IRE meeting Industrial Regions Group

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IRE meetingIndustrial Regions Group

• 10-11 June 2003 in Poznan (Poland)

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IRE meeting Industrial Regions Group

• ARAGÓN - WEST ROMANIA A PROACTIVE COLLABORATION
• Offering Aragón experience (RIS / RIS / PRAI
  since 1997 to 2003)
• Sharing diagnostics and knowledge
• Implementing, validating and improving well
  proved models
• Developing billaterals meeting between parallel
  agents (face toface, with similar even common
  interest)
• Building future relationships in key fields
• Innovation services offer
• Commerce and industry tractors organizations
• Working on SME specific programmes

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IRE meeting Industrial Regions Group

• Aragón
• Population 1.21 Millions
• Area 47,669 Km2
• Density 25.4 Inh/Km2
• Population and business services concentrated in
  Zaragossa and Ebro valley
• Rural problem-opportunity (tourism and cultural,
  sports,..)
• Economy highly based in Industry
  automation,transport, metal-mechanic,
  energy,agrofood, the most important sector.
• Export capacity (125 coverage)
• Traditional sectors forced to change (textile,
  leather,..)
• Cultural values, human capital, strong University
  and Politechnique School,..
• Logistic asset in Southwestern Europe

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• West Romania
• Population 1.960 Millions
• Area 32,034 Km2
• Density 64.0 Inh/Km2
• Demographic good balance (regions of Timis, Arad,
  Caras Severin, Hunedoara, more powerful Timis)
• Traditional heavy industry convict to disappear
  (minning, metalurgy, chemical,..)
• Key subsectors with opportunities through
  reorganization (tool-machines, metal mechanic for
  construction,..)
• Good base for raw materials exploitation,
  developments for food and furniture, textile,
  leather, glasware,..
• Human capital (Alcatel, Siemens,..Timisoara and
  Arad, beeing considered subjected to qualified
  work force)
• Logistic strategical position.
• Universities (8 publics, 7 privates)

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• PROJECT OVERALL STRUCTURE
• Movilising regional actors and building regional
  consensus
• Establishing transregional structures and
  know-how transfer
• SMEs needs regional analysis (demand)
• Evaluation of available regional technology
  innovation supply (private and public)
• Definition of a strategic framework, an Action
  Plan and a monitoring system
• Stage 0 Management structure / regional agents
  full involvement (12 months)
• Stage 1 SWOT analysis / consolidated and
  valuable data base (12 months)
• Stage 2 Developing and implementing a West
  Romania Action Plan (8 months)
• E.U. Partners Region Lazio/Puglia (Italia) and
  Aragón (Spain)

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• ARAGÓN SUPPORT SCHEDULE OF DEVELOPED ACTIVITIES
  (1)
• Pre-summer 2002
• Agreement West Romania - Aragón
• Approval from the E.U. (Michael Busch)
• (leader institutions West Romania Development
  Agency and Technological Institute of Aragón in
  each country)
• Summer 2002 Information interchange (regional
  and institutional level)
• October 2002 Aragón senior reps.(RIS expert from
  ITA) visiting Romania.
• Defining support tasks
• Aragón diagnosis model for supply / demand
  analysis
• Defining training requirements
• Aragón experience presented to social and
  economical Romanian leaders (St. Comm.)

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• ARAGÓN SUPPORT SCHEDULE OF DEVELOPED ACTIVITIES
  (2)
• November 2002 (5th, 6th, 8th)
• WRDA and Romanian technical team visiting Aragón,
  the most active actors and champions,
  entreprenurial organizations, SMEs sectoral
  groups, Zaragossa university, incubator centre,
  politechnique high engineering school, innovative
  transfer regional office, tractor companies (BSH
  Group, etc..)
• November 2002 (19th,20th)
• Timisoara Mentoring (supply and offer model
  training courses, 2 technical groups)
• Arad Aragón experience (RIS/RIS/PRIA)
  presentation of achievements and next steps as
  benchmark case in the RIS West Romania official
  kick-off for this subregion

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• ARAGÓN SUPPORT SCHEDULE OF DEVELOPED ACTIVITIES
  (3)
• February 2003
• Aragón delegation (RIS expert consultant)
  visiting Timisoara and participating in a
  monitoring and control exercize with the West
  Romania RIS conductors (St. Comm.)
• New actions were defined
• To focuse innovative RD projects in the 6FP
• Agreement
• ITA closer involvement (with the E.U.
  Authorities) in the WR Ris Steering Commitee
• June 2003 (2nd week)
• Ongoing support activities, interchange visit to
  Timisoara, working with the Steering management
  and technical groups in the analysis of SMEs
  survey and sectoral working groups.

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• Where we obtain mutual benefits?
• West Romania
• A proved model (methodology)
• An actual experience (key success factors)
• Economy / free tools (model, self diagnosis tool,
  others applications,..)
• Training and mentoring support
• Accompanying measures as references
• Benchmarking cases
• West European opening facilities (Ceneo others
  Aragonese networks possibilities,..)
• Real cost savings
• Gaining time for full integration

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• Aragón position a real opportunity
• PREMISE
• We have assumed the responsibility to contribute
  in facilitating NAC entry in the E.U. (paying
  back / returning received preious help from our
  European partners)
• A way to better perceive, anticipate and meet
  threatens and opportunities
• Traditional sectors (economies based upon
  salaries)
• Geostrategic business knowledge and economic and
  market views
• Reconducting assets and investments , human
  capital, strategies, technologies,..
• Promoting alliances
• Reinforcing solid links and cooperation

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• FACTS /LESSONS TO BE LEARNT
• NAC have a tremendous potential for development
  in a short term
• Culture, logistic and human resources is a very
  strong asset
• Just a gap from isolation and old systems and
  organization easy to be recover with IST and
  capital
• Attitudes, capacities at first level
• Challenge but opportunity for/from current E.U.
  RIS Regions
• So, the next steps
• Respect, knowledge, cooperation, and building
  common paths through collective strategies to
  reinforce efficiency and resources, European
  added values and Regional stronger capabilities
  through innovative programmes.

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IRE meetingIndustrial Regions GroupWhy not to
build a project for a multiregional group of
industrial RIS countries to be the pattern of
reference of NACs when RIS programmes have to be
developed during 2003-2007?

• 10-11 June 2003 in Poznan (Poland)