The Danish Cluster Policy
2012
2013
The Danish Cluster Strategy
Focus areas
1. Coordination Forum for cluster policy
2. Professional and excellent cluster organizations
3. Strong international collaboration
Coordination Forum for cluster policy
Participants:
The 5 Danish regions, 3 large municipalities
8 Danish ministries, The Innovation Fund,
And a few more…
Lead by DASTI
Cluster Excellence Denmark
Focus areas:
Supporting clusters and networks with their competence development,
professionalisation and internationalisation.
Offer a range of services to the cluster managements
Financed jointly by the Ministry (½) and the six regions (½)
Selected after EU-tender
Budget: 0,7 Mill. Euros a year
 Have the aim of creating growth and knowledge
based development for a group of companies.
 Have an active participation of triple helix actors –
companies, public institutions and knowledge
institutions.
 Have an formal organisation of the cluster (with at
least 1 FTE) that can supply services and activities for
the participants on a long term basis.
 Have a member base of minimum 20 dedicated
companies
 Have at least the bronze label.
Internationalisation
All Danish clusters have been benchmarked (NGP-project)
6 Danish clusters have achieved the gold label (first re-certfication) and 2 has the silver
label
Working closely with Enterprise Europe Network
Innovation Express program: Small grants for clusters to make cross border collaboration
with other clusters (50 – 80.000 Euros)
32 innovation express projects in 2011 – collaboration with 35 different clusters abroad
(6 Austrian clusters)
Yearly matchmaking conference for clusters and networks
Cluster collaboration: DK – SH - Skåne
Strategic inter-regional project:
•FBÖ TransTechTrans initiative
DK-SH Cluster-to-cluster projects: Innovation Express:
•Food Network - Food Industry Cluster Schleswig-Holstein
•Biopeople – Food Regio
DK-Skåne cluster-to cluster projects:
•Food Network – Packbridge
•Service Cluster Denmark - IDEON Agro Food
•Biopeople - Medicon Village
•Food Network – IDEON Agro Food
•MedTech Innovation - Teknopol/Mobile Heights Business Center (e-health)
•Creative Energy Alliance - Animation Hub - LU Open Innovation Center and Media Evolution
Innovation Network Denmark
The Idea:
Create platforms for companies and research institutes to exchange
knowledge and enter into collaboration project
Objectives:
1. Increase innovation in SMEs
2. Improve R&D-collaboration
3. Create growth within leading Danish industries
The Innovation Network program
Total grants about 10 Mil. Euro per year
Bottom up approach
4 year grants - good possibilities of extensions
About 0.5-0.7 Mil. € per network per year
Grants are for:
• Operating costs for secretariat
• Matchmaking and knowledge sharing activities
• Development of collaboration and innovation projects
The 22 Innovation Networks:
Are nation-wide (not regional)
Open for all interested parties
Averagely 300 companies in each network and 9 knowledge
institutions – but a lot of variation
Focus on a technology or a business area
Some are ”traditional” clusters - others are cross-sectorial
Together they form an infrastructure
The 22 Innovation Networks 2014-2018
Cluster Policy in Denmark - 18th
of March 2015
So….
what have the Innovation Networks
accomplished?
Yearly Performance Accounts
Scientific based impact study (2011)
A survey among the company members of the networks (2014)
Performance results for
Innovation Networks
Performance measure
2010
2013
No. of enterprises partipating in networks
3,100
6,900
No. of enterprises participating in collaboration projects
900
1,600
No. of enterprises which have developed new products, services or
processes
300
780
The Danish Cluster Strategy – looking ahead
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Establishing 3 Cluster Leagues – world class clusters, national champions and emerging
champions
Further internationalisation
Increased cross-cluster and cross-sectorial collaboration (new growth areas - emerging
industries)
Clusters should play a more strategic role in the innovation system (coordination with
other innovation policy instruments)
Develop sustainable financing models and securing adequate financing