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CLUNET WORKING GROUP
Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal 1002,
Sherbrooke street West, suite 2400 Montreal
(Quebec) H3A 3L6, CANADA
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Working group objectivesandprogram
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CLUNET WORKING GROUP Europe meets America 20-21
September 2007
Working Group Objectives

• General objectives
• Encourage detailed policy exchanges
• Build up trust and relationships between partners
• Improve communications and create maximum value
  added from the limited time policy makers have
  for meetings
• Specific objective
• Bring together CLUNET policy making partners to
  discuss cluster development policies including
  the sub-themes (SME internationalisation,
  incubation)
• Themes to be covered
• Cluster governance and partnership
• Cluster finance
• Incubation via clusters
• SME development via clusters
• Cluster evaluation and monitoring
• Cluster growth and global competitiveness strategy

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CLUNET WORKING GROUP Europe meets America 20-21
September 2007
Program
Thursday, 20th September 2007 Montreal Working
Group

• 12h00 General Findings of CLUNET Work Package 2
  30 minutes
• Laura Righi, Direzione Generale
• dello Sviluppo Economico, Etruria Innovazione
  (Toscana)
• Marc Pattinson, Director inno-TSD
• 12h30 Lunch and Networking
• 14h30 Montreals Competitive Clusters
• 20 minutes each
• Carl Viel, General Manager, Montreal In Vivo
• Lyne bouchard, President and Chief Executive
  Officer, TechnoMontreal
• Suzanne Benoit, Chief Executive Officer, Aero
  Montreal
• 15h30 Discussion
• Moderator, Maxime Trottier, MMC
• 16h30 Adjournment and Return to Hotel
• 17h50 Departure from Hotel - Reception for CLUNET
  Partners and Guest Speakers
• Discovering Montreal from the Saint-Lawrence
  River
• Press release / Photos

• 8h00 Meeting place Hotel Lobby
• 8h30 Breakfast - Arrival Registration
• 9h00 Welcome
• Massimo Iezzoni, Director General, MMC
• 9h15 CLUNET Objectives and Update on EU cluster
  policy
• Lynne Taylor, NWDA
• Fabien Martel, NWDA
• 10h00 Montreal and other North American Regions
  
• Benchmarking Cluster Policies
• Yves Charette, MMC
• 10h30 Comfort Break
• 10h45 Canadian and US Experience Policy Lessons
• Policies for Cluster Creation Lessons from the
  ISRN Research Initiative
• David Wolfe, Professor, University of Toronto5 25
  minutes
• 2 US/Canadian Regions 25 minutes each
• Michael Darch, Executive Director, Global
  Marketing, OCRI (Ottawa)
• Daniel E. Bosley, Chairman, MA State Legisl.
  Joint Committee on Economic Development and
  Emerging Technologies

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CLUNET WORKING GROUP Europe meets America 20-21
September 2007
Program
Friday, 21st September 2007 CLUNET Regular Meeting
12h15 Lunch and networking 14h00 MoU and Cluster
alliance Discussion about Memorandum of
understanding (MP) Networking and cooperation
with other Inno-NETS (FMLT) 15h30 Preparation of
the Stockholm meeting in January 08 Next
activities and action plan Regional and
national Communication 17h00 Adjournment and
Return to Hotel

• 8h00 Meeting place Hotel Lobby
• 8h30 Breakfast - Arrival Registration
• 9h00 Welcome feedback from Day 1 LT YC
• 9h30 Discussion about the final deliverables of
  WP 2
• Regional profiles/ Clunet policy Guidelines
• How to use and spread those documents
• 10h30 Break
• 10h45 WP 3 Pilot project set-up
• Feed back from Tuscany brainstorming (MT
  Filas)
• Presentation of opportunities from participants
  (All partners)
• Methodology for the future Pilot projects (MT
  All partners)

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Clunet participants andguest speakers
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Clunet participants

