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Skill development services & business models for cluster organizationsTor-Arne Bellika
Academic Summit: Innovation and business models in clusters
5 September 2013
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Skill development services & business models for cluster organizations
Addressing skills and jobs challenges in Europe through skill services in Cluster Organizations.
Tor-Arne Bellika, Innovation Performance AS, NorwayGilbert Peffer, CIMNE Barcelona, SpainLudger Deitmer, ITB, University of Bremen, Germany
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The challenge & the research
• Problem addressed:– Massive unemployment in EU-27
– lack of skilled talents for young SMEs- the real job creators of Europe
– Can we develop the right skills faster?
• Our research:– Mapped basis for services and business
models in clusters and regions in relevant literature.
– Studied skill services and business models in groups of clusters in three regions.
– Next phase:
• detailed mapping of services, revenues and business models for skill services in clusters
• Layers: an FP 7-Integrated R&I project– nov 2012 until nov 2016/13 mill Euro budget.
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Clusters are core in addressing European skills challenges.
• Growth SMEs increasingly organize in clusters
• 67% of EU-27 business employment in SMEs
• Young SMEs are the job creators of Europe– 85% of net new jobs in EU 2002-2010 were in
SMEs
– New SMEs, younger than 5 years, responsible for majority of new jobs.
– Most new jobs require advanced skill sets.
• Cluster organizations service breath and intensity directly influence SME impact.
• Skill shortage is #1 growth barrier for many clusters.
Source: EU SME Performance Review Oct/2012
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Theoretical framework
• Innovation gap model (Linqvist & Sölvell)– Cluster organizations as service providers
– Funding logics of cluster organizations
• Disruptive innovation model (Christensen)– cluster organizations as disruptors in learning
services?
• Learning region model (Nyhan et al)– How do regions develop ability to learn faster
in times of increased specialization?
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Research questions
• Barriers for the «cluster as a service provider» model?
• How important are skill service revenues for cluster organisations?
• Can cluster organizations be disruptors in skill services?
• Barriers for use of ICT in skills services in clusters?
• What are the necessary expansions of current models of cluster organizations and their funding logics?
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Most important findings
• Skills services has big potential as major funding source for cluster organizations
• Mature cluster organizations drive renewal of skill development in their region
• New services integrate informal @work and formal learning and initial and continued education
• Lack of «cluster commons» a BIG barrier to improved skills development in regions.
• Rigid business models are major barrier for more use of ICT in skill services
• Service development and funding logics for cluster organizations need detailing.
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Cluster org funding logics model basis for researching business models
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Recommendations and Implications
• Promote regional cluster to cluster collaboration in skill services and regional sharing of service platform elements.
• Broaden target groups of cluster program skill services beyond cluster management teams to create shared «cluster commons» in regions.
• Standardize measurement and track % self funding for all cluster organizations.
• Promote use of ICT in skill services and increased focus on informal @work learning
• Promote joint skill service development and shared regional platforms
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Contact info
• Tor-Arne Bellika, – CEO Innovation Performance AS.
• Learning Layers: www.learning-layers.eu
LinkedIn: no.linkedin.com/in/torarnebellika/Mobile: +47 90538842email: [email protected]