Innovations from Ruhr Metropolis by Rasmus C. Beck from Metropole Ruhr Business at the TCI 2018.

1. Innovations from Ruhr Metropolis
Rasmus C. Beck, Metropole Ruhr Business

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12. LEADING MANUFACTURING AND TECHNOLOGY LOCATION
with industry-leading companies and innovativeSMEs
8,739,806
83,879 km²
1,465,045
16.7
11,980 km²
%
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13. LEADING MANUFACTURING AND TECHNOLOGY LOCATION
with industry-leading companies and innovativeSMEs
28 % Austria‘s top industrial
region
25.4 % No. 1 export region
18 % of Austrian gross value added
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14. Business Upper Austria: Your One-Stop-Shop
Customised services from the business idea to market success

15. Organisational chart
Executive management
WernerPamminger
Investor & Location management
Tanja Spennlingwimmer
Clusters & Networks
Christian Altmann
Research &
innovation grant consultation
Florian Winner
Corporate
communications
Markus Käferböck
Management services
Andreas Lindlbauer
Customer Centre
Werner Pamminger
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Businessdevelopment
AndreaHeiml
Our focus
Policy & Location
strategy
Klaus Oberreiter

16. Cluster and network activities
in Upper Austria

17. Figures - Data - Facts Clusterland
7
2.2
Partner – of that
81%
SME‘s
Contact in the focus
1.950
Company meetings / per
year
529
regional cluster-cooperation
projects with
2.135 companies and
€ 140 Mio. project
volume*.
more than
1.400cooperative
measures
expert knowledge
> 210 events
500 speaker
8.500 participents/year
145 personalities from
industry, science and
education are in the
Advisory Board 30
meetings of the Advisory
Board per year
*since founding in1998
Key issues
internationalisation, lightweight
construction, process
optimization, smart mobility
Smart Plastics, lightweigth
construction, technologies and
optimizing for plastic manufacturing
developing mechatronics systems,
Industry 4.0
service-innovations
innovative timber construction,Design-
competence and process optimizing
for carpenters, distribution
Starting and switching into the
MT, transfer resarche, economy,
MT and IT
energy- & environmental
technology, internationalisation ,
recycling economy
Data security, digitization,
software-quality
Combining work and family life
international HRM,
organisation development
Innovative packaging
QM
Food law
settlement and site
management, Accelerator–
Business Incubation

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International visibility and reputation
GOLD-LABEL certification for excellent cluster management
34 invitations for
lectures and
workshops at national
and international
cogresses*
28 delegations
received from europe,
asia and USA*
42 project
submissions with
nationalen and
european funding
programme*
*2015
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20. TANKER
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21. Security & Continuity
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MEGATREND:
CONNECTIVITY
Augmented
Reality
Real-Digital
E-Commerce
Pop-upMoney
Carsharing
Crowdfunding
Fintech
Advanced
Manufacturing
Big
Data
Cyber
crime
Privacy
Predictive
Analytics
Selftracking
E-Health
Open
Innovation
Internetof
Things
Social
Networks
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23. SPEEDBOAT
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24. Agility & SPEED
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25. Both approaches
needed
1. TRACE
RESEARCH
2. MAKE YOURSELF
AFORERUNNER
3. INTEGRATETHE
ENVIRONMENT
4. SUPPORTTHEWILLING
AND MAKE THEM
ROLEMODELS
5. MAKE THE
PROGRESS
MEASURABLE
AND
STANDARDIZED
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26. The Connection
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27. Welcome to
Brainport Eindhoven
Tim Daniels
Project Manager
Brainport Development N.V.

28. INTRODUCING BRAINPORT EINDHOVEN
• High tech ecosystem
• Close co-operation
• Open innovation
• Accelerating growth
• Smart society
• Thriving community
• World-class hotspot

29. BRAINPORT’S ECOSYSTEM

30. SHARE IN DUTCH COMPETITIVENESS

31. KEYSTONES OF THE DUTCH ECONOMY

32. TECHNOLOGY DOMAINS
• High-Tech Systems
• Food & Food Processing
• Automotive
• Renewable Energies
• Medtech
• Information Technology

33. Clusters in the ecosystem

34. SMART: INNOVATIVE COMPANIES BRAINPORT

35. Futureproof Manufacturing Industry
• Started early 2018
• Specific focus on SMEs
• Connecting and anchoring

36. Why?
• Entrepreneurs / businesses focussed on today’s tasks rather than
tomorrow’s challenges
• Turn to each other for answers & support
• Unaware of support schemes or opportunities
• Lack of organisational power
• Ensure competitive position of Brainport

37. Why?
• Bringing together entrepreneurs from the wider manufacturing sector
• Tackling common challenges
- 1. Growth despite a shortage of personnel
- 2. New business models
- 3. ...
• Bottom-up input
• Bridging gaps in the regional ecosystem

38. Thank you!
Tim Daniels
Project Manager
M: +31 6 27 22 74 69
E: t.daniels@brainportdevelopment.nl
Brainport Development N.V.
Emmasingel 11
5611 AZ, Eindhoven
www.brainporteindhoven.com

39. Lessons learned
• Entrepreneurs speak the same language – interaction
between them is key
• Have a clear strategy and ensure commitment
• Combined bottom-up & top-down approach works
• No clear-cut recipe for success
Join us!
Rasmus C. Beck
beck@business.metropoleruhr.de
Christoph Matthias Reiss-Schmidt
Christoph.reiss-Schmidt@biz-up.at
Tim Daniels
t.daniels@brainportdevelopment.nl