4th Competitiveness Clusters Forum & Ministerial Conference on Clusters

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4th Competitiveness Clusters Forum 13th November 2008

13th November 2008 - CICA, 2229 route des Crêtes, Sophia Antipolis, France
Moderator plenary sessions : Mrs Annika Ström Melin and discussions will be translated into English and French.
8:45am		Welcoming

9:00 – 9:45am		A European Policy for world class clusters Mr Pierre Laffitte, President of the Fondation Sophia Antipolis, Honorary Senator (France) Mrs Françoise le Bail, Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry, European Commission Mr Luc Rousseau, DGE, Ministry for the Economy, Industry and Employment (France)

9:45 – 10:30am		Clusters: Going from the past to the future Mr Pierre Dartout, DIACT (France) Prof. Örjan Sölvell (Sweden) Mr Jean Marc Thomas, Aerospace Valley (France)

10:30– 11:00am		Innovation and clusters policy in Japan Mrs Yuko Harayama, MOST, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University (Japon)

11:00– 11:15am		Coffee Break

11:15– 12:15pm Parallel Sessions		Raising the level of excellence of cluster organization Moderator: Mr Alain Moulet, DIACT (France) Mr Philippe Bassot, CM International (France) Mr Bernard Sans, Pôle Mer PACA (France) Mr Nikos Pantalos, Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry, European Commission The role of clusters supporting SMEs to go international Moderator: Mr Peter White, YTKO (UK) Mr Ben Butters, Eurochambers Mr Dominique Vernay, System@tic (France) Mr Rodolfo Zich, Torino Wireless (Italy) Mr Vassilios Makios, Corallia (Greece) Mr Nelson De Souza, IAPMEI (Portugal) New training needs for new qualifications Moderator: Mr David Halley, Business in the Community (UK) Mr Gabriel Crean, Athlone Institute of Technology (Irland) Mr Wolfgang Sening, Cluster Medizintechnik (Germany) Mr Jean Louis Pierquin, Pôle MIPI (France)

12:30– 2:00pm		Lunch

2:15– 3:00pm		European Clusters in global competition Mr Günter Verheugen, Vice-président of the European Commission

3:00– 4:00pm		Public and Private financing to foster clusters excellence Moderator : Mr Jean-Noël, Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry, European Commission Mrs Claire Munck , EBAN /AFIBIO Mr Alain Huriez, EBAN / TcLand Expression SA Mr Pascal Lagarde, CDC Entreprises (France) Mr Michael Hochholzer, Baytech Venture (Germany)

4:00– 4:15pm		Coffee Break

4:15– 5:30pm		The role of trans national coperation for developping world class clusters Moderator: Mrs Agnes Arcier DGE (France) Mr Clément Goossens, Point One (Pays-Bas) Mr Stig Jorgensen, Medicon Valley (Suède Denmark) Mr Rolf Reiner, BeLCAR (Germany) Mr Martin Hinoul, ELAT

5:30pm		Closing session (by a Minister, to be confirmed)

14th November 2008 - Sophia Country Club, 3550 route des Dolines, Sophia Antipolis, France
Moderator : Nikos Pantalos, European Commission
		First Assembly of the European Cluster Alliance An open policy dialogue on cluster development in Europe

9:15am - 9:30am		Opening Mr Jean-Noël Durvy, European Commission

9:30am - 10:30am		Presentation of the main results and achievements of the ECA Mrs Lynne Taylor, CLUNET Mr Jens-Erik Lund, BSR Mr Michel Ganoote, INNET Mrs Anita Hingsamer, CEE-Network

10:30am - 10:45am		Expectations from the associated members of the ECA Speaker from an associated member of the ECA (to be nominated)

10:45am - 11:00am		Coffee Break

11:00am - 11:30am Parallel Sessions		Working Area 1 & 2 Working Area 3 & 4

11:30am - 11:45am		Main lessons learned from trans-national cooperation Mr Laurent Soulier, Fondation Sophia Antipolis

11:45am - 12:00pm		The next phase of the European Cluster Alliance Mr Nikos Pantalos, European Commission