N°18 - September 2005

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Rhône-Alpes Packaging
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Design & Marque
Contact : lucile.bourlet@cercledesignmarque.com

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In this issue...
HEADLINE
NETWORK NEWS

CDIF opened to the competitiveness’ centres
LPS and Competitiveness’ centres: analysis of the results on the appeal to governmental projects
European exchanges inter clusters in Hungary

LOCAL INITIATIVE

A platform of services and logistic textile to “Profession Mode” Marseille
Success to the Spanish/ Basque Country‘s economy thanks to the clusters
Inter pole cooperation: case of CAMDIB and Mecanic Vallée

PUBLIC ACTION

Competitiveness centres: starting sustained project and bill proposal
National LPS Committee
Launching of a survey on the innovation and LPSs
Prospecting commercial tax credit

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

On October 12th, 13th 2005, Futur&Tic show, Jaunay-Clan (86)
On October 20th 2005, meeting forum of Mecatronic Seine-Amont, Val de Marne (94)
From the 7th till the 11th of November 2005, 8th TCI annual conference, Hong Kong
,November 28, 29, 30th 2005, 9th European biotechnologies meeting, Lille (59)

PUBLICATION Deed meeting C.Blanc of December 2nd 2004
The CDIF’s notebooks
   

 

Headline


Success of the CDIF meeting on June 1st and 2nd 2005 in Saint Etienne
Despite a difficult context (change of government after the referendum on the European Constitution SNCF strikes on June 2nd), meetings widely answered to the member’s expectations.
More than 350 congress participants listened to the testimonies of more than 90 experts and network representatives. Both round table and 8 workshops gave away to a very dynamic technical discussion and the forum of the alliance encouraged to casual exchanges.
A sign of the success of the event, the unanimous wish to see these renewed meeting, therefore the CDIF committed with the principle agreement of his main partners particularly the DATAR.
These Saint Etienne’s meetings were the occasion to make reports and to spread messages, notably:
- The role reminder of LPSs as a mode of economic development of territories
- The revealing of links and common point between LPS and competitiveness centres
- The necessary development of the monitoring capacities to allow the SMEs to position better on the market
- The interest of collectives’ actions in Human Resources and training to privilege the excellence and to reduce the risk of relocation
- The commitment of regions (like Rhone Alpes) to support the inter company’s dynamics of production and clusters.
Soon available deeds

Deeds are in a final phase.
They will be online on www.cdif.fr at the beginning of October. They will be accessible under three sizes:
- The complete discussions, downloadable in a pdf file.
- Testimonies and interventions selected by round table and workgroup, downloadable in a pdf file.
- Audio sequences, listened directly on the CDIF website in the MP3 size

Already available one the CDIF web page: synthesis note of meeting in the press.

 
Network News


CDIF opened to the competitiveness’ centres

The CDIF held, on September 27th 2005, his annual general assembly. On this occasion, the club’s members decided to open the association to the competitiveness’ centres who had recently a label. The CDIF counting among his members 9 competitiveness’ centres and 11 LPSs who are involved in centres (see list), it was natural that it adapts itself to his new deal. The CDIF’s statuses were modified and its program of actions adapted consequently.
A college “competitiveness’ centres” is then created within the CDIF. The first meeting of exchanges will take place at the end of October/beginning of November. This college will also entertain analysis works and propositions that the comité d’orientation stratégique et prospective (COSP) will formulate that the CDIF launches during this second half of the year 2005.
To know more about it, contact xavier.roy@cdif.fr .



LPS and Competitiveness’ centres: analysis of the results on the appeal to governmental projects

The analysis of 67 competitiveness’ centres retained by CIADT on July 12th shows that a big number of competitiveness’ centres integrates one (possibly some) LPS with a label or not. The degree of involvement of LPSs in the competitiveness’ centres is variable. Some competitiveness’ centres merge with a LPS (examples: Pôle enfant du Choletais, Cosmetic Valley, Metaladour, Mecatronic Seine-Amont, Silicon Sentier, Clubtex, Pôle Marine Loire-Atlantique…). Some other LPSs are associated to no competitiveness’ centres. For all that, they could become centres, as indicated by M.Mirabaud, delegated to the regional development and the regional action during his intervention in Saint Etienne, with a policy of incentive in the innovation and in the economic intelligence.



