CLUSTERS FOR GROWTH, PROSPERITY AND
COMPETITIVENESS – A CHALLENGE FOR ROMANIAN
INDUSTRIAL POLICY
PANEL I
Clusters as a driving engine for
competitiveness & prosperity in the region
10 – 11 April 2014, Sofia
"Vision without action is a daydream.
Action without vision is a nightmare"
Japanese proverb
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Romania documents for the next programming period 2014-2020
National Competitiveness Strategy
Analysis and evidence base of the R&D&I market in Romania made by Jaspers
Ireland and ARUP Romania
Clusters and smart specialization - World Bank - West Region
National Reform Program
National R&D&I Strategy
Industrial Policy Document (Romania is now in a process of elaborating a new
industrial policy document with elements of reindustrialization based on
competitiveness and innovation)
Romanian Cluster Mapping
Cluster Guide
Contribution to the revision of EU State Aid Rules for Innovation
In order to promote and to support innovation, clusters are a critical element of
national and regional policy to foster the competitiveness.
Analysis and Evidence Base of the R&D&I Market in Romania (Jaspers –
Recommendations Report)
The ARUP Ireland assignment is within the context of establishing a Smart Specialization Strategy
(RIS3), which is a pre-condition for accessing funding under the thematic priority for
research and development within the 2014 to 2020 European Structural Funds. This
strategy development will be led by the MoE who currently have responsibility for the
Research and Development thematic priority of the structural funds
The emerging clusters will be financed in the next programming period by the Operational
Regional Program and innovative clusters and poles of competitiveness (networks of
clusters) by the Operational program for Increasing the Economic Competitiveness.
The ARUP assignment has analyzed the evidence base of Romanian research and development
expertise (supply side) and the competitiveness of the Romanian economy (demand side),
to understand the linkage and correlation between research and development with
business performance within the innovation system.
Guidance is structured around a 6 practical steps:
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Analysing the innovation potential;
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Setting out the RIS3 process and governance;
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Developing a shared vision;
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Identifying the priorities;
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Defining an action plan with a coherent policy mix;
6.
Monitoring and evaluating
World Bank engagement in the RIS 3 Agenda in
Romania–”Competitiveness Enhancement and
Smart Specialization Policies in the Romania West
Region”
Two complementary activities:
• Competitiveness assessment of services and goods
producers in the West Region
• Sector smart specialization case studies
• Main objective: identification of policy measures,
interventions and smart specialization niches that
can help nurture the region’s growth potential
ROMANIAN CLUSTER POLICY
• Cluster policies can make a significant contribution to the definition of
Smart Specialization Strategy having an innovation driven development
strategy in place that focuses on each region’s strength and competitive
advantage.
• It’s about specializing in a smart way: i.e. based on evidence and strategic
intelligence about a region’s assets and the capability to learn what
specializations can be developed in relation to those of other regions.
• For example, in our West region we develop the fields of automotive, ICT,
renewable energies and creative industries and in the North East the fields
of textiles, agro-food, tourism. They have already accessed structural
funds in order to develop their activities, even by developing cross border
clusters.
At national level we identified the potential of innovation of each region based
on various factors (level of technologies used, skills and competences,
clusters existed etc.) and the regions use these strategic instruments in a
smart way into their development. Two Romanian regions (West and North
East are members of the European RIS Platform.
“Sometimes, at least at the starting point of building innovation strategy,
we have to think also at financing.”
Sectoral Operation Program „ Increase of economic
competitiveness”
Priority Axis 1: An innovative and eco-efficient production
Key Area of Intervention 3: Sustainable development of
entrepreneurship
Development of business support structures of national and
international scale (poles of competitiveness) – 60 million
euros – 16 applicants
Support of attracting SMEs into supply chains and clusters
- 20 million euros – 23 applicants
Both calls are open.
Project SEENECO
South East Europe Network of Excellence for Cluster Organizations
Partners:
• Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism from Bulgaria
• Chamber of Commerce&Industry of Croatia
• Ministry of Economy, www.minind.ro, Romania
• Ministry of Economy & Regional Development from Serbia
• National Agency for Regional Development from Serbia
Objectives:
-The development of an European portfolio of cluster organisations that will be further used as an
important instrument towards developing world class clusters in Europe
-Provide clusters with information on the possibilities of developing of a benchmarking approach in
their programs for improving their performance, gaining knowledge and learning. Benchmarking
is a tool that can be easily integrated in the strategic management of the cluster.
