Pôles de compétitivité
Pôles de compétitivité
COMPETITIVENESS CLUSTERS: HAUTE SAVOIE IS INVOLVED WITH FOUR OF THEM
The government launched a request for proposals in late 2004 to boost a new industrial policy combining innovation and industry in France. After reviewing the applications, 71 competitiveness clusters were named by the CIADT (Interministerial Regional Planning and Development Committee) on 12 July 2005 and 5 July 2007.
A competitiveness cluster is, for a given territory :
An association of businesses, research centres, and training organisations, engaged in a partnership approach for identifying synergies around innovative projects carried out jointly toward a given market. This policy aims to promote then support initiatives coming from economic and academic players within a territory. National site for competitiveness clusters : www.competitivite.gouv.fr
The Rhône-Alpes region has 15 competitiveness clusters. In Haute-Savoie, businesses are involved in four of them :
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Arve Industries Haute-Savoie Mont-Blanc
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Imaginove
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Minalogic
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Sporaltec
The Departmental Economic Agency is highly involved in the Arve Industries competitiveness cluster. It co-manages and participates actively in the programmes of this cluster and the pursuit of funding (Department, Region, Nation, Europe, etc.)
ARVE INDUSTRIES HAUTE SAVOIE MONT BLANC
Du décolletage à la mécatronique...
From bar turning to mechatronics…
The economy of Haute-Savoie is dominated by particularly dynamic, innovative industrial activity: Vallée de l’Arve provides more than two-thirds of France’s jobs in the bar turning sector. It offers internationally recognised know-how.
Arve Industries Haute-Savoie Mont Blanc is a true industrial project with strategic components aiming to meet the expectations of businesses and markets. The three main dimensions of the industrial business strategy are taken into account: Processes, Organisation, Innovation and Human Resources.
208 member companies as of May 2008 and 120 projects in action.
More info at : www.arve-industries.com
IMAGINOVE
Led by the trade association Lyon Game in partnership with CITIA, this cluster works to reinforce the legitimacy of France and more particularly Lyon, Annecy, and Valence in the field of digital entertainment. The goal is to double the number of jobs in the sector. Three major cooperation projects are planned.
Imaginove brings together 40% of the French digital entertainment industry, i.e. the top concentration of businesses, employees, and sales figures. In Haute-Savoie, this sector of the future involves twenty businesses with promising futures.
More info at : www.entreprendre.grandlyon.com
MINALOGIC
This worldwide cluster leads and provides the structure of a major space in Grenoble for innovation and specialised skills in the creation, development, and production of products and solutions in the field of intelligent miniaturised services for the industry.
The unprecedented alliance of nanotechnologies and software intelligence makes Minalogic the territory of miniaturised intelligence, from knowledge to activity. This is where the mechatronics companies of Haute-Savoie call home.
+ d'infos : www.minalogic.org
SPORALTEC
This cluster involves industries and equipment for sports and recreation. Sporaltec has a triple ambition : to develop the research capacity of the Rhône-Alpes laboratories involved in the engineering and technologies of sports and recreation, to reinforce the competitiveness of businesses in their markets through innovation, and to become a globally attractive cluster where the sports and recreation practices and equipment of tomorrow are invented. Around forty Haute-Savoie companies are involved.
More info at : sporaltec@pole-medical.com