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The Australian Cluster Observatory Allan O’Connor 17 April 2015
The Australian Cluster Observatory
Dr Allan O’Connor Entrepreneurship, Commercialisation and Innovation Centre
Acknowledgements
• SA Department of State Development for funding and support
• Funding awarded June, 2014
• Project commenced August, 2014
• State’s Economic Priority 6 – Growth through Innovation
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The Entrepreneurship Commercialisation and Innovation
Centre
What does the ECIC do?
Education, Engagement and Research
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• Education – Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• Undergraduate and Postgraduate
– Project Management
• Postgraduate
• Engagement
– ThInc Lab
• Student business incubator, Commercialisation Accelerator Program
– eChallenge
• New venture team entrepreneurial challenge
Research - Solving the puzzle: Current Projects
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• Understanding dynamic social and economic systems
– Entrepreneurship, complex projects, technology emergence and transfer
• Applied innovation within systems
– Cluster development and evolution, policy inputs and outcomes, sustainability and resilience, entrepreneurial capabilities
• Regional Development and Innovation Fund
– eChallenge into the Riverland
– Managed by PIRSA – federal funds
• Australian Cluster Observatory
• Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Project
– Interviews and Focus Groups
– Will culminate in Major Findings in March/April 2015.
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Research - Solving the puzzle: Current Projects
Agglomeration, clusters and observatories
Development of the Australian Cluster Observatory
ECIC Team
Dr Graciela Corral de Zubielqui
Manjula Dissanayake
Dr Huanmei Li
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Australian Workplace Innovation and Social Research Centre (WISeR) Collaboration
Dr Parvin Mahmoudi
Bianca Barbaro
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Background
• Professor Örjan Sölvell October, 2013 Visit
– Stockholm School of Economics
• Entrepreneurial Place, Space and People (3 Workshops)
– Collaborate and Cluster
– Communicate and Connect
– Capture and Clarify
• Could an Australian Cluster Observatory help?
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2012
2014
2007
2005
2003
2001
2000
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Cluster Mapping Cluster Observatories
Porter: US Cluster Codes Mapping US
Lindqvist, Malmberg & Sölvell: Translation of US Cluster Codes to EU Mapping Sweden
European Cluster Observatory
US Cluster Mapping website Global Cluster Observatory portal
ICP: Mapping Canada
Ketels, Sölvell & Lindqvist: Mapping of accession EU-10 Introduced 3-star rating
Sölvell, Ketels, Lindqvist & Protsiv: Mapping of EU-27 + 4
Australian Cluster Observatory
2009
UoA: Translation to ANZSIC codes
Lindqvist, Protsiv, Sölvell & Ketels: Revision of EU codes Introduction of Priority Sectors
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A database of regional employment data,
etc.
A website
Reports
Research
Official statistics
Clever processing: clusters
About 500
industries,
49 cluster
categories
About 88 SA4 regions
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What is mapped? Average Wage and Employees
What are we aiming to achieve?
• Overcome specific barriers to collecting local data:
– The SA knowledge base is limited partly by lack of access to discriminate knowledge and partly due to its relative small size
– The cross-tabulation of regional and industry indicators that allow for cluster activity to be detected is not feasible given the rigid geographic boundaries applied to data collection and the absence of fine-grained (4 digit industry code level) data as can be applied to regions.
– Indirect performance measures that involve indicators of cooperation and interaction between firms, research institutions, education, capital providers etc. are absent from the available data base sources.
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The Australian Cluster Observatory
Overview
The project so far…
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• www.clusterobservatory.com.au
Indicator, Region, Sector and Organisation Maps
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Indicator, Region, Sector and Organisation Maps
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Graphing tools
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Sydney: City, Inner South & Inner West (Employees)
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Sydney: City, Inner South and Inner West (Wages)
Sectors List
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Regions List
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Calendar
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Organisations
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What are the next steps?
• Want to be kept informed? ‘Like’ us on Facebook
• Beta release with data populated by early Feb 2015
• Cluster organisations will be identified and contacted
• We will be working with Cluster Organisations in response to key research needs
• Full production release by June 2015
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1. Stockholm ICT and Tech (2015)
2. Nordic Competitiveness (2015)
3. Competitiveness of Life Science Clusters in Europe (2014)
4. European Cluster Panorama – Emerging Sectors (2014)
5. Clusters, Cluster Organizations and Prosperity in Europe (2014)
6. Clusters in the Baltic Sea Region (2013)
Recent projects from ECO