-The implementation of a procedure of comparing the structure, processes, level of development,
methods and services provided between clusters.
- Training of cluster management.
Project ClusterPoliSEE
Smarter Cluster Policies for South East Europe
Partner countries: Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Romania,
Slovakia, Slovenia, Albania, Croatia, Serbia, Republic of Moldova.
Objectives:
– To better prioritise Member State’s cluster policies towards the needs of
world-class clusters in the EU
– To better provide Member States and regions with neutral and reliable
information about clusters
– More and better practical cooperation at policy level between Member
States
– To better integrate innovative SMEs into clusters and the Lead Market
Initiative
– To rise the quality of cluster management all over Europe.
The Danube Strategy:
The Danube Region Strategy addresses a wide range of issues;
these are divided among 4 pillars and 11 priority areas. Each
priority area is managed by a Priority Area Coordinator.
• Priority Area 1A — To improve mobility and intermodality:
inland waterways is coordinated by Austria and Romania.
• Priority Area 1B - To improve mobility and intermodality - rail,
road and air is coordinated by Slovenia and Serbia.
• Priority Area 2 - To encourage more sustainable energy is
coordinated by Hungary and the Czech Republic.
• Priority Area 03 - To promote culture and tourism, people to
people contacts is coordinated by Bulgaria and Romania.
• Priority Area 4 - To restore and maintain the quality of waters is coordinated
by Hungary and Slovakia.
• Priority Area 05 -To manage environmental risks is coordinated by Hungary
(Ministry of Rural Development) and Romania (Ministry of Environment and
Forests).
• Priority Area 06 - To preserve biodiversity, landscapes and the quality of air
and soils is coordinated by the Land Bavaria (Germany) and Croatia.
• Priority Area 07 - To develop the Knowledge Society (research, education and
ICT) is coordinated by Slovakia and Serbia.
• Priority Area 08 -To support the competitiveness of enterprises including
cluster development is coordinated by the Land Baden-Württemberg
(Germany) and Croatia.
• Priority Area 09 - To invest in people and skills is coordinated by Austria and
Moldova.
• Priority Area 10 - To step up institutional capacity and cooperation is
coordinated by the City of Vienna (Austria) and Slovenia
• Priority Area 11 - To work together to tackle security and organised crime is
coordinated by Germany and Bulgaria.
• All the priority areas suppose the involvement of a wide network of key
players and stakeholders from the 14 countries of the Danube Region.
We invite you to cooperate with ICT Clusters in Romania!
Cluster
Field of
activity
Postal
code
City
Street
Contact person
1
ICT Regional Cluster
ICT
300054
Timisoara
5,Proclamatia de la
Timisoara
Sorin Maxim
T: +40 256-491923
Email:office@adrvest.ro
2
ICT – Regional
Competitiveness Pole Oltenia
Cluster
ICT
200130
Craiova
12, Stefan cel Mare
Gabriel Vladut
T:+40 722715604
E-mail:office@ipacv.ro
3
IT New Media Iasi
IT Media
700671
OF12
Iasi
10, Bv.Poitiers
SC Fortus
(Nucleus EA8)
Marius Alexa
Tel: 0040-745501941
Email:
marius.alexa@arhipelago.c
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Cluj IT Cluster
ICT
400221
Cluj Napoca
Parcul
Tetarom
Andrei Kelemen
Tel:+40 755122057
E-mail: andrei.kelemen@clujit.ro
Marcel Borodi
Tel.0040-744501503
E-mail:marcel.borodi@brinel.ro
Email:aries.transilvania@gmail.c
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Industrial
Proposals of further cooperation between Bulgaria and
Romania within Horizon2020, COSME, INTERREG
We invite you to reflect on some issues that could be future
projects for clusters development in South-East, Balkan and
Black Sea Region
• Integrating social innovation in cluster initiatives
• Preparatory exercise for train-the –trainers for cluster managers
• Elaboration of a System for Accreditation and Excellence Benchmarking
for the benchmarking/evaluation of cluster initiatives
Thank you for your kind attention!
Gabriela Pirvu (gabriela_parvu@minind.ro)
Mariana Voicu (mariana_voicu@minind.ro)
Christina Leucuta (christiana_leucuta@yahoo.com)
Directorate of Industrial Policy & Competitiveness
Ministry of Economy, Romania