Networks

Interactions and cooperations between companies, scientific institutions and educational establishments are ideal hotbeds for innovations. Clusters and networks are thus becoming ever more important as instruments of innovation and economic promotion and locational marketing. VDI/VDE-IT looks back on long-standing and well-founded experience with building and managing networks on regional, national and international levels.            

Projects

• EPoSS – European Technology Platform on Smart Systems Integration
• ESCA – The European Secretariat for Cluster Analysis
• Industrial Network Renewable Energies Saxony
• IRISS - Implementation of Research and Innovation on Smart Systems Technologies
• The Kompetenznetze Deutschland Initiative

Publications

• An Empirical Based Insight View on Emergence, Financing, Management and Competitiveness of the Most Innovative Clusters in Germany
• Cluster and network evaluation. Current practical examples
• Clusters as instruments for the initiation of R&D activities between Germany and Korea
• Continuity, stability and efficiency – how networks and clusters can be sustainably successful
• European Clusters go International – Networks and clusters as instruments for the initiation of international business cooperation
• German-Polish Network-based R&D-Co-operation. Enablers and Barriers
• Quality Enhanced Cluster Management. A New Indicator Based Peer Review Approach for the Mutual Development of Cluster Organisational Excellence
• Sharing knowledge and gaining new markets: Practical guide on “Innovation Management in Networks”