• Lynne Taylor NWDA
• Fabien Martel NWDA
• Marc Pattinson Inno-TSD
• Vanja Rangus Department for Economic Development
  and Tourism - Ljubljana
• Natasa Mrsol Department for Economic Development
  and Tourism - Ljubljana
• Dajana Pefestorff ZAB ZukunftsAgentur
  Brandenburg GmbH
• Miguel Angel Garcia Instituto Technologico de
  Aragon
• Françoise Restif Bretagne Innovation
• Ian Brannigan One NorthEast
• Philippe Perez Mediterranee Techonologies
• Gabriella Fiori Mediterranee Techonologies
• Laura Santarelli Finanziaria Laziale di Sviluppo
• Laura Righi Etrutia Innovazione -Toscana
• Astrid Harder-Nowka Ministry of Economic and
  Labour Affairs - Hamburg
• Walter Birkhan Ministry of Economic and Labour
  Affairs - Hamburg
• Robert Kopasz South Great Plain Regional
  Development Agency
• Annukka Havas Lahti Science and Business Park -
  Finland
• Eduardo Diaz Fundacion para el Conocimiento
  madrid
• Yves Charette Communauté métropolitaine de
  Montréal

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Clunet guest speaker

• David A. Wolfe University of Toronto
• Daniel E. Bolsey Massachusetts Sate Legislature
• Michael B. Darch OCRI - Ottawa
• Suzanne Benoît Aéro Montréal
• Carl Viel Montréal InVvo
• Lyne Bouchard TechnoMontréal

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Guest speakerbiographies
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David A. Wolfes Biography

• David A. Wolfe is Professor of Political Science
  at the University of Toronto at Mississauga and
  Co-Director of the Program on Globalization and
  Regional Innovation Systems (PROGRIS) at the Munk
  Centre for International Studies. His research
  interests include the political economy of
  technological change and the role of local and
  regional economic development, with special
  reference to Canada and Ontario. PROGRIS serves
  as the national secretariat for the Innovation
  Systems Research Network (ISRN), funded by the
  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
  of Canada. He is National Coordinator of the ISRN
  and from 2001 to 2005 he was the Principal
  Investigator on its Major Collaborative Research
  Initiative grant on Innovation Systems and
  Economic Development the Role of Local and
  Regional Clusters in Canada, a comparative study
  of twenty-six industrial clusters across Canada.
  Along with Meric Gertler, he has recently been
  awarded a new MCRI grant from SSHRC on the Social
  Dynamics of Economic Performance Innovation and
  Creativity in City Regions which runs from 2006
  to 2010.
• He holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Political Science
  from Carleton University and a Ph.D. from the
  University of Toronto. From October, 1990 to
  August, 1993 he served as Executive Coordinator
  for Economic and Labour Policy in the Cabinet
  Office of the Government of Ontario. Upon his
  return to the University of Toronto from 1993
  until 1997, he was a research associate in the
  Canadian Institute for Advanced Researchs
  Program on Law and the Determinants of Social
  Ordering. He is editor or co-editor of seven
  books and numerous scholarly articles and public
  policy reports. In 2003, he co-authored a report
  on Community Participation and Multilevel
  Governance in Economic Development Policy for the
  Government of Ontario's Panel on the Role of
  Government. Most recently, he prepared a report
  for the Ontario Research and Innovation Council
  on Knowledge and Innovation.
• His recent publications have appeared in The
  Nation State in a Global Information Era, ed.
  Thomas Courchene, Innovation and Social Learning
  Institutional Adaptation in an Era of
  Technological Change co-edited with Meric S.
  Gertler, Taking Public Universities Seriously,
  co-edited by Frank Iacobucci and Carolyn Tuohy,
  Global Networks and Local Linkages, co-edited
  with Matthew Lucas, Clusters and Regional
  Development Critical reflections and
  explorations, edited by Bjorn Asheim, Phil Cooke
  and Ron Martin, and Cluster Genesis The
  Emergence of Technology Clusters, edited by
  Maryann Feldman and Pontus Braunerheim. Recent
  articles have also appeared in European Planning
  Studies, Regional and Federal Studies, Review of
  International Political Economy, Futures, Urban
  Studies and Science and Public Policy. More
  information is available at the PROGRIS website
  http//www.utoronto.ca/progris.

