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Norwegian Centres of Expertise (NCE) is the second of three levels of the Norwegian Innovation Clusters programme with a focus on clusters with the highest potential for regional economic development. Established in 2006, NCE is directed towards enhancing and facilitating established development...

The collaboration project "Joining Technologies cluster" between Morocco and Germany aims at providing knowledge for the innovation and competitiveness of manufacturers in Morocco. To boost the skill development, top companies in the industry and educational institutions from Morocco and Germany are...

Being established by three cluster organisations BE-Basic (the Netherlands), Catalisti (Belgium) and CLIB (Germany), the Bio Innovation Growth mega Cluster is a cross-border initiative of the "Smart Specialisation Initiative", aiming at the transformation of an industrial mega cluster of biobased...

Funding - support planned for the years 2021-2027: Development of the potential of growing clusters - support to cluster management organisations Support for the supra-regional growing clusters, aspiring to obtain the status of National Key Clusters - strengthening the professionalization of...

The project “Circular 4.0” aims to strengthen digitalisation processes by SMEs to foster innovation and accelerate the transition to circular economy in Alpine Space. The project concentrates on the following three topics: circular design models, optimal use models and value recovery models.

In 2021 the new platform for green transformation and bioeconomy was imple-mented in Lower Austria. It is a perfect interface to the existing clusters and the technopoles Lower Austria. The platform has as well a hub function to all important players within this topic in Lower Austria. The platform...

In 2021 the Tyrolian platform for climate, energy and circular economy was es-tablished, in which the governmental organisations of Tyrol - Energie Tirol, Klimabündnis Tirol and the Standortagentur Tirol - use joint synergies to coordinate and further improve their respective service offerings. The...

The goal of the initiative is to stimulate integration of enterprises into clusters, to increase maturity of clusters, and to promote growth and international cooperation. How? • Strategic consulting • Building cluster management competencies • Development of new joint projects, products/services...

The Cluster Mapping Project is a national initiative that provides over 50 million open data records on industry clusters and regional business environments in the US to promote economic growth and national competitiveness. The US Cluster Mapping Project aggregates all the US clusters, providing...

The U.S. Department of Energy launched the National Incubator Initiative for Clean Energy (NIICE) initiative to increase coordination and collaboration among the incubators across the country and develop best practices to raise incubator performance standards. This effort enabled incubators to...

The MEP National Network is a public-private partnership delivering solutions to U.S. manufacturers on advancing U.S. manufacturing. The MEP National Network comprises the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership, and 51 MEP centers comprising 1,300...

The platform of industrial and hightech sectors Industry4Ukraine was created to develop modern industry as the basis of the Ukrainian economy. In 2020, three committees of the platform started their work: - the Cluster Committee; - Committee for Smart specialisation of Regions; - Committee for...