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BALKAN CLUSTER NETWORK ACT LOCALLY,THINK GLOBALLY

• Dr. Danka Milojkovic

Director of the Cluster House, Nis, Serbia Members of the TCI Board of Directors, Barcelona, Spain danka@clusterhouse.rs

 Isolated projects, initiatives and clusters lose a

huge part of their innovation potential.

BCN’s mission

Connect – Combine – Cooperate

• n daily basis, bringing together cluster

actors, sharing knowledge, experience and information with aim to boost innovation

 Sharing ideas means also getting new ones

 bringing together research actors,

enterprises, institutions and policy makers into a collaboration network

 within clusters, entities can operate more

efficiently and can share common technologies, infrastructure, pools of knowledge, and demand.

 Clusters can be important drivers of regional

competitiveness and innovation.

 Clusters are considered to increase the

productivity with which companies can compete, nationally and globally

 BCN includes more than 170 cluster

• rganizations and support institutions from all
• f the Balkans.

BCN membership is free of charge.

 The Cluster House Info Centre has more than

3000 contacts with economic development experts, institutions and companies.

C2C B2B

PROJECTS FUNDS NEW MARKETS

 Cluster House developed a model for SMEs and

clusters in transitional countries that encourages synergetic effects of the CBC in the region.

 The model fosters collaboration through

networks, meetings, advisory services, inter- business networks, matchmaking events, and training sessions.

 It brings international markets closer by way of

joint promotion at trade fair, advice on internationalization strategies and market visits.

 A part of Global TCI Network, Barcelona, Spain

www.tci-network.org

 TCI Network is the leading global network

with 9000 leading practitioners from over 110 countries, over 700 cluster initiatives worldwide

 The 18th TCI Global Conference will take place

in Daegu (Republic of Korea) on 3-6 November 2015.

ORGANIC CLUSTERS IN EGYPT

 there exists around 116 unregistered clusters

in Egypt, which employ around 850,000 labours.

 The project would enable identification and

mapping of clusters in Egypt, selection of six potential clusters for growth

 The cluster selection stage will be based on

Cluster House approach

MEDITERRANEAN WINE CLUSTER INITIATIVE

 “Days of Clusters 2014” in Tekirdağ was

enriched with the session "Cross-border wine cooperation", which brought together top wine producers from the Mediterranean, the Balkans and the Black Sea Region.

MEDITERRANEAN WINE CLUSTER INITIATIVE

 Cluster approach of connecting wine makers

in Turkey and the region will contribute to increasing competitiveness and penetrating markets and to draw worldwide attention

 Cluster House is developing "The Wine

Learning Trip to Urla Region” that will discover potentials of wine and olive production in the Urla Peninsula to similar producers from other parts of Balkan and Black Sea region, 3-6 June, 2015 JOIN US!!

 The Cluster House approach is practical. It is

showing benefits from clustering to partners through visible outputs.

 The strong promotional support of the

institutions: global TCI network in Barcelona, Austrian Clusterland, TMG-DanuClus Danube strategy and ECCP, has contributed to the cluster networking in the Balkans-Black Sea- Mediteranian region and the promotion of the region in Europe and worldwide.

VI BALKAN-BLACK SEA-MEDITERANNIAN CONFERENCE “DAYS OF CLUSTERS 2015” OCTOBER 22 – 23, 2015 http://daniklastera.clusterhouse.rs/ FOR BETTER LIFE IN THE REGION Your Cluster House

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