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Japanese Industry and Policy News: November 2019

The EU-Japan Centre in Tokyo is regularly publishing "Industry and Policy News" from the Japanese industrial, business and policy landscape, including newly released policy documents, surveys, and official statements, in the context of EU-Japan industrial cooperation . Please find out about recent developments in the chapters focusing on Legislation and Policy, Survey and Business Data, Company news and...Read more
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Call for the EU-Japan Clusters and Regions Cooperation Event, 27-29 April 2020, Strasbourg

The European Commission, the EU Japan Regional Cooperation Helpdesk and the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation jointly organise the EU-Japan Clusters and Regions/Prefectures Cooperation Event on 27-29 April 2020 in Strasbourg, France. The event’s main objective is to support clusters, European regions and Japanese prefectures in their function of networking organisations by fostering the creation of long-term strategic partnerships between European organisations and Japanese partners. Furthermore, by gathering representatives from networking organisations, regions and prefectures, the...
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Industrial clusters participate in the COP25 Climate Summit in Madrid

A session on industrial ecosystems and open innovation took place last Thursday, 12 December 2019 during the COP25 Climate Summit in Madrid, Spain, where the example of business clusters was showcased as a driver for innovation and growth. The session was open by Ms. Eva Revilla, from the European Commission DG GROW Policy Expert on internationalisation of EU industrial clusters and with wide experience on...Read more
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Contribute to shaping the development of Advanced Technologies for Industry (ATI)

On behalf of the Advanced Technologies for Industry (ATI) initiative of the European Commission, we are inviting you to contribute to the development of knowledge on strategic value chains of relevance for clusters. One of the tasks of this project aims at identifying and analysing 15 promising ATI-based products and their value chains, with an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the EU...Read more
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Clusters growing the ocean economy

Many countries have seen the potential in sustaiable, economic growth in the ocean economy. Offshore floating wind, tourism, seafood, fishery, autnomous ships and clean maritime technologies are just some of the growth sectors in the global blue economy. But how exactly can governments kickstart and scale this economic growth? The answer to that question can very likely be found in building ocean clusters...Read more
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Capacity Building Programme for Basque Clusters on SDGs, Creating Shared Value and Addressing Societal Challenges

Over the last three months, SPRI has organized a pilot capacity building initiative for the Basque Clusters on “ SDGs, Societal Challenges and Shared Value creation ”. SPRI designed this training in the framework of the working group on Shared Value the agency launched in 2017 with 8 clusters. For this training, SPRI partnered with UN Global Compact- Red Española , who has delivered 3 half-day training...Read more
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ClusterFY Joint Policy Recommendations

ClusterFY aims to improve regional and national policy instruments seeking to intensify clusterization processes especially related to Key Enabling Technologies (KET’s), as well as foster interregional cooperation between and among clusters and business networks. These developments advance the implementation of regional innovation strategies. Peer learning between ClusterFY partner regions has highlighted...Read more
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The power of (connected) ecosystems – notes from the 11th Global Peter Drucker Forum

With around 1000 participants from 60 countries – including large delegations from the US and China – the global management conference debated the topic “The Power of Ecosystems” with many of the leading management thinkers and practitioners of our time. For the first time, clusters were on the agenda, through the dedicated session on “Innovation Superclusters – Trust-based Collaboration Platforms for...Read more
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Meeting of 50 Gold-Label Clusters

A meeting with 50 managers of Gold-Label Clusters from 17 European countries was organised by DG GROW on December 4th in Brussels. It gathered about half of all Gold-label cluster organisations across in Europe. They together represent more than 6500 SMEs from across Europa, covering many sectors – from Energy, Health, Automotive and Agro-food. About 20 additional representatives from national cluster...Read more
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Marking Your Territory: Choosing a Trade Mark in China

In one of the most famous trade mark infringement case, New Balance Trading (China) – the Chinese affiliate of US sports footwear brand, New Balance – was ordered by a Guangzhou court to pay RMB98 million in compensation (equivalent to approximately EUR14.3 million), and to publicly apologise to Chinese businessman, Mr Yuelin Zhou, for trademark infringement. The trade mark in question was “新百伦”, or “Xin...Read more
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