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11/17CLUSTER AS

Tanja Arzberger

Ljubljana, 29.11.2017

INNOVATION DRIVER

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1 vision

2 federal states

3 groups of stakeholders

4 core topics

4 higher goals

7 team members

12 shareholders

80 cooperation partners

AT A GLANCE

3VALUE CHAIN

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TO INNOVATE BECOMES MORE COMPLEX, MORE DEMANDING, MORE TIME CONSUMING...

Determining factors of generating ideas: former distinguished technologies start to converge, thematic complexity outruns technological orientation, long development cycles to market readiness, role of IPR in innovation process changes

Cf Künzel et al.: Cluster und Innovation Cluster Initiativen als Innovationstreiber, 2015

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Big corporations have their own structures and methods for innovation management.

Medium enterprises have standardized methods for innovation management. There is at least one person familiar with innovation

management.

Small enterprises usually do not have a structured innovation management.

Cf. Künzel et al.: Cluster und Innovation Cluster Initiativen als Innovationstreiber, 2015

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STRATEGICALLY...

…first measures undertaken by

clusters in an overall

innovation management

process.

INNOVATIONS STRATEGYRoad mapping, portfolio analysis, international

positioning, cluster strategy as framework für SME strategies

INTERNAL FRAME CONDITIONS (INNOVATION CULTURE)Offering further education, linking industry and academia,

working groups, Inno Labs, open innovation arenas

OPERATIONAL INNOVATION MANAGEMENTEstablishing contacts between cooperation partners („Innovation Matching“), technology transfer

EXTERNAL FRAME CONDITIONSCommon purchase platform, skilled labor recruiting,

intermediary linking to politics multipliers

RESULT TRANSFERCommon brands or processes, innovation bundles

Cf. Künzel et al.: Cluster und Innovation Cluster Initiativen als Innovationstreiber, 2015

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METHODS ON OPERATIONAL LEVEL…

…the huge advantage of innovating in a cluster is in the networked development of innovations which would not be possible within a single company.

TECHNOLOGY SCOUTING

INNOVATION MATCHING

CROSS CLUSTERING

Cf. Künzel et al.: Cluster und Innovation Cluster Initiativen als Innovationstreiber, 2015

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SILICON ALPS INITIATIVES

CFG CYBER SECURITY & IOT

CFG HEALTH TECHNOLOGY

CFG RFID

CFG „AUSBILDUNGSOFFENSIVE ELEKTRONIK 2020“

EXPERTSBRUNCHESCOMPETENCEFORUMS

FIELDTRIPSSPOTLIGHTS

OPEN INNOVATION DAY

SAC STAGE

High-Tech NetworkIn The South Of Austria