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"Company
networks and Regions : Skills and Competitiveness"–
1 and 2 June 2005 in Saint Etienne
The
French Industrial Districts Club (CDIF) is organising
the conference "Company
networks and Regions : Skills and Competitiveness"
with the particular support of the DATAR
and the French
Ministries for Employment and Industry.
This event aims to promote encounters between company regional
networks, their companies and their financiers so that they
can exchange their good practices and question each other
about strategic trends to apply to their initiative.
As with centres of competitiveness, the issue is to show that
it is from regional resources and close co-operation that
companies draw their components of differentiation and competitiveness.
In effect, “priceless” competitive advantages,
based on the innovation and specific character of products
or services, become more sustainable determining components
for creating value than the simple “cost” factor
for companies.
This conference will also enable company networks to be repositioned
in the context of the new national industrial policy and will
prove their effectiveness as an economic development tool
at the service of companies, territoires and regions.
Gilles De Robien,
Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Planning Minister,
plans to use the occasion to
announce the next stage in the implementation of the CIADT
of September 2004. These encounters will therefore
form an important forum between the expression of needs of
the LPSs and the public policies that will accompany them
tomorrow.
Thematic round tables
and workshops will
enable the “key” concerns of the company networks
to be broached with specific
examples (e.g.: service strategy, strategic
monitoring, the leading role of networks, financial strategies,
collective management of human resources and the internationalisation
of SMEs).
A "Forum of Alliances"
will also give companies, laboratories
and network leading institutions the opportunity
to meet, reveal their expertise, exchange their projects of
innovation and anticipate business partnerships.
For more information or to give suggestions, contact us at:
contact@cdif.fr
You will soon be able to follow the constant progress of the
preparation for the Encounters on the CDIF
web-site.
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Partnerships
with East-German clusters
Through
the first contacts established between the CDIF
and the IIC
agency (Industrial Investment Council) in Berlin, French
LPSs and clusters from the new East-German Länders are currently
being brought closer together. Eastern Germany has many clusters
in various fields such as biotechologies (Saxe, Brandebourg), the
automotive industry (Saxe-Anhalt, Thuringe), the nautical industry
(Mecklenbourg-Poméranie occidentale) and nanotechnologies
(Berlin).
These rapprochements aim to develop intercluster partnerships on
additional skills, in industrial sub-contracting in particular.
CDIF Contact: xavier.roy@cdif.fr
and IIC contact:Lehmann@iic.de
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Rhone-Alpes
Automotive Cluster
Rhone-Alpes
Automotive Cluster was launched on 29 November 2004 in
Lyon at an encounter day between all the regional automotive actors,
with sponsorship from Irisbus, Renault Trucks and Plastic Omnium.
Overall, automotive construction in the Rhone-Alpes region (lorries,
commercial vehicles, buses, coaches, cars and special vehicles)
mobilises more than 1,000 companies and 100,000 jobs, making it
the 3rd French region in this field. The ambition of this cluster
is to enhance the competitiveness of all the actors in the industry.
Three task forces have been set up with this in mind: organisational
innovation and performance, technological innovation and company
internationalisation.
In particular, this cluster aims to increase exchanges between companies,
research, technical centres, higher education, professional training
and economical development institutions. It also seeks to promote
regional expertise on the national and international scale.
Specific initiatives have already been launched: an initiative on
spreading the use of EDI/Web EDI, a grouped survey move on the Indian
market and identified technological projects will receive funding.
Contact: contact@automotive-cluster.fr
and http://www.automotive-cluster.fr
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The
Lower Normandy Regional Council wishes to support the development
of company networks thanks to the Contrat de Plan Etat-Région
In
its new economic policy, the
Lower Normandy Regional Council supports the development
of company networks. Based on the success of the four LPSs already
present in its area (Pôle
Mécanique Sud Normandie, Vallée
des Alliages, Institut
Supérieur du Moule, LPS
de la Quincaillerie), Bernard Cazeneuve, first vice-president
of the Regional Council, announced his commitment at a conference
on 16 June 2004 in Caen to create appropriations specifically dedicated
to company networks in the Contrat de Plan Etat-Région. The
objective is to sustain existing initiatives and to create new ones.
In its 2005 budget, the Regional Council has therefore provided
for the support of the setting up of centres of competitiveness,
as well as for the promotion of innovation by a rapprochement between
the worlds of research and industry. These two focal points of work
should see the emergence of inter-company co-operative dynamics
that will help them to become established in the region.
