C3-Saxony build a platform for a sustainable business development accelerator, offering incubation services for innovation projects at the interface of microelectronics/ICT and life sciences with a focus on the sector of mobile services and personalised medicine. 

Through workshops, business matchmaking events and support schemes, C3-Saxony provided an open space, where relevant stakeholders from both disciplines could meet and generate, refine and develop project ideas as well as find partners for the project realisation.

Information on the project  C3 Saxony Programme: CIP Call identifier: 64-G-ENT-CIP-13-C-N04C02 Project full name: Cross Cluster Cooperation in Saxony Acronym: C3 Saxony Duration: from (February/2014)                till (February/2016) Consortium composition:

Participant No	Participant Organisation Name	Country
1 (Coordinator)	Saxon State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Labour and Transport	Germany
2	Silicon Saxony e.V.	Germany
3	biosaxony e.V.	Germany
4	Technische Universität Dresden	Germany
5	AGIL Agentur für Innovationsförderung und Technologietransfer Leipzig GmbH	Germany

Objectives The final objective is to identify scope for improvement of the existing or even creating new policy initiatives and instruments to support entrepreneurship, with a focus on the enhancement of cross-sectoral spillovers.

Sectoral/industrial focus: Mobile services and personalised medicine/Microelectronics, nanoelectronics and biotechnology

Executive Summary  C3-Saxony build a platform for a sustainable business development accelerator, offering incubation services for innovation projects at the interface of microelectronics/ICT and life sciences with a focus on the sector of mobile services and personalised medicine. 

Through workshops, business matchmaking events and support schemes, C3-Saxony provided an open space, where relevant stakeholders from both disciplines could meet and generate, refine and develop project ideas as well as find partners for the project realisation. 

Participating in European matchmaking events and innovation fora offered possibilities for the project owners to communicate their ideas in a European environment and identify European partners for cooperation.

Workshops on idea generation and structuring were facilitated by the Technische Universität Dresden/Lab of Knowledge Architecture, while incubation services were implemented by the cluster partners Silicon Saxony, biosaxony and the innovation consultancy AGIL GmbH Leipzig.

In a second parallel activity, a structured policy dialogue and exchange with seven other European countries/regions took place – Rhône-Alpes (France), Flanders (Belgium), Catalonia (Spain), Madrid (Spain), Ireland, Lower and Upper Austria and Wallonia (Belgium). This aimed at identifying best practice models for innovation and growth supporting instruments with respect to emerging industries, clusters and cross-sectoral innovation.

This exchange has been established both at policy level and among cluster organisations. 

Expected Results  These activities have (so far) resulted in 44 innovation projects which have been submitted to C3-Saxony, of which 22 received an innovation voucher and have been further incubated to grow. 

Events organized by the project: http://www.c3-saxony.eu/events/event-archive/

Coordinator contact details Name: Ramona Landgraf Organisation and position: Silicon Saxony Address: Manfred-von-Ardenne-Ring 20 F, D-01099 Dresden Phone number: +49 351 8925886 Email: ramona.landgraf [at] silicon-saxony.de 

Website:  http://www.c3-saxony.eu/home/