Sophia Antipolis: Forum des pôles de compétitivité on 5&6 November
“World Class Clusters: an international innovation strategy”…theme of the 5th forum, organized by the Fondation Sophia Antipolis..
The 5th Forum is welcoming international personalities such as Tea Petrin, Solvenia’s former Economic Minister and President of the European Cluster Policy Group, Frieder Meyer-Krahmer, Germany’s Secretary of State and Federal Minister for Higher Education and Research and M. Min, South Korea’s Minister of Knowledge Economy. And Christian Estrosi, France’s Minister in charge of Industry attended the forum to close the first day’s debates.
The goal of the world-class competitive clusters that were set-up in 2005 is to develop companies capable of bringing innovative and competitive products to market. The clusters have completed the first phase of their strategy and have just embarked on the second, “2.0” phase, which is scheduled for completion in 2011. This new phase is geared at helping boost start up activities, favoring the development of innovation platforms, as well as raising private financial backing. At the international level, the aim is to establish competitive cluster networks in Europe, with Embassadors for the clusters, whose role will be to help develop new markets. Finally, the government is expected shortly to approve new competitive clusters in the green-technologies sector.
The 9th call for projects has also just been launched with the goal of selecting collaborative R&D projects that will receive financial backing. The projects must be submitted before 12h00 on 27 November 2009. The ministers will select the projects after all the projects submitted have been examined by experts and the list of projects selected will be published in early March 2010. The financial assistance awarded to project leaders will be managed by OSEO.
For more information, go to: www.competitivite.gouv.fr : Le lancement du 9e appel à projets de R&D (FUI)
More information: www.sophia-antipolis.org/ poles2competitivite
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