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THE TRADE INDUSTRY CLUSTER IN NORTHERN FRANCE (I)

• The Trade Industry Cluster mail ordering,
  retail, logistics, IT
• The biggest concentration of mail ordering and
  retail companies in Europe Auchan, 3 Suisses,
  Redcats, Damart, Decathlon, Kiabi, Boulanger,
  Finaref,
• Key-figures
• Retail and mail ordering turnover 38 M/year
• Retail mail ordering 115,000 employees
• Logistics 56,000 employees
• IT 31,000 employees
• 10,000 shops throughout the world

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THE TRADE INDUSTRY CLUSTER IN NORTHERN FRANCE
(II) PLAYERS INVOLVED

• 22 mail ordering and retail companies
• 8 IT companies
• 5 universities
• 10 high schools
• National Centre for Scientific Research
• National Research Institute for Informatics and
  Automatics
• Lille Chamber of Commerce
• Association of professionals

? The biggest cluster in this sector in Europe
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CLUSTER PROCESS DEVELOPMENT

• Creation in December 2004
• A national bid of the French Ministry of Industry
  and the DATAR launched in November 2004 and to be
  completed on February 28th, 2005
• Objectives of the State government
• Develop competitiveness of innovative
  key-economic sectors in France
• Help to create innovation-based clusters
• Enhance relationship between research centres,
  academics and industry
• Give a better visibility and capability of the
  French industry internationally

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THE TRADE INDUSTRY CLUSTER ACTIONS (I)
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THE TRADE INDUSTRY CLUSTER ACTIONS (II)


PROGRAM 1 Development of the logistics process
PROGRAM 2 CRM development
INDUSTRY-RESEARCH PROGRAM
PROGRAM 3 Data information management
PROGRAM 4 E-services
development
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KEY-FEATURES OF THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP

• Businesses at the head of the initiative and
  support of PAs
• 40 of the budget supported by businesses and
  the chambers of commerce, 60 supported by PAs
  (State government, region, local authorities,
  universities,)
• Businesses involved in the decision process
  (governance and strategy) and at every stage of
  the program
• Industry-research projects as immediate benefits
  for businesses
• one-to-one research contracts
• shared projects
• Services benefiting to businesses incubation,
  coaching for business creation, best practice
  transfer from majors to SMEs, international
  promotion, strategic watch