European exchanges inter clusters in Hungary
Within the context of the Regins project, supported by the European program Interreg IIIc, the agency of regional development of Transdanubie west, organize on October 17th & 18th 2005, in Sopron ( Hungary / Austria border, 60 km from Vienna) a seminar of European exchanges inter clusters. The aim of this event: favour partnerships and facilitate the Benchmark between Hungarian, Austrian, German (region of the Baden-Württemberg/Stuttgart), Italian (Lombardy),’ networks. LPS and French centre’s presenters are warmly invited to join the meeting and the different workgroups. Thematic fields of the associated clusters are not limited even if the domains of clusters, involve into the Regins project depend more from wood, from motorcar, from the mecatronic, from the biotechnology, from the NTIC, from the logistic…
Read the temporary program of the seminar on October 17th & 18th 2005, Hungary.
Read the temporary list of participants.
To know more about this seminar and join, contact : Nicolas Szechenyi
More information on the Regins project :www.regins.com

Local Initiatives


A platform of services and logistic textile to “Profession Mode” Marseille
The LPS Profession Mode Marseille prepare for the springtime 2006, a platform of services and logistic in Marseille. The ambition of the project is to develop an advanced tool based on a global offer of services.
This offer included a logistic service, a platform’s base and three types of services:
1) An industrial service covering the whole process (conception, follow up of the process, the marketing)
2) A functional service including all the intellectual services which are not integrated into the process of production but which establish nowadays essentials resources
3) A service of support for the creation of new companies, to conduct them in their methods, thanks to a nursery, an offer of specific software and “tissuthèque”, an innovation service
For more information, contact Annie Carai: a.carrai-spl@wanadoo.fr

 


Success to the Spanish/ Basque Country‘s economy thanks to the clusters
Last June, Bayonne, Basque country’s CCI organized a meeting on the subject: “competitiveness’ centre to revitalize French economy? Clusters success in Spanish/Basque country”. The meeting notably leaned on a survey led by l’institut France-Euskadi. The objective of the association is to promote the economic cooperation between the Spanish Basque country and the French one. Success’s keys of those Basque’s clusters, results of the Basque government voluntarist policy, which followed the recommendations of Michael Porter:
- Be structured around some well identified intervention’s fields (research programs, standards quality, training programs)
- Benefit a strong support from authorities for a while and collective group.
- Be opened to the international.
This survey presents three clusters models in domains of “machine tool”, “motorcar”, and “aeronautic”.
Download the press folder on the France-Euskadi website.

 


Inter pole cooperation: case of CAMDIB and Mecanic Vallée
The intensification of the subcontracting industry is one of the common subjects of Camdib and Mecanic vallée. Further to many exchanges between these networks (especially within the framework of the thematic group “metals” of the CDIF) and the crossed visits recently realized, crossed transfers are now envisaged. Mecanic vallée is interested by the test of manufacturing big speed (UGV) learning platform and developed welding by the bitteroise field.
Camdib, for his part, wishes to participate to the future “central mechanic space,” research centre announced by Mecanic Vallée to facilitate the transfers of technology and the strengthened project by the recently selected competitiveness centres VIA MECA. A crossed partnership is in the process of construction.

Public Action


Competitiveness centres: starting sustained project and bill proposalde
>> After the announcement of the label on July 12 of this year, the Prime Minister spread a circular dated August 2nd 2005 to region’s prefects, on the procedure of the competitiveness centre’s implantation. Prefects had notably for mission to set up, for each centre, “a committee of coordination” composed of state’s representatives, centre and territorial community.
Download the circular

>> Christian Blanc, representative of Yveline, introduce to the National Assembly a bill proposal relative to the economy of the innovation. The success of the projects appeal on the competitiveness centres highlighted a strong capacity of mobilisation from actors of the growth. However, Christian Blanc hopes that his steps will receive a wide support and that it allows accelerating the French rocking into the innovation’s economy.
Read the bill proposal



National LPS Committee
Following the appeal on LPS projects of 1998-1999 and further the LPSs World Congress of 2001, the DATAR, created the “national LPS committee”. This committee supervises the LPSs development policy and decides on the financial support for some projects. The role was strengthened by the CIADT of September 2004, which reserved FNADT’s means to support a new LPS or to consolidate those existing. In 2005, this committee met 4 times and had supported 5 new LPSs (Capital game, Pôle eco-industrie d’Alès, Technicmarine, Pôle legumes du Santerre-Haute Somme, Ouest Granit Innovation) and Mecartois (emergent project). Some LPSs benefited a support for the strengthening (as Technic Vallée and the Cluster de la Glisse).
Next meeting of the national LPS committee scheduled on October 18 2005.
Download the standard file to create a financing request with the CNS, click here (DATAR‘s website)
To know more about it, contact paulette.pommier@datar.gouv.fr