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Michael B. Darchs Biography

• Michael Darch is the Executive Director of OCRI's
  Ottawa Global Marketing. The Global Marketing
  group is responsible for the attraction of
  investment, companies and people to the Ottawa
  region, the branding and marketing of the City of
  Ottawa, the management of Ottawa's global
  partnerships and the support of Ottawa's
  technology clusters.
• Michael is a strong advocate of focused,
  cluster-based economic development. He has been
  the driving force behind the economic
  partnerships formed between Ottawa and five U.S.
  cities and is now building European partnerships.
  He has rebuilt the marketing of Ottawa around its
  successful technology clusters, skilled
  workforce, research strength, ability to attract
  capital and business support infrastructure.
• Michael has over 30 years experience in the
  private sector. He was President of Viva
  Interactive Learning Inc, a company producing
  computer-based Health and Safety educational
  products. Michael was also the President of REDO,
  an organization to assist the economy of Ottawa
  to adjust to the federal government downsizing
  announced in 1995. Prior to that appointment, he
  was the founder and President of Lansdowne
  Technologies Inc. for 20 years. Lansdowne
  provided management services to large
  technology-intensive projects, primarily in the
  aerospace and defence sectors.
• Michael served as an engineering officer for 11
  years in the Canadian Air Force.
• Currently a Director of the Ottawa
  MacDonald-Cartier International Airport
  Authority, Michael also served as a Chairman of
  the Ottawa Economic Development Corporation. He
  has also served as a Director on the Boards of
  several technology companies, both public and
  private.
• Michael holds Masters degrees in Business from
  the University of Ottawa and Engineering from
  Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and
  is a graduate of the Royal Military College of
  Canada. He is a Professional Engineer, registered
  in the Province of Ontario.

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Daniel E. Bosleys Biography

• Representative Daniel E. Bosley, of North Adams,
  serves as the HouseChairman of the Joint
  Committee on Economic Development and Emerging
  Technologies in the Massachusetts Legislature.
  This Committee considers all matters pertaining
  to economic development within the Commonwealth,
  including issues related to commercial
  establishments, industrial development, casino
  gambling, gaming and the racing industry.
  Representative Bosley worked extensively on the
  Economic Stimulus packages that included STEM an
  initiative to encourage students to pursue the
  fields of science, technology, engineering, and
  mathematics as well as encourage technology
  applications in classrooms and the use of
  technology in workforce training and development.
  
• He created legislation to restructure the
  electric industry, a project that has been
  credited as the largest economic development
  program in Massachusetts and the first of its
  kind in the nation. The Restructuring Law has
  resulted in almost 3 billion in savings to
  ratepayers and has increased generation capacity
  to record levels. It has also led to the largest
  investment in renewable energy and efficiency
  programs in the country.
• Representative Bosley has served as Chairman of
  the Council of State Governments Eastern Regional
  Conference (CSG/ERC) Export Promotion Task Force
  and as Chair of the Electric Deregulation Task
  Force. In 1996, he was instrumental in
  establishing the Eastern Trade Council, an 11
  member jurisdiction, a regional trade institute
  to promote regional cooperation to increase
  experts in the Northeast. In 2004, he served as
  the CSG National Chairman.
• First elected as State Representative in 1986,
  Representative Bosley is currently serving his
  eleventh term. Bosley graduated cum laude from
  North Adams State College in 1976 with a BA in
  History and Political Science. In 1996, he
  received his MA in Public Policy from UMass
  Boston. In 2001, Massachusetts College of
  Liberal Arts awarded Bosley with an honorary
  Doctor of Laws. He lives in North Adams with his
  wife, Laura, and his daughter, Stephanie.

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Lyne Bouchards Biography

• Lyne Bouchard joined Montréal International in
  April 2006 to manage the Information and
  Communications Technology Cluster of Greater
  Montréal TechnoMontréals activities. In
  partnership with companies and representatives
  from the academic, scientific and governmental
  sectors, Ms. Bouchard sees to the industrys
  promotion and ensures that the right conditions
  are put in place to allow our companies to
  compete internationally. Previously, Ms. Bouchard
  was Director for Eastern Canada of Gartners
  Executive Programs where she worked as a senior
  consultant and coach with CIOs. Ms. Bouchard
  holds a doctorate from UCLA.
• Lyne Bouchard sest jointe à Montréal
  International en avril 2006 pour diriger les
  activités de la Grappe des technologies de
  linformation et des communications du Grand
  Montréal TechnoMontréal. De concert avec les
  entreprises et les représentants des milieux
  académiques, scientifiques et gouvernementaux,
  Mme Bouchard voit à la promotion de lindustrie
  et à la mise en place des conditions qui
  permettront aux entreprises de mieux concurrencer
  à léchelle internationale. Auparavant, Mme
  Bouchard a été responsable des programmes pour
  exécutifs chez Gartner où elle a travaillé avec
  les CIOs de lest du Canada en tant que
  conseiller senior et coach. Mme Bouchard détient
  un doctorat de UCLA.

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