1. Emilie Parthoens
Ingrid Chalant
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2. Presentation overview
1) Cluster with T&L specificities
2) T&L innovation process : particularities
• Concrete example in biotech
3) How to arise innovation in our sector?
• Where do our choices come from?
• Which connection with reality?
4) Focus on best practices
5) General conclusions
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3. 1. Cluster with own specificities
• Transversal : present in all fields of economy
> Various competencies & heterogeneous public
• Logistics is internal or external
• Important concurrency
> Challenge for the cluster
• Market cluster : demand- and user- focused
> One demand = One reality = One answer/solution
• Innovation is not endogenous
> The cluster proposes « long term » solutions and visions
> It must focus action on innovation

4. 2. Innovation process in T&L
Short term Mid & Long term
Non- techno
Shippers
Proactivity
Proactivity
T&L T&L
Sector Cluster
Techno needs
Projet
ideas
Technology
Providers

5. A concrete example in biotech
Short term Mid & Long term
Non- techno
Biotech
Proactivity
Proactivity
T&L T&L
Sector Cluster
Techno needs
LiW
projects
Technology
Providers

6. 3. How to arise innovation in our sector?
Chargeurs et donneurs d’ordres
Biotech Agroalim Distribut° Autres
Besoins opérationnels
Transporteurs et logisticiens
Logistics in Wallonia
Solutions innovantes
Equipementiers et fournisseurs de solutions
IT Electronique Matériaux Mécanique

7. 3. How to arise innovation in our sector?
Identifying stakeholders
Putting together Top-Down
Bottom-Up
shippers and (technology
(market pull)
technology offer push)
Workshops, Completing consortia
conferences,
networking Project Personalised support
spaces… ideas
Funding
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8. 4. Focus on best practices
 Loginn coworking groups
Objectives Process/Method Audience Expected results
• Shifting • Small groups • Participants from • Loginn Group
perspectives • One beginning and various economy Identity
• Identifying one end : fields • Future partners
promising niches on > 4 meetings • Heterogeneous who know each
which Walloon skills groups other, and who are
in the sector T, L & • Importance of ready to work and
group membership - Suppliers
M will be positioned innovate together
• Dynamic, active - Scientific and
• Increasing Walloon technological • New project ideas
R&D mass in the and participative
approach partners • New LiW projects
sector T, L & M
• Prospect of open- • In parallel,
• Stimulating an translation process
active network in mind
for the third LiW
the sector T, L & M • Capitalisation and public
in Wallonia abstraction
• Animation by LiW
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9. 4. Focus on best practices
 Stock exchange of project ideas & expertises
Objectives Process/Method Audience Expected results
• Meet & Match • Once a year Members of the cluster • Better knowledge of
• Future collaborative • 3 slides / 3 minutes networks (but not only the landscape
projects LiW members) • Better knowledge of
• Teasing to orient
• Underlining the networking - Who have one or the expertise
competencies times more R&D or present in the
training project sector
• Better define the - Examples ideas
regional landscape • More productive
in terms of - Who have expertise networking slots
competences to valorise in T, L & • More completed
M sectors and who consortia
are searching news
projects / dynamics
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10. 4. Focus on best practices
 Strategic projects
Objectives Process/Method Audience Expected results
• To define priority • 1 mobilising event Participants from • Deliverables:
strategies - concentrated around various economy fields - Strategic working
• To determine 1 mobilising actor among whom: paper
stakeholders’ with an “offbeat - Policy makers - Operational action
affinities for specific look” (philosopher - Suppliers plan
topics or artist)
- Researchers • The cluster takes
• To feed a discussion - feed by experts ones stand as
on : - Technical service
and solutions partner in front of
- state of the art • 1 or 2 working providers regional sensitive
- field problems and sessions subjects and reality
- Students
needs • Project ideas and
- “Wise persons” further funding
- opportunities
operations born
• To take stand from successive
• To show the cluster’s meetings
added value
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11. 4. Focus on best practices
 Loginn coworking groups
 Stock exchange of project ideas & expertises
 Strategic projects
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12. 5. General conclusions
• More than 250 organisation members
• Overall research and training budget : 52 mios EUR
• 17 pending projects
• Projects with more than 124 participations
• Perspectives
o Cluster as a guide for projects partners
o More and more concrete actions
o Competitiveness & innovation as key words
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Emilie Parthoens Ingrid Chalant
Project Manager Log4Green Innovation Officer
epa@logisticsinwallonia.be ich@logisticsinwallonia.be
+32 475 29 93 84 +32 493 25 18 87
Do not hesitate to contact us!
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