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Title Description Author Year
Designing business models, value propositions and sustainable funding for clusters

On a basic level, clusters create value as intermediaries, who forge and drive connections and relationships that might otherwise not occur. This is an important role in the network of public, private and academic actors giving rise to innovation and regional economic development. A blueprint, recipe or magic bullet for a cluster business model does not exist. This articles provides advice on the...

Wadim Baslow 2021 Read more
Clusters Driving the Green and Digital Twin Transitions Policy Brief

This policy brief explores the importance of clusters for research and innovation.

Clusters play an important role in industrial transformations as they support knowledge diffusion, knowledge, higher innovation and research activities, new business models, and can reconfigure industrial value chains.

Clusters can support SMEs in their green and digital transformations through cross-border...

Interreg Europe Policy Learning Platform: Marc Pattinson and Arnault Morrisson 2021 Read more
Cluster development guide - A practitioners guide for cluster policy, strategy and implementation

The guide provides and overview on the concept of cluster policy before setting out strategies ad providing a toolkit for cluster practitioners within clusters and cluster support organisations.

German cooperation; Giz 2021 Read more
Collaborative robots, human-AI systems and the role for policy report

This report focuses on analysing the consequences of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics-based automation on industry and work, the related human-machine systems and human-computer interaction, and the need for policy to support a positive transition and mitigate the potential risks.

EISMEA - Advanced Technologies for Industry project 2021 Read more
Expression of Interest for the EU-South MED event ECCP 2021 Read more
Call for expression of interest - EU-South MED conference

Document detailing the guidelines for applicants of the EU-South MED matchmaking event in October.

ECCP 2021 Read more
International reports : report on South Korea : technological capacities and key policy measures

The Advanced Technologies for Industry Project has published a report on technological capacity and policy in South Korea.

The objective of the international country reports is to explore the technology and policy landscape of selected non-European countries. Country performance in advanced technologies is presented based on patent, trade and investment data. 

The reports provide also a...

European Commission 2021 Read more
Looking Beyond the Horizon report by the European Commission

The Advanced Technology Watch report has been developed in the framework of the ‘Advanced Technologies for Industry’ (ATI) project, initiated by the European Commission, Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, and the European Innovation Council and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Executive Agency.

This report focuses on market, business and...

European Commission 2021 Read more
Proceedings Report - European Matchmaking event - Development and production of COVID-19 therapeutics

The European Commission’s Task Force for Industrial Scale-up of COVID-19 Vaccines, through the European Cluster Collaboration Platform (ECCP) contract managed by the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) and with the support of the European Clusters Alliance (ECA) and the Council of European BioRegions (CEBR) organised the “European Matchmaking event - Development and...

European Commission 2021 Read more
Japanese Industry and Policy News

The EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation has published a report on Japanese industry and policy news.

The report covers:

• Key policy news
• Smart city development
• Hydrogen
• The energy sector
• Biodiversity
• International and more policy news

EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperaton 2021 Read more