Competitive Clusters - Lessons Learned from Sweden

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Competitive Clusters- Lessons Learned from Sweden

• Innovation 2006
• Association of Innovative Entrepreneurship CR
• Charles Bridge, Prague, 7 December 2006
• Presentation by Dr. Lars Eklund, Director
  Competitiveness at VINNOVA and President of The
  Competitiveness Institute (TCI)

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Targets

• System Renewal
• Resolve Fragmentation
• Discover Leadership
• Sustain and Reinforce

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The Concept

• Triple Helix
• Competition
• Exploration Exploitation
• Long Term
• Realisation
• Internationalisation

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Triple Helix

• Business
• Research
• Politics
• And Media

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Competition

• Among Triple Helixes
• Regional Strongholds
• Significant Incentives
• Group Pressure
• The Law of Jante

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Exploration and Exploitation

• Continued growth around existing proven concepts
  and ideas
• Exploring new opportunities and ideas for
  tomorrows growth
• Initiating new exploration
• Achieving growth around high potential concepts
  and ideas

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Long Term

• 10 years
• Strategic Evaluations
• Towards Open Source

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Realisation

• Knowledge Management
• Institution Analysis
• Innovation System Analysis
• Strategy Leadership
• Market Driven Realisation
• Institutions for Collaboration
• 50-50

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Internationalisation

• Neighbourhood Collaboration
• EU CIP Pro Inno Net
• Bilateral USA, China, India, etc
• Innovation Journalism
• The Competitiveness Institute
• Clusters Competitiveness Foundation

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Effects

• Low Hanging Fruits
• Fame
• Dynamics
• Attractiveness
• Pipelines
• Competitiveness
• Global Borns

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Europe

• The Commission at least 3 DGs
• The Field An Uneven Race
• The New Regional Strategy
• 2007 Innovation and Clusters Ministerial
• The Open Source Approach
• Europe in Globalisation

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Thank you!

• www.VINNOVA.se
• www.COMPETITIVENESS.org
• www.CLUSTERCOMPETITIVENESS.org