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1. European Cluster Collaboration Platform (ECCP)
Where the platform comes from and where it
goes to.
What is the potential of the ECCP and its MoUs?
How do cluster organizations currently help
SMEs to become more international?
How to move forward?
2. Background description
Survey:
Largest European survey among cluster
organisations and cluster policy makers;
420 participants
Outcome:
There was a need for clusters to network
even beyond national borders to develop
their full potential for the benefit of
their SMEs.
Solution:
A online collaboration tool fostering
cooperation between both clusters and
their SMEs all over Europe and beyond.
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3. The History of ECCP
www.clusterobservatory.eu
Innovation PlatformOnline
Knowledge Platform
Collaboration Platform
Collaboration
Cluster
Cluster
Cluster Mapping organisation /
Platform
Cluster member
organisation
benchmarking
profiles
Regional Framework
Conditions Marketplace
Sectoral
communities and
EU projects
information
Cluster Library
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4. Status quo: ECCP now part of ECM
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5. Key figures on ECCP
April 2012
• 1340 registered users (30 +)
• 621 cluster org. registered (15 +)
• 40.979 visitors (since launch)
• 43 communities
• 353 documents in library
• 181 events
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6. The potential of ECCP
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7. Survey (1)
• 167 users joined the survey (14.6 % of all registered users!)
• Do you see – on a medium term – ECCP being a useful tool to foster
collaboration between European clusters and clusters from
BRAZIL?
I disagree I totally disagree
8,90% 0,68%
I totally agree
21,92%
I partly agree
30,82%
I agree
37,67%
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8. Survey (2)
…SME members on the map – find suitable
partners for collaboration within Europe?
I disagree I totally disagree
6,71% 3,05%
I partly agree
11,59%
I totally agree
38,41%
I agree
40,24%
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9. Survey (3)
…SME members on the map – find suitable
partners for collaboration globally?
I totally disagree
I disagree 5,59%
11,80% I totally agree
19,25%
I partly agree
29,81% I agree
33,54%
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11. Outlook: SME-internationalization
through clusters; paving the way (2)
MoUs, events, documents, threads,
international projects, matchmaking
events (coming soon)
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12. Outlook: SME-internationalization
through clusters; paving the way (3)
Mapping of
clusters -globally
• A tool to find
suitable clusters
•A tool to find their
SMEs (under
construction)
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14. Crowdsourcing (e.g integration of the customer)
An approach used successfully by Procter & Gamble, Dell or Starbucks
Outlook: Users might take over the market research, the product
development or the product design => the customer might decide which
product will be produced (The customer is king)
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15. Crowdsourcing: Example
• Key Message:
Rob McEwen is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Goldcorp. Shared his company’s proprietary geological
data so that people all over the world could do the gold prospecting for him.
• Problem:
Low performance but high costs to produce one once of gold
• Solution:
Triggering a new gold rush by issuing an extraordinary challenge. He put all his company’s geological data
(which went back as far as 1948) into a file and shared it with the whole world. McEwen hoped that
outside experts would tell him where to find the next six million ounces of gold. In return he offered
$575,000 in prizes to the participants with the best methods.
• People from different sectors participated
• Outcome:
In all more than 110 sites were identified and 50% of these were previously unknown to the company. Of
these new targets, more than 80 per cent yielded significant gold reserves. McEwen believes that this
collaborative process cut two, maybe three years off the company’s exploration time. And the worth of
this gold has so far exceeded $6 billion in value. The prize money was only a little over half a million
dollars, so it was a fantastic value for money investment, and much cheaper than continuing with
unproductive exploratory drilling.
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16. More than 80% of
all innovation are a
recombination of
existing knowledge
Prof. Franke: (Schumpeter 1937)
Fairness is the key to
make crowdsourcing a
real success!
Definition of CROWDSOURCING
the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or
content by soliciting contributions from a large group of
people and especially from the online community
rather than from traditional employees or suppliers
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17. Goals
Increase competitiveness
Access to innovation
Support international activities
(export)
Focus: Needs of SMEs
Fairness and trust:
The Corner stones
of success
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18. ECG can offer platform for
ECG can bid for EU funding
collaboration and continue
Activities
for activities/projects. E.g. the
relevant ECMC services (European
extension of the European
Cluster Manager of the Year
Cluster Collaboration Platform
Award, etc.)
TCI Secretariat provides
ECG creates own legal structure
Organisation
administrative support as to
(German “Verein”) and
TCI interest groups/contact
governance structure
points
European Cluster TCI – Other European Cluster
Managers’ Club (ECMC) Global Network Networks
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19. Join now!
www.clustercollaboration.eu
>>Looking forward meeting you on ECCP
Thank you very much for your attention!
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20. Contact & Information
Christoph Matthias Reiss-Schmidt
Project Manager (EU-projects)
Clusterland Oberösterreich GmbH
Tel: +43 732 79810-5157
Fax: +43 732 79810-5110
Mobile: +43 664 8186586
christoph. Reiss-schmidt@clusterland.at
www.clusterland.at
Clusterland Oberösterreich GmbH supports cluster and network initiatives.
It promotes innovation through cooperation and competence in order to
enhance the competitiveness of enterprises.
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21. BACKUP
Tool to foster collaboration
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