Contact: p.hubert@crbn.fr
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With
the ESF, an appeal for “Employment and Regions” projects
The
Ministry
for Employment has launched a request for proposals
with the support of the ESF (Objective 3, measure 10A) aiming
to support local employment initiatives of local development bodies
(Comités de bassin d'emploi , Pays (regions, encompassing
towns and départements), Agglomérations (urban areas)
and LPS leading institutions). These proposals should enable local
action plans to be set up between public and private actors of
the territoire around the employment theme.
The request for proposals finances engineering expenses in particular,
permitting the effective establishment of partnerships, the production
of tools necessary for analysing the needs of the territoire in
terms of employment and activity, the assistance of emergence
and the enhancement of innovative initiatives.
The project bearers should contribute up to a maximum of 50% of
the engineering expenses. Aid brought by the ESF is €75,000
maximum per annum. The ESF co-finances the projects for a maximum
period of 36 months.
Closing date for applications: 30 September 2005
For more information: click
here
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Upcoming events |
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8 to 10 March 2005,
Mecasemaine 2005 (Rhone-Alpes)
With its partners, the CEBEI has organised the Mecasemaine 2005
on 8, 9 and 10 March in Lyon with an international conference, Innovmeca,
on “innovative processes”, and in Saint-Etienne with
a business convention, Processmeca.
Exchanges and encounters around these two events have been of a
high quality and, let’s hope, will provide sources of business
in the very near future for the companies of LPS Mécaloire.
The LPS
Mécaloire specialises in constructing complex
units in the industrial goods sector and federates 50 companies.
For more information: http://www.cebei.org,
sections Mécasemaine and/or Mécaloire.
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27 and 28 April 2005,
Convention of Microtechniques and Precision Techniques (Besançon)
The
LPS
Microtechnique du Grand Besançon is hosting Micronove,
the trade show for actors involved directly or indirectly in the
field of precision techniques and microtechniques.
Special registration conditions may be granted to companies who
are LPS
members of the CDIF.
Contact Alain Ngoie for information on:angoie@adhes.com
To find out more about the convention: http://www.micronove.com
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2 and 3 June 2005,
Micropackaging Days 2005 of CREMSI (STUniversity at Fuveau)
For
the third year in a row, the LPS Microélectronique de Provence
• Alpes • Côte d'Azur (100 companies, 4,200 employees,
led by the CREMSI
(Regional Centre for Research in Silicon Microelectronics), is organising
two technical and scientific days on the theme of electronic microassembly.
The lectures will go over themes such as sensor packaging, printing
techniques and delwafer level packaging.
This event will also give participants the opportunity to hear about
the latest innovations.
The LPS Microélectroniques encompasses around 100 establishments
(4,200 employees) and relies on leading companies like ST Microelectronics,
Gemplus and Texas Instruments.
Contact: corinne.joachim@cremsi.org
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Publications |
The
Beffa Report • "For a new industrial policy"
In
his report submitted to the President of the Republic, Jean Louis
Beffa (Managing Director of Saint Gobain) focuses on the lack
of research effort in France in comparison with its competitors
and its over-specialisation in low technology sectors. He therefore
advocates a support policy for industries of high technology through
programmes calling on the co-ordination of public and private
actors and enabling means of European co-operation to be set up.
To download the report: http://www.rapport-jeanlouisbeffa.com
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A
web-site for centres of competitiveness
The
DATAR and the MINEFI (Ministry for the Economy, Finance and Industry)
have just created a web-site dedicated to centres of competitiveness.
It contains information on the general policy relating to centres
of competitiveness as well as initiatives for requests for proposals.
The site also contains useful information for LPSs with the presentation
of different requests for European and national proposals, such
as "Regions of knowledge 2”.
The web-site: http://www.competitivite.gouv.fr
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"The
law for giving your business a boost", Thibault Du Manoir
De Juaye, Editions d'organisation, 2004
In
his book, the author, chief editor of the review "Reflections
on economic intelligence", places the law as a strategic
tool for companies and reconsiders, amongst other things, the
different company forms of intercompany alliances (Simplified
Joint Stock Companies, Economic Interest Group, European Limited
Liability Company) and contractual forms (Joint Venture, Holding
Companies, Contracts for the transfers of technology).
Contact: juaye@france-lex.com
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