Building Regional Strategies to Support Clusters in North Mid-SwedenAnders Olsson

Breakout Session: Clusters and smart specialisation strategies: design and implementation

5 September 2013

Building Regional Strategiesto Support Clusters inNorth Mid-SwedenAnders Olsson, Enterprise and Innovation Manager

Steel &Engineering Compare

The Paper Province

Food

Desing Agencies

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”Form a R&I contract betweenRegion Värmland and Karlstad University with the innovativeclusters development in mind.”

2 strategies

RegionVärmland

KarlstadUniversity

TheClusters

Research &InnovationCooperation

1

MoUBilateral

agreements

Clusterstrategies

Research &InnovationCooperation

1Professorship

Energy Efficiency

Professorship UserdrivenPackaging

DevelopmentProfessorship

Materials Science

ProfessorshipProductions

SystemsProfessorship

Renewable Energy

Professorship”Tjänstefiering”

ProfessorshipTest Complex IT

SystemsProfessorship

Cloud Computing

ENERGYTECHNOLOGY

MATERIAL ANDDESIGN CENTER

SERVICERESEARCH CENTRE

COMPUTERSCIENCE

The Paper Province

The Packaging

Arena

Steel andEngineering

CompareICT

Research &InnovationCooperation

1

Cluster strategy Värmland model 2.02

RegionVärmland

KarlstadUniversity

TheClusters

MoUBilateral

agreements

Clusterstrategy

Cluster strategyVärmland model 2.02

Cluster strategyVärmland model 2.02

Four assets:

1. Networks of companies2. Trust in the regional triplehelix3. Inter cluster co-operation4. The Innovation Platforms

Cluster strategyVärmland model 2.02

Four priorities

1. Investment promotion2. Norway – export, innovation3. Clusters goes local4. The clusters visions

Cluster strategyVärmland model 2.02

The next step

VärmlandInnovation

Process

KarlstadInnovationPark

VIP KIP