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The agrifood biotech cluster - Canada
Saskatoon's technology cluster is one of the bigger agricultural and food biotechnology clusters in the world. It has more than 20 years of history within the province of Saskatchewan, with a reputation for introducing "world firsts" into the market establishing itself as Canada's centre for plant and animal genome science.
Files
- Blaise Champagne - Science of Advanced Materials and Manufacturing - Applications in Boucherville and Saguenay Region, Ottawa 2004
- BChampagne-advancedmat-manufacturing.pdf
Links
- Aerospace Cluster in Rhône-Alpes
- Aerospace Cluster, a shared ambition…
Commercial and International development
Management of the performance and organisational innovation
Technological innovation
www.aerospace-cluster.com - ARNES - ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH NETWORK OF SLOVENIA
- The main task of ARNES is development, operation and management of the communication and information network for education and research.
www.arnes.si/english/ - Automotive Cluster
- ACS enhances the development of efficient communication among its members, who produce components, modules and systems for OE customer producing cars, buses, lorries and special vehicles, and for after-sales market.
ACS enhances all activities connected with the research and development of new products and services with greater added value.
ACS also provides important links between members, supporting synergy with suppliers of machines, tools, manufacturing, design, logistics and other services.
ACS promotes joint members' activities to improve products and operations in R&D, production, quality assurance and to achieve and maintain business excellence.
ACS keeps members promptly informed of new and existing issues in the automotive industry.
ACS develops and maintains information, educational and other infrastructure for its members' needs.
ACS represents its members' interests and promotes their activities at home and abroad, especially at car manufacturers.
ACS monitors the business environment, suggesting the appropriate measures to the authorities enabling the members to respond to the constant challenges in the automotive industry.
www.acs-giz.si - BioFuel Region
- BioFuel Region
– a region that leads the world in biofuel
BioFuel Region is the propelling force in a long-term process where regional co-operation is used to implement the development and introduction of renewable fuel, which is based on biomass from forests, fields and recycling. For the most part, the counties of Västernorrland and Västerbotten make up the region. The vision for BioFuel Region (BFR) is that we are going to be self sufficient in transport fuels in 2030 and a world-leading region in the area of cellulose-based biofuel that will be in the forefront of the acquisition of knowledge about biofuel, as well as being a leader in the development of technology, production and utilization of biofuel.
http://www.biofuelregion.se/ - Canadian Photonics Consortium
- The Canadian Photonics Consortium is the national organization that represents companies, regional clusters, and research institutions active in the fields of optics and photonics. CPC’s vision is to establish Canada as the place for business success in optics and photonics.
http://www.photonics.ca/ - Cluster IT & Software Engineering
- Info only available in German.
http://www.can-suedtirol.it/it-dercluster.asp?sCatalogKey=infotechnologies&L=3 - Ecological Construction Cluster Lower Austria
- The Ökobau cluster Lower Austria
the central turntable for all enterprises, F&E mechanisms as well as qualification is mechanisms, which concern themselves with the topics energy efficiency, housing comfort, interior climate and existing building reorganization.
www.oekobaucluster.at - Edmonton Economic Development Corporation
- NANOMEMS EDMONTON
A registered public-private partnerhsip, NanoMEMS Edmonton is Alberta, Canada's leading MNT cluster organization, dedicated to fostering development and growth of micro and nano-based commercial enterprise across the region. Lead partners include: Micralyne Inc., Bigbangwidth Inc., the University of Alberta, Edmonton Economic Development Corporation, and NINT, the National Institute for Nanotechnology (National Research Council of Canada, NRCC). Cluster participants include two dozen established and early-stage MNT/MEMS companies. For more information about NanoMEMS Edmonton, visit www.nanomems.org
EDMONTON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (EEDC)
EEDC is a not-for-profit company owned by the City of Edmonton that is responsible for regional economic development, regional tourism marketing, the Edmonton Research Park and the Shaw Conference Centre. For further information, please refer to www.edmonton.com.
www.nsti.org/Nanotech2005/exhibitor.html?id=147 - Encluster
- The objectives of Encluster are to help identify and exploit business opportunities, to encourage start-ups and inward investment in a number of practical ways, including networking activities and demonstration projects, particularly in waste management and processing, energy management and renewable energy.
www.encluster.org/ - Envirolink Northwest Ltd
- Envirolink Northwest exists to promote, strengthen and support the environmental technologies and services sector in England's Northwest. Three environmental technology and services (ETS)companies and the largest university in the region are working with three major companies from each of the following sectors chemicals, food and paper manufacturing to help them to identify alternative uses for thier unavoidable waste streams.
http://www.envirolinknorthwest.co.uk/ - fiber optic valley
- Fiber Optic Valley, Sweden is an arena for the development and test of the broadband technique and services that offers a unique business network of partners and a close collaboration with researchers within the University world.
We offer, among other things, a testbed with test pilots (contracted end-users), qualified evaluators, researchers, education, business models, behavior analysis and statistical models plus an advanced state-of-the-art fiber optic lab.
