March, 8th, 2007Clusters as Drivers of a Sustainable Economic Growth “Secured Communicating Solutions” A Competitiveness Cluster In Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Région Innovation as Economic Change Driver DG Regio / PACA Round table - B

March, 8th, 2007Clusters as Drivers of a Sustainable Economic Growth Context France has launched a wide-ranging industrial strategy focusing on the key factors of industrial competitiveness, particularly R&D-led innovation Many EU Member States have the same concerns and are turning towards sustainable economic development. Competitiveness clusters are underpinned by local synergies between the industry, research and education communities.

March, 8th, 2007Clusters as Drivers of a Sustainable Economic Growth Competitiveness Cluster Initiative November 04 : French PM launches a call for « Competitiveness Clusters » projects February 05 : Call is closed 105 Applications July ’05 : French PM gives the « Competitiveness Cluster » Label to 67 projects SCS Project got the label : “Pôle Mondial” SCS one of 8 Competitiveness Clusters in PACA

March, 8th, 2007Clusters as Drivers of a Sustainable Economic Growth Risks Management Health Tourism Uses / Markets Software Telecoms Microelectronics Secured Communicating Solutions Value Chain Content Security Mobility Traceability Identity Connectivity Market feedbacks Markets oriented solutions SCS Cluster in PACA Technological skills

March, 8th, 2007Clusters as Drivers of a Sustainable Economic Growth Secured Communicating Solutions cluster « Our world at the beginning of the 21st century is fundamentally and irreversible changing. Its main driving forces are interactivity, mobility and individual need for safety, security and health ». ( Medea+)

March, 8th, 2007Clusters as Drivers of a Sustainable Economic Growth SCS Map Key indicators 41,000 jobs in ICT A cluster supported by 25 major international groups … … that alone account for 13,000 jobs… … of which 6,500 in R&D 330 partners directly envolved in projects 1,200 researchers in the public sector 14 High Tech schools providing for 1,500 engineers & doctorate researchers every year More than 100 projects in evaluation Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Monaco Gap Sophia Antipolis Avignon Aix-en-Provence La Ciotat TOULON MARSEILLE NICE Cannes Arles SCS cluster : A dynamic network of companies (Small or Medium size Business and big groups), of laboratories and training centers, strongly involved in cooperative projects

March, 8th, 2007Clusters as Drivers of a Sustainable Economic Growth Actors of the Pole SCS 12 founding industrials members More than 200 Companies, SME’s, Public laboratories, Universities, private laboratories, and Associations which are participating to cooperative projects

March, 8th, 2007Clusters as Drivers of a Sustainable Economic Growth Objective Be a major contributor in a regional innovation policy with: –The development of R&D competitive innovative projects –The help of SME’s development –The participation to the creation of an ecosystem tuned to the global regional development of ICT

March, 8th, 2007Clusters as Drivers of a Sustainable Economic Growth Sustainable Economic Growth SCS Cluster wants to transform its complementarities into markets and jobs. The cluster represents currently direct jobs. It should reach directs jobs in 10 years, or 25% of the news jobs created in PACA Region during that period. In view of its position and insertion in the global economy, the SCS Cluster will be one of the spearhead of the creation of jobs in the region, namely due to the close interaction between Large companies and SME’s. It participates to the policy of employment, and sustainable growth of the Region being a true center of attraction of initiatives and competences.

March, 8th, 2007Clusters as Drivers of a Sustainable Economic Growth Mobility Traceability Convergence Mobility Traceability Identity Connectivity Convergence Thematic Groups Main Plan CIMPACATELECOMSOFTWAREMULTIMEDIA Technology Platforms LOGISTIC Innovation and usages Center Communication, Promotion, International Actions, Partnership, Awareness technology, Small Business Support, Facilitation, VC/ Incubators relations, Training Security PROJECTS TOURISM HEALTHCARE Identity Connectivity

March, 8th, 2007Clusters as Drivers of a Sustainable Economic Growth Support SMEs SME’s might have difficulties to benefit from the cluster : –having less bandwidth than large companies, –lacking information –suffering from the uncertainty of financing their projects. The SCS Cluster has established a “mission SME” to listen to the SME’s, to inform them and to insure that it brings them added value. Some events are organized for the SME’s like : –Seminars on Intellectual property –Participation to Worldwide event ( 3GSM, Cards ASIA,..)

March, 8th, 2007Clusters as Drivers of a Sustainable Economic Growth Support SMEs SCS Cluster policy to foster the participation of SME’s to projects : –Projects should have at least one SME to be labeled –Visibility of project in creation phase to facilitate SME to join the consortium –Provides support to SME’s in the formalization of their projects –Intervene early on the emergence and creation phase of a new project or in the support of existing projects to: Enrich the projects with market data Comfort the business positioning at a worldwide level Identify new potential partners or customers Analyze the existing Intellectual property Validate the validity of the technological choices Study the scientific positioning Identify competition …

March, 8th, 2007Clusters as Drivers of a Sustainable Economic Growth Education/ Training The Education/ Training capabilities offered in PACA are key to the development of the Cluster and the Region. The Cluster SCS with its academic members has made the analysis of the current offering of Engineering education in the competences of the Cluster ( Microelectronics, Software, Telecom ). The industrial members have indicated the need of training for their activities and especially for the projects they are involved in. The offer/ Demand analysis allowed to : –Identify some gaps –Influence the content of the academic cursus of some master degrees. –Lead to the creation of masters in some high growth field( ex : in RFID) –Promote continuing education to upgrade the level of competences in some new fields.

March, 8th, 2007Clusters as Drivers of a Sustainable Economic Growth Environment protection projects SCS Cluster can bring innovative solutions in the protection of the environment and natural risks management. Two projects to illustrate this : –Project Real Crisis, co-labeled with PACA Risks Cluster to monitor Tsunami and bring the alert to the responsible public authority. –Project Fire co-labeled also with the Risks Cluster to develop a sensor network to monitor fire in the area covered, as well as detection of Terpene gas emission for firefighter' safety. SCS Cluster is also supporting the project of Platform CMER ( Centre Euro-Mediterranéen de l’Environnement et des Risques) driven by the Risks Cluster which intend to make PACA region a key player in developing services based on the European GMES program. –SCS can in particular bring expertise in Sensor networks and data analysis.

March, 8th, 2007Clusters as Drivers of a Sustainable Economic Growth International relations The SCS Cluster is turned to the international scene for developing new markets. It is interested to engage in partnership with international cluster to : –Develop common projects benefiting from additional competencies or usages –Open new business relations for its members –Share good practices. SCS Cluster is very keen to work with Torino Wireless. –There are many opportunities of common projects in areas like e-health, mobility ( geolocalisation),… –The transnational, cross- border nature of the two clusters allows the emergence of projects valuable for the EC ( Transportation,…). –Torino Wireless has developed a very strong program to help the development of its SME’s that SCS would like to inspire itself from. –Currently preparing with Torino Wireless an answer to the current call on Regions of Knowledge

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