DISTRICT Developing Industrial Strategies Through Innovative Clusters and Technologies

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DISTRICTDeveloping Industrial Strategies Through
Innovative Clusters and Technologies

• Sub-project FORECO - Foreseeing Competitiveness

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Sub-project FORECO - Foreseeing Competitiveness

• Key principles and project snapshots
• Transnational partnerships
• Project objectives
• Work packages and responsible partners
• Achievements

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Key principles and project snapshots
FORESEEING/FORECASTING
COMPETITIVITY
Implementation and comparison of perspective
methodologies within partner territories Foresight
in Pisa Analysis of Scenario in Coventry
Elaboration and experimentation of a model for
the identification and analysis of business
competitivity factors Focus on enterprise
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Transnational partnerships
IT Lead partner Public Administration body with
an intermediate role between Regions and Town
Councils for local development
PROVINCIADI PISA
COVENTRY UNIVERSITY ENTERPRISES
UK partner Subsidiary of Coventry University
aimed at the commercialisation of University
knowledge and expertise
ESPIRA GROWTH CENTRE
SE partner Trust, created by University, some
major corporations and public bodies, aimed at
promoting cross business-research development
SVILUPPO ITALIA TOSCANA
IT partner Regional company within the national
governmental agency for enterprise and inward
investment development
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Project objectives
Stimulate the ability of local public government
in the identification and exploitation of
competitive advantages in their territories

• Gather and elaborate information useful in the
  building of medium to long term perspective
  visions
• Establish a set of tools for use in scenario
  analysis
• Definition and experimentation of an evaluation
  procedure of competitiveness factors in SMEs for
  the use of public governments
• Strengthening of governance practices and
  coordination

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Work packages and responsible partners
WP0Provincia di Pisa
Management and organisation of the project for
its overall duration
Forecasting Scenario studies comparison and
sharing of best practice tools
WP1Coventry University
WP2Espira GrowthCentre
Definition of framework for SME competitiveness
analysis
Assessment of enterprise competitiveness factors
through a pre-defined analysis model
WP3Sviluppo Italia Toscana
WP4Provincia di Pisa
Animation and external dissemination activities
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Project achievements
WP0Provincia di Pisa
The Province of Pisa has set out a management
unit that is carrying out project activities and
taking care of financial matters
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Project achievements
WP1Coventry University
Province of Pisa has carried out its foresight
activities and is comparing its work with
Coventry University. Coventry University
provided partners with materials to share their
practices in analysing scenarios
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Project achievements
WP2Espira Growth Centre
Espira Growth Centre is organising a partnership
comparison on methods for SMEs assessement.
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Project achievements
WP3Sviluppo Italia Toscana
Sviluppo Italia Toscana has worked with local
stakeholders in the definition of Smes
assessement methodolgies. This work has been
validated by the comparison with Espira Growth
Centre
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Project achievements
WP4Provincia di Pisa
Province of Pisa organizes a public conference on
Industrial Districts (November).
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Pisa 2020 scenari e opzioni strategiche

• Main aim to deliver a prospective analysis which
  identifies both the future weakness and
  opportunities and the strategic options, by the
  means of strategic and sistemic learning process.
  This will lead to
• generation of long period visions
• elaboration of shared policies
• identification more suitable instrument to
  polcies implementation

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Projects outputs

• Anticipation and forecasting in a structured way
  of needs and developments of concerned territory 
• Discussion, analysis of the above with a
  continuous involvement of different stakeholders,
  through participative and interactive
  instruments 
• Strengthen of social networks 
• Drafting of a more focused territorial concept
   
• Elaboration of a strategic vision
• Spread knowledge of global trends  
• A Policy advice document

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The Steps

• Project Team and Working plan adoption
• Desktop analysis 
• Local stakeholders Mapping
•  Political approval
• Individual Interviews
• SWOT
• a. identification scenarios
• b. 2 workshop
• SWOT drafting 
• 7.    Polcy advice report

9 months
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Individual interviews results
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Individual interviews results (2)
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Individual interviews results (2)
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Policy advice

• Leading Stakeholders' idea
• Changing the paradigm of the management of the
  territory towards a Policy of resources
• To produce a systemic exploitation of strategic
  resources in order to support a increased
  competitiveness of the territory

MISSION Policy of resources Competitiveness
Energy and Longevity