Italian Innovation Week - Cluster Change and Improvement Workshop, 1 - 3 December 2003

Innovation Clusters: A Learning Process towards the Knowledge Society

PROGRAMME

Monday December 1
12:00 -  Time for meetings between projects and local actors.
13:00 -  Registration
• Before the event
14:00 -  Opening. State of the art of the clustering process. What has happened since Luxembourg.
• Presentation
• Mr Paolo Martinez said that over 15 countries are represented.
• Mr Francisco Fernandez
• Presenting the survey resultats and the clusters
16:00 - 18:45 First group work for selection of issues and problems for the interest groups within the cluster
• Group work in preliminary cluster groups
19:15 -  Cocktail party
• Happy cluster-people
20:30 -  Social dinner

Tuesday December 2
09:00 -  Parallel working groups to develop integrated cluster action plans
• Members of the cluster groups
11:30 -  Progress presentations from the groups
• Presentation of the eucluster-tool
• Presentations from groups
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
• What did people do between the different scheduled activities?
14:30 -  Brainstorming activities (with some online feedback from other projects and organisations belonging to the cluster but not participating).
16:30 - 17:15 Presentation of the clustering ideas and actions
• Presentations from the different groups
18:45 -  Time for meetings between projects and with local actors

Wednesday December 3
09:00 -  Operationalisation of the cluster strategy and plan of the continued activities.
12:00 -  Presentation of the cluster strategy and action plan with invited guest from local SMEs, research and technology bodies and social and political actors.
• Cluster strategy
13:00 -  Closure

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