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Intellectual Property Management: 61 patents filed (35 licensed), 66 assisted companies, interaction with 150 researchers.
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International networking activities (e.g. SME Pact).
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Clustering projects between ICT companies for product developments (e.g. Infomobility Cluster).
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Setting up of Venture Capital funds, Piemontech and Innogest Capital, for a total amount of € 85 million.
Success factors. --
virtuous integration of all key innovation players, great capacity to gather local interests and skills and to make them added values in wider working contexts such as national clusters or EU projects.
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high competence in the sectors involved; ownership at regional level of thematic that are top priorities for the EU Commission and enjoy best economic outlooks (i.e. Smart Cities and Smart Communities, Living Labs and PCP projects).
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effective cluster internationalization process, thanks a consistent participation to EU territorial cooperation and direct funding programmes (i.e involvement of Piemonte SMEs in Living Labs cross-border initiatives through the ALCOTRA programme) and to consolidated strategic relationships with similar clusters in non-EU countries (Australia, Canada, Colombia, USA).
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good feedback into regional policies and programmes (in particular ex-ante evaluation, support in the ROP implementation, support in the call for proposal target to MSMEs etc..).
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Low involvement of end-user in open innovation processes; Criteria for evaluation (Aspiration list)
Qualitative evaluation scale applied, ordered in ascending rank of value: Irrelevant – Insufficient – Satisfactory -- Good – Very Good - Excellent: a. Transferability: VERY GOOD (the cluster model is easy to transfer if availability to cooperate exists in the territory). b. Feedback into policy: GOOD feedback in the programming and ex-ante evaluation phase. c. Quadruple helix: INSUFFICIENT (they are still working based on a triple helix model); the involvement of end users representatives is one of the key challenges for the next years. d. Higher quality of services and saving public healthcare money! GOOD (i.e see project
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