plans on issues for supporting innovation, entrepreneurship and competitiveness at regional and national level aiming to improve the macroeconomic environment.
Support programmes
EU Programmes
European Programmes
H2020
CIP/COSME
Name & description
Participation in the Action “Creation of Innovation Clusters-A Greek product, a single market: The planet-pilot operation phase” of the «Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship» and Regions in transition National Strategic Reference Framework NSRF 2007-2013. The project objective was to support gi-Cluster to expand and make effective use of and promote Hellenic innovation at both national and international level. In specific, project's activity focused on the following strategic axes for gi-Cluster: Cluster Expansion; Innovation & Technology; Education & Training; Commercial Cooperation; Policy Action; Research & Development.
Project name
INCLUSILVER
SPACE2ID
SPACE2IDGO
Cooperation activities
International cooperation
Targeted countries
Brazil
Taiwan
United States
Transnational cooperation
Targeted countries
Austria
France
Germany
Spain
Transnational support activites
Participation at missions/events/study visits/fairs
International support activites
Participation at missions/events/study visits/fairsFurther information
Systematic participation in cross-cluster events as well as trade fairs in Europe and beyond, undertaking of business networking missions and collaborative EU projects with other European Clusters.
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