This document discusses increasing competitiveness through non-conventional partnerships. It describes AXELERA, a competitiveness cluster in France that connects economic actors to develop partnerships between industries, suppliers, universities, and public authorities. The goal is to encourage collaborative innovation for competitive and sustainable solutions in chemistry, environment, and energy industries. AXELERA supports innovation from idea to market through funding, networking, and international collaborations. It aims to promote technology transfer, support commercialization, and help deployment of innovative solutions.

1. Increasing competitiveness through
non-conventional partnerships
Jean-Manuel Mas, AXELERA,
France
Parallel Session 3.3: Articulating Collaboration among Cluster Actors

2. Increasing competitiveness
through
non-conventional partnerships
by AXELERA
Jean-Manuel Mas
18th TCI GLOBAL CONFERENCE
November 2015, Daegu - Korea

3. AXELERA COMPETITIVENESS CLUSTER
Public
Authorities
To increase competitiveness
through collaborative innovation
To connect the economical actors
and develop non conventional
partnership
Clusters
70 competitiveness clusters
in France

4. Public Private collaboration = Non Conventional partnership !
Industries
Suppliers, customers
Large company, SME
Academics
Public
authorities
Technology
transfert
Product
Technology
Service
Publication
Patent
Profit
Collaborative
innovation ? Better
life for
citizens
PRIVATE
PUBLIC
=> Pôle de compétitivité

5. …for the chemical and environmental industries
AXELERA COMPETITIVENESS CLUSTER
A network…
with a drive for Innovation…
Ambition
Create value by encouraging the emergence of
innovative and competitive solutions for the
industry, at the junction of chemistry,
environment and energy

6. Bio-resources and
CO2 for access to
materials or energy
Efficient and competitive
production systems, more
sober in raw-materials and
energy and minimizing wastes
Innovative
products and
materials
development
Waste and end-of-life
products recovery by
implementation of
new recycling
industrial solutions
Industrial and urban
effluents treatment
Quality of water, air,
soil
5 strategic fields linked to the 3 pillars of sustainable development
Environment
Society
Economy

7. AXELERA COMPETITIVENESS CLUSTER
Support for innovation
From ideation ………………………………..…..to Market
Brainstorming workshops,
calls for projects,
search for partners,
certification of R&D projects,
IP training,
support for consortium agreement
Follow up and results valorization
Commercialization

8. Networking and support to business development
“Jeudi d’AXELERA” : social gathering for all the members
Axelera Business Club : business meeting only for companies
AXELERA COMPETITIVENESS CLUSTER
Axelera Invest Club, connecting members and funding partners (public funding
organizations, private investors)
+ Monthly Newsletter, Website with extranet only for members,…

9. Value creation
PHASE 3.0 CHALLENGES
AXELERA COMPETITIVENESS CLUSTER
1- Promote technology transfers from academic research
• Intensifying links with upstream research
2- Support R & D projects valorization
• Promotion for commercialization
3- Support innovation deployment
• Support to business development
1 2 3
International development
1- Interclustering
2- European projects
• SCOT Project (Region of Knowledge) on CO2 valorization – SPIRE (Sustainable Processs Industry)
3- Support companies to access strategic foreign markets
• Missions (Europe, China, Brazil, Marocco),
• Exhibitions,
• Office in Shanghai

10. PROJECTS-RELATED EUROPEAN PROGRAMMES
AXELERA is co-steering this european programme
(EU FP7) with Belgium’s GreenWin cluster
SCOT : Smart CO2 Transformation
In 2012, AXELERA became a partner of this private-public partnership, which aims
faster parnerships in support of this emerging industry by issuing calls for proposals
for R&D projects
SPIRE : Sustainable Process Industry through Resource and Energy Efficiency

11. PROJECT FOCUS
13 partners, 5 SME
48 months (2010-2014)
Budget : 9M€
Actual value creation
5 products developped
1 industrial investment realized
5 full time jobs created during the project at SME’s
Implantation of a new SME near by Lyon in 2015 (société IVEA)
INnovAL
Development of new analytical tools for on-lign control of
industrial chemical processes
A real dynamic created around « Industrial analysis »
Creation of a specific Master degree « Industrial analysis » at Lyon University
2 technical days organized en january 2015 with more than 100 participants
UTILISATEURS
Formulation des besoins
Validation
INSTRUMENTALISTES
Développement
Industrialisation
LABORATOIRES
Recherche

12. µGC - SRA Instruments
LinLIBS - IVEA (analyse élementaire)
Probe Northdome - Avenisense (Micro densimeter)
https://youtu.be/yWNkJSLWdVo
PROJECT FOCUS

13. Thank you
for your attention !