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- 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/ - Center for industrial Competitiveness - University of Massachusetts Lowell
- Center for industrial Competitiveness - University of Massachusetts Lowell
http://www.uml.edu/centers/CIC/ - CIDOB foundation
- Research, teaching, documentation and
dissemination centre for International
Relations and Development
http://www.cidob.org/castellano/index.cfm - CISC (Centre for Innovation and Structural Change)
- This is a research centre at the National University of Galway which its main research projects are on innovation and clustering.
www.nuigalway.ie/cisc/projects.htm - East of England Energy Group
- The East of England energy industry has to meet new challenges and seize fresh opportunities if it is to capitalise on a sustainable future based on stable energy supplies (...) Natural resources, internationally renowned academics and world-class companies exploiting innovation, high quality skills and track records to match will all be part of the campaign.
http://www.eeegr.com/ - 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 - Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies
- Ecis is a research institute at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven with a social sciences perspective on innovation and technology.
fp.tm.tue.nl/ecis/ - 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 - Forrester Research
- Forrester Research is an independent technology research company that provides both pragmatic and forward-thinking advice about technology's impact on business.
http://www.forrester.com/my/1,,1-0,FF.html - Haas School of Business
- University of California Berkeley.
www.haas.berkeley.edu/ - Harvard Institute for International Development
- The Harvard Institute for International Development has been dissolved in 2000, but you can still find some interesting papers of the Institute here. Most of the workshops and research activities have been integrated into the John F. Kennedy School of Government (Harvard University).
http://www.hiid.harvard.edu - Hubert H Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs (University of Minnesota)
- The institute examines public issues and shaping public policies at local, state, national and international levels and for providing leadership and management expertise to public and nonprofit organisations.
www.hhh.umn.edu/research/index.html - 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/ - IDC
- IDC is a premier global market intelligence and advisory firm in the information technology and telecommunications industries. They analyze and predict technology trends.
http://www.idc.com/home.jhtml;jsessionid=FTOAXAZBGN5RCCQJAFDCFFAKBEAVAIWD - Incae - Cluster Development in Central America
- Incae - Cluster Development in Central America
http://www.incae.ac.cr - INCAE Business School
- INCAE is devoted to actively promoting the comprehensive development of the countries it serves and in order to contribute to the fulfillment of this mission, INCAE's Research Centers engage in the analysis of issues highly meaningful to the business community and the creation of proposals conducive to the sustainable development of Latin American countries.
http://www.incae.ac.cr/EN/centroinves/ - Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard University
- Institute for Stategy and Competitiveness led by Michael E Porter studies competition and its implications on company strategy.
http://www.isc.hbs.edu/ - Institute of Development Studies (University of Sussex - UK)
- Institute of Development Studies (University of Sussex - UK)
http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/ - Internation Development Research Centre (Canada)
- Internation Development Research Centre (Canada)
http://www.idrc.ca/ - Istituto G. Tagliacarne (Italy)
- Istituto G. Tagliacarne (Italy), only available in italian for the moment.
http://www.tagliacarne.it/main.asp - 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 - Kiel Institute for World Economics (University of Kiel)
- The institute is an international centre which concentrates on economic research, economic policy and consulting. Available in German and English.
www.uni-kiel.de/IfW/ifwinfo_e.htm - Kista Science City
- Kista Science City’s position in the fields of telecommunication systems and wireless systems in particular is unique. Few sites in the world can display the same breadth throughout commerce and industry along the entire length of the wireless systems value chain.
www.kista.com/ - 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 - Medilink East
- MedilinkEast was formed in 1998 to stimulate growth in the medical technology sector by establishing effective and sustainable partnerships between customers (hospitals, clinicians etc.), innovators (Universities and research organisations) and suppliers (companies providing medical equipment)
www.medilinkeast.com/ - 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/ - Morrison Institute for Public Policy
- The official web site of Morrison Institute for public policy,
a research resource for Arizona residents and leaders at Arizona State University .
http://www.asu.edu/copp/morrison/ - 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 - New Tools for Life
- Hälsans nya verktyg is a regional initiative for growth with its core in Östergötland, Sweden. The focus is on health and health related business. Its mission is to make the region of Östergötland a prime mover in the development of individually adapated solutions for best possible health.
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The main motives are a great and growing market potential and a suitable regional profile with roots in the academic society, the business environment and public organisations. Primarily focused product areas are sports, personal health, distributed care and personal care.
The primary objective is to generate growth in the region through a successive introduction of the new products on the great and growing international market.
www.halsansnyaverktyg.se/?sid=768&parent=749 - Okanagan Partnership
- The Okanagan Sustainable Prosperity Strategy is a bottom-up, collaborative strategy to ensuring that the Okanagan region - from Similikameen to Enderby in the north to Osoyoos in the south - remains economically vital while preserving a high quality of life that has inspired many to move to the region and continues to retain those who live here. This broad-based regional initiative is the first of its kind in the Okanagan. Until now, communities have largely looked within their own boundaries for solutions to economic and quality of life challenges they face.
www.okanaganpartnership.ca/ - 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 - Regional Technology Strategies Inc.
- Regional Technology Strategies Inc.
http://www.rtsinc.org/ - RESD (Regional economic and social development)
- The Regional Economic and Social Development (RESD) Department offers advanced certificate and Master’s programs, to prepare students to understand, analyze, and intervene in the economic development of regions. University of Massachusetts
www.uml.edu/Dept/RESD/ - School of Business, HKU
- School of Business - the University of Hong Kong
www.business.hku.hk/ - 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 - Stanford Graduate School of Business
www-gsb.stanford.edu- Starnet
- Economic statistics from the Italian Chamber of Commerce (only available in Italian)
http://www.starnet.unioncamere.it/ - The Hubert H. Humprey Institute for Public Affairs of the University of Minnesota - research on indu
- The Hubert H. Humprey Institute for Public Affairs of the University of Minnesota - Research on industry clusters
http://www.hhh.umn.edu - The John F. Kennedy School of Government
- John F Kennedy School of Government - Harvard University
The research site hosts working papers and links to other research ressources.
www.ksg.harvard.edu/ - The United Nations University
- The United Nations University
http://www.unu.edu/ - Trends business research
- East Midlands, England, logistics cluster development
http://www.tbr.co.uk/consultancy/projects/emda_logistics_development/index.htm - University of West Virginia (US)
- University of West Virginia (US)- see especially the web book section.
http://www.rri.wvu.edu - 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 - WIDER - World Institute for Development Economic Research
- WIDER - World Institute for Development Economic Research
http://www.wider.unu.edu/