Welcome to Fiber Optic Valley!
www.fiberopticvalley.com/english/default.htm - HVAC CLUSTER, Slovene heating, ventilation and air conditioning
- Development of the complete, new and Modern HVAC System with all products and components, specially with new technical solutions. <br> <br>
Podjetja, vključena v Grozd KGH z izvajanjem skupnih projektov ustvarjajo močno skupino, katere člani bodo skupaj ali posamično lahko konkurirali za velike projekte tako doma, kot v tujini.
www.hvac-cluster.com/ - ICT Pomerania
- The ICT cluster is very important for Trojmiasto (i.e. the region of the three cities of Gdansk, Sopot and Gdynia which are located next to one another)
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Our mission is:
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"to create and develop an ITC cluster which would combine business and scientific environments as partners to jointly create a leading region in Poland, and which would internationalise the region's business and services worldwide".
www.ictpomerania.pl/content/en_index.php - Industrial district "Tuscanyvalley"
- An industrial district in Tuscany. Only in Italian
www.tuscanyvalley.net/root/index.asp - Innovative Regions
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Innovative pilot project using a bottom-up approach to develop business opportunities in companies. The objective is to strenghten traditional metal industries in entering the knowledge economy - ie. become more innovative. Range of stake holders including research and education are contributing.
www.regionaalborg.dk/ - it.saarland
- The Saarland positions itself with its technologies and solutions in the international competition. The cluster it.saarland connects the authority of enterprises, research institutes and education organizations among themselves. A goal is it to manufacture contacts to initialize projects and to bundle the know-how for customers and solutions: world-wide and in the region.
The cluster it.saarland is arranged according to topic
www.it.saarland.de - Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network
- Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network provides analysis and action on issues affecting their region's economy and quality of life. The organization brings together established and emerging leaders—from business, government, academia, labour and the broader community—to spotlight issues and work toward innovative solutions.
www.jointventure.org - Lindholmen Science Park AB
- Lindholmen Science Park is the most dynamic development area in Göteborg. It is a part of the north riverbank in Göteborg, where a new city district is being built up in the old harbour areas. Within the next few years, 10,000 people will be working in Lindholmen and just as many will be studying here.
www.lindholmen.se/ext/index_en.php - MedInSoft
- MedInSoft is the Mediterranean network of the creators of software.
Created on the initiative of the Data-processing Club of Provence at the end of 2003, it has the role to federate competences and the resources of the software publishers of Provence the Alps Riviera and Corsica.
MedInSoft is a major actor of the development of the regional die of the software industry.
By its structuring action, MedInSoft reinforces the development and the performance of the creators of software.
The regional economic actors find in the vicinity, in MedInSoft, the data-processing solutions necessary to the improvement of their competitiveness.
www.medinsoft.org/ - Microwaveroad - Enabler of the wireless society
- A world Leading region in Microwave technology, westsweden - Research, Education, Development and production of future Wireless products - A strong cooperation between industries, academy and society - ”triple helix”<br><br>
Microwave Road är en regional plattform för nationellt och internationellt samarbete kring mikrovågsteknik för näringsliv, offentlig förvaltning samt högskolor och universitet. Syftet är att genom samarbete utveckla produkter baserade på mikrovågsteknologi.
www.microwaveroad.se/ - Moravian Silesian Engineering Cluster
- Only available in Chechen
www.msskova.cz/ - Multidisciplinary Assessment of Technology Centre for Healthcare (MATCH)
- MATCH is a research collaboration between five leading UK universities in healthcare technology assessment, and a cohort of industrial partners. It is recognised and funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) as a centre of excellence in its field, having been awarded the status of Innovative Manufacturing Research centre (IMRC).
www.match.ac.uk - Oresund Science Region
- Øresund Science Region is a trans-national initiative between Denmark and Sweden that
serves to strengthen one of the most important assets of the Øresund Region: The unparalleled
presence of cutting-edge technologies and highly skilled human resources, which is the result of
a specialised research community and a growing number of knowledge-based, market leading
companies.
www.oresundscienceregion.org/sw6563.asp - Plasttechnics cluster of Slovenia
- The Plastics Cluster unites the most important companies and accompanying institutions from the plastics industry. The cluster's members use the latest technology and are the optimal partner for new products and components, from planning through tool-making to production.
www.giz-grozd-plasttehnika.si/English/Index.html - ReFine
- The objective of the regional innovation system ReFine is to support the development of existing manufacturing companies, new companies, products and services and the improvement of the regional infrastructure.
www.refine.nu - Saskatoon Regional Economic Development Authority Inc.
- Saskatoon, known as Canada's Science City, is
world renowned for its incomparable mix of scientific infrastructure. Among this infrastructure is Canada's largest science project in over three decades, the Canadian Light Source (CLS) synchrotron. To learn more about world-class R&D facilities in Saskatoon...
www.sreda.com/ - Shire IT Cluster
- The Sutherland Shire It Cluster is a network of professionals, practitioners, trainers, educators, product & service providers, representing the broad spectrum of the IT and ICT sector who have formed a collaboration to meet the ICT needs of southern Sydney.
www.theshireit.org.au - Uppsala BIO
- The region of Uppsala, located 20 minutes north of Stockholm-Arlanda international airport, is today a buoyant center of biotechnology. In this comparatively small area, we find about one fourth of Sweden’s biotech sector in the shape of universities, industry and national agencies.
Uppsala has a long tradition of working with biotechnology, especially tools and methods for research and development in the life sciences. Pioneering core technologies such as ultracentrifugation, electrophoresis, gel filtration and affinity chromatography were invented by Uppsala scientists. Many of these developments have spun off into successful products sold the world over by Uppsala-based companies.
www.uppsalabio.com - VERA Limited
- Syn3rgy is a full-service ICT company. We offer clients unparalleled levels of service using our customer-focused approach, and partnering them through all projects.
www.verahub.net