Launching of a survey on the innovation and LPSs

The DATAR has just launched a survey concerning LPSs innovation. This mission, entrusted to the scientific management centre of the “Ecole des Mines” in Paris, aims to have elements of understanding on the necessary conditions so that a LPS get involve durably in the way of innovation (of product, process, marketing, etc.). Two LPSs have been chose and will be the object of case survey: the Medical Technologies Centre and the Pole Plasturgie de Sainte Sigolène. The “Ecole des Mines” of Paris plans to investigate with companies, animation structure and LPSs partners (notably those having responsibilities in the technological transfer, the training or the research).
To know more about it contact paulette.pommier@datar.gouv.fr


 


Prospecting commercial tax credit
Companies group can now benefit to the export tax credit (CIE) in the same condition as SMEs, but with an amount divided into two: 80K€ instead of 40K€ for the individual companies. A condition of eligibility: the association must be subject to the company tax and GIEs.
CIE’s objective: institution of a tax credit to encourage SMEs to get over an important step of the international development by the commercial prospecting apart from the European Economic Area while encouraging them to do recruitment based on the export.
The export tax credit intervenes in 50% of the amount of eligible expenses. The obtaining of a tax credit is subject to the recruitment of a person allocated to the export development or recruiting an international volunteer in company allocating the same vision.
The eligible expenses are: fees and allowances of travel and accommodation connected to the commercial prospecting; monitoring expenses markets/customers; participating expenses to shows and fairs; expenses on the collective communication on products and services offered by the group.
For more information: http://districts-industriels.com/docs/CIE.pdf or www.missioneco.org

Practical Information
 
Agenda
 

On October 12th, 13th 2005, Futur&Tic show, Jaunay-Clan (86)
Organized for the second consecutive year by the Seuil du Poitou Numérique (SPN) to support the local companies’ activity of the Tic sector, this professional demonstration will welcome around fifty exhibitors who will present their expertise, products and services in the domain of the computer development, networks engineering, image treatment, data bases, Website… Stands and workshops will take place during these two days on practical subjects: improve the traffic on Internet, the electronic invoice, recruit on line co-workers, freeware, the telephony by Internet, data safety…
Contact: Lisa Harel, lisa.harel@spn.asso.fr. More information and registration: http://www.futur-tic.com.
 


On October 20th 2005, meeting forum of Mecatronic Seine-Amont, Val de Marne (94)
On its 5th anniversary, Mecatronic Seine-Amont organizes its 4th meeting forum giver – industrial subcontractors. Two industrials stars projects will be there presented, realised within the framework of Mecatronic SA: Bionoface projects, and UCPA Climbing wall. A round table on the subject “LPSs and SMEs networks: what assets and what stakes within the context of the industrial policy and the competitiveness centres?” will close the day.
Download the invitation to the forum. More information with Hélène Rambert, contact@mecatronic-sa.com.

 


From the 7th till the 11th of November 2005, 8th TCI annual conference, Hong Kong
To know more about it: click here
The 9th edition will take place in Lyon in 2006.

 

November 28, 29, 30th 2005, 9th European biotechnologies meeting, Lille (59)
Eurasante and the biologie-santé centre of the Nord Pas de Calais region organize the 9th European meeting of Biotechnologies; more than 4000 persons, 300 exhibitors and 200 speakers around conferences (sciences, business and economy, training and career), shows, business agreement and a recruitment agreement (new this year).
More information on http://www.carrefoureuropeendesbiotechnologies.com/
 
Publications
 


Deed meeting C.Blanc of December 2nd 2004
Deeds of the meeting “the new keys of the growth,” organized by C.Blanc are available. Download them.

 


The CDIF’s notebooks
On the meeting on June 1st and 2nd 2005, in Saint Etienne, the CDIF created the “CDIF’s notebooks”. In proportion as the work of case survey and of thematic capitalization led within the context of his function of RESOURCES CENTRE serving the LPSs, clusters, competitiveness’ centres…, from now on, the CDIF will published its reports in this “collection”.

>> Are already appeared:
- CDIF’s notebook n°1 “LPS and HR: collective plans of training”
- CDIF’s notebook n°2 “LPSs financial structure”
- CDIF’s notebook n°3 “Collective management of the HR in the LPSs”
- CDIF’s notebook n°4 “Built a collective folder training/HR”
- CDIF’s notebook n°5 “Introduce, form, develop a companies networks; a specific profession of animation”

>> Are planned to the apparition before the end of 2005, some notebooks on those subjects:
- Deed of the meeting “Companies network and territories’ competences and competitiveness” in June 1st and 2nd 2005, Saint Etienne
- Monitoring and innovation in territorial networks of companies
- The innovation in the textile networks
- The financing of collectives tools coming from the actions of companies networks
For more information or to get you a “CDIF’s notebook” contact the CDIF: contact@cdif.fr

 


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