The document discusses a collaboration project between clusters in Norway called "Global Innovation Winners" that aims to increase competitiveness and create global innovation leaders. It outlines the background and goals of the project, which include helping clusters innovate at a greater pace, encourage spin-offs, increase collaboration, and form relationships with globally leading institutions. The project also identifies 12 vital factors for success as global innovation winners and defines sub-projects focused on areas like system engineering, big data analysis, and disruptive innovation.

1. Global Innovation Winners -
Collaboration project for NCE clusters in Norway
Espen Warland
Parallel 2.1 Clusters as a tool to create global innovation winners and
increase competitiveness
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2. Global Innovation Winners -
Collaboration project for NCE clusters in
Norway
Espen Warland, Innovation Norway
eswar@innovasjonnorge.no
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3. Increased competitiveness in
regional clusters through
long-term internal and external
collaboration between companies, R&D-and
educational institutions
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5. 14 Centres of Expertise
World leading clusters
Drilling&
Engineering Maritime
System Engineering
Aquaculture Cancer Treatment
Maritime clean
technology
Light Weight
Materials Instrumentation
Energy Trading Fjord Tourism
Subsea
Culinology
Micro- and Nano
technology
Media

6. HOW TO INNOVATE WITH HIGHER IMPACT?
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Project; Global Innovation Winners

7. WHAT IS MEANT BY «GLOBAL INNOVATION WINNERS»?
Global… Globally organized value chain
Innovation… New technology, new combinations of known technology,
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new application areas for known technologies, new
production process, a new business model
Winners… Among the front runners, but not necessarily the first one

8. BACKGROUND FOR THE PROJECT
Global competition increases in most
industries
High costs must be compensated with
higher expertise, efficiency and speed
of innovation!
Global technological and market
development
Development and ambitions of the
clusters
The Norwegian cluster companies must
win the global “R&D&I competition”
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• Global “locomotives” are the
engines of regional development
• 99 per cent of the Norwegian
business community consists of
small and medium-sized
companies (SMEs)
• SMEs represent half of the
productive work in Norway
• 80 per cent of SMEs does not
achieve growth
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9. BACKGROUND FOR THE PROJECT
Global competition increases in most
industries
High costs must be compensated with
higher expertise, efficiency and speed
of innovation!
Global technological and market
development
Development and ambitions of the
clusters
The Norwegian cluster companies must
win the global “R&D&I competition”
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• Global “locomotives” are the
engines of regional development
• 99 per cent of the Norwegian
business community consists of
small and medium-sized
companies (SMEs)
• SMEs represent half of the
productive work in Norway
• 80 per cent of SMEs does not
achieve growth
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10. PROJECT SET UP
Long term activity
Working group
Involve all clusters
Expect actions in the clusters
Learn from world leading competence
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11. GOALS TO ACCOMPLISH (CLUSTER LEVEL):
• Innovate at a greater pace
• Spin outs from existing companies
• Complimentary innovations
• Increased creativity and boldness
• Relations and cooperations with world leading
institutions
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13. A NORWEGIAN-BASED GLOBAL INNOVATION WINNER, WE BELIEVE…
... comprehends and is ahead of the global framework
... comprehends and is ahead of the mega trends
... maximizes and capitalizes on «Norwegian advantages»
The partners could cooperate in the clusters to
achieve these points
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14. MEGA TRENDS
Increased speed of innovation
Global enterprises will seek the most attractive hosts
More solid clusters
Disruptive technologies with high financial potential
 Increasing challenges to host GIW-companies
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15. STEPS OF ACTIVITIES
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16. 12 VITAL FACTORS OF SUCCESS FOR GLOBAL INNOVATION WINNERS
- ON WHICH THE CLUSTER MAY TAKE ACTION
Ability to both visualise and innovate ideas and
concepts quickly
Ability to profit from the incremental innovations, as
well as suceed in the disruptive
«Born global» - Think globally from the very start!
Access to a well-functioning and adequately
dimensioned innovation platform
Encourage serial entrepreneurship and spin outs
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17. 12 VITAL FACTORS OF SUCCESS FOR GLOBAL INNOVATION WINNERS
- ON WHICH THE CLUSTER MAY TAKE ACTION
Follow best practice
Resources and willingness to take risks
Collaborate with your business partners og the
funding partners in a dynamic setting (particularly
essential to small enterprises)
Explore advantages of national, regional and
clusterlike characters
Accommodate demanding customers
Integrate in global centres of expertise
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18. «NORWEGIAN ADVANTAGES»
Management and employees are on close terms (flat structures)
Highly skilled work force
Co-workers willing to take on responsibility
Advanced expertise of system understanding
Several world leading enterprises located in clusters
Large share of SMBs in the working community
Tradition for collaboration, both internally and between business partners
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20. SUB-PROJECT GOALS
I: Vital factors of success for global innovation winners
II: System engineering crossover expertise
III: «Big data»; crossover real time analysis and visualization
IV: Clusters promoting disruptive innovation in enterprises
V: Close gaps in the value chain
VI: Establish cooperation global leading centers of excellence
What do these mean for your cluster?
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My Cluster?

22. THE VISIT – IN SHORT
Visit to Silicon Valley September 7th –
12th, 2014
Focus; Global Innovation Winners and
Disruptive Innovation
Industry area focus:
• Big data, Analytics,
Visualization, AI and Intelligent
use of Big Data,
• Manufacturing, Robotics,
Home Sourcing
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Goals to accomplish (Cluster
level):
• Innovate at a greater pace
• Spin outs from existing
companies
• Complimentary innovations
• Increased creativity and
boldness
• Relations and cooperations
with world leading
institutions

23. Mon 8. Sept Tues 9. Sept Wed 10.Sept Thur 11.Sept Fri 12.Sept
Workshop SRI
5DOI (Disciplines
of Innovation)
 How to be in
front of
disruptive
changes?
 How to drive
innovation
speed?
 How to
succeed with
cross over
innovations?
 Tech Talk on
Big Data,
Robotics,
Visualization
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Workshop
d.School Stanford
Univ.
• Creativity and
innovation
• Design Thinking
Company visit:
UX design and the
internet of Things
Reception: The
Norwegian
General consulate
Workshop:
Startups from
existing
companies,
Tristan Kromer
Why does Silicon
Valley work?
Julie Hanna
Born Global,
Bill Reichert
Panel Disc:
Nordic companies i
US; Why some
succeed and why
some fail
Mixer at Innovation
House
Company Visit:
Google Cloud
(TBC)
Visit: Institute for
the Future,
Allessandro Voto
Company Visit:
Type A Machines;
3D printing
manufacturer
Individual meetings
alternative:
Foresight
Workshop; Tamara
Carleton
Meeting Silicon
Valley Robotics
and iGate

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25. FOLLOW UPS
Listed about X actions
Contact established
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26. FOLLOW UPS
Report on challanges, and possible connetions on
R&D and leading knowlegde
Follow up seminar in Norway
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27. Seminars
Building up competence
Combining Best Practicis
Look for spesific technology outside Norway
Technology scouts, incubator
Identify cross over competence
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28. LEARNING EXPERIENCE FROM THE PROJECT
Great feedback on this activity
Useful to work clusters and cluster programme
togethet
Great knowlegde sharing between clusters
«Scale advantage»
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29. Still a
Global
Innovation
Winner?
GCE Node
Website - English

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