INTERCLUSTER PROJESİ GRAB-IT KONFERANSI SUNUMU

1. DEVELOPING EUROPEAN
INTER-CLUSTER ALLIANCE
FOR ORGANIC AGRICULTURE

2. CLUSTERS ARE
EVERYWHERE?

3. NETWORK OF
STAKEHOLDERS

4. Geographical Startup Clusters Developing
Concentration Clusters
4
4 3
3
7 5
4
6
3
3
PROGRESS

5. INTER-CLUSTERING
Combining pieces of puzzle together
with stakeholders from other regions
or countries.
GOOD CORRECT VERY GOOD
PARTNERSHIP BUSSINESS PLAN

6. INTER-CLUSTERING
SHARING INFORMATION &KNOW HOW
JOINT RESEARCH PROJECTS
COMMERCIAL ALLIANCE
FULL INTEGRATION

7. Developing European Inter-Cluster Alliance for
Organic Agriculture Project aims at improving
the dialogue between the stakeholders in
organic agriculture sector, increasing the
cooperation within the sector and ensuring
information flow on new markets and
customers. The project partners have adopted
the clustering approach as a basis in order to
actualize this aim.
Within this framework, the organic business
clusters in entire Europe will be gathered under
the same platform.

8. DIALOGUE AND
CORPORATION

9. TEAM AND
INFRASTRUCTURE

11. PROJECT PARTNERS

14. COLLABORATION
PLATFORM

17. Unique system for network management
System Management (Aegean Exporters’ Associations)
Partners from Turkey, Germany, Greece and France
Supporting Organizations (Approve from partners)
Members (Approve from Supporting Organizations)

18. Profiling Stakeholders’ in Value Chain
• Company
• Retailer
• Wholesaler
8 different Stakeholders’ • Service Provider
Profile have been prepared • University
according to stakeholders • Research Institution
specialty. • Farmer / Producer
• Supporting Organization (Cluster Organization, Network
Organization, Association, Producer Organization, Chamber of
Commerce / Industry

21. TECHNOLOGICAL
COOPERATION
AND PARTNERSHIP
OPPORTUNITIES

30. AUTOMATCH
TOOL IS
COMING SOON

32. BEST PRACTICES
FROM ALL
AROUND
EUROPE

35. NEEDS AND
INFORMATION GAPS

37. SURVEY
4 PARTS
• General Information
• Marketing
• Production
• Innovation

38. SAMPLE AND DATA
• 101 participants
• 4 countries
• 24.737 data

39. Percentage of Organic
Activities/ Sales / Products

40. ECONOMIC
EXPECTATIONS

41. MARKETING
OBJECTIVES

42. DISTRIBUTION
CHANNELS
TURKEY FRANCE
GREECE GERMANY

43. HAPPY WITH
MARKETING

44. NEED SUPPORT FOR
MARKETING?
NEED SUPPORT FOR MARKETING? TURKEY FRANCE GERMANY GREECE
Training human resources 31% 22% 43% 20%
Support to find business project partners and enhancing network 64% 61% 43% 90%
Delivering technical support for project development for European
Grant Schemes 75% 22% 36% 50%
Providing market studies and information about market trends 66% 44% 21% 50%
Organizing networking activities 42% 28% 71% 20%
Coaching companies to regroup their forces 31% 28% 43% 10%
Other 2% 17% 29% 20%

45. COMPETITIVE?
COMPETETIVENESS TURKEY FRANCE GERMANY GREECE
Product / Service Quality - Domestic competitors 4,39 4,15 4,25 4,00
Product / Service Quality - International competitors 4,19 3,82 4,50 3,50
Product's Physical Attributes - Domestic competitors 4,27 3,31 3,40 4,00
Product's Physical Attributes- International competitors 4,05 3,33 2,50 4,43
Delivery Time of Product / Service- Domestic competitors 4,22 3,62 3,60 3,67
Delivery Time of Product / Service- International competitors 4,23 3,56 3,83 3,38
Cost (Price)- Domestic competitors 3,78 3,15 3,75 3,33
Cost (Price)- International competitors 3,55 3,00 3,67 3,38
Company’s Location- Domestic competitors 4,02 3,67 3,80 2,89
Company’s Location- International competitors 3,74 3,56 3,80 2,60
Product Design- Domestic competitors 3,80 3,08 3,00 3,67
Product Design- International competitors 3,72 3,22 4,00 3,88
Innovative Product / Service- Domestic competitors 3,80 3,86 4,14 3,56
Innovative Product / Service- International competitors 3,65 3,80 4,00 3,50

46. WHO FEELS COMPETITIVE?

47. NEED SUPPORT FOR
PRODUCTION?
NEED SUPPORT FOR PRODUCTION? Turkey France Germany Greece
Training human resources 12% 5% 14% 16%
Support to find business project partners and enhancing network 22% 23% 22% 32%
Delivering technical support for project development for European Grant
Schemes 25% 21% 11% 16%
Providing necessary infrastructure for R&D (laboratories etc.) 17% 21% 11% 8%
Disseminating information about technological developments in industry 15% 18% 11% 20%
Coaching companies to regroup their forces 9% 13% 17% 8%
Other 1% 0% 14% 0%

48. NEW IDEAS?
TURKEY* FRANCE* GERMANY** GREECE*
Internal (Within Firm) 2,6 2,9 2,5 2,7
Company Acquisitions 2,1 1,4 1,0 1,4
Competitors 2,0 1,7 1,8 2,2
Customers and Buyers 2,5 2,2 2,7 2,4
Suppliers 2,0 1,9 2,2 2,0
Universities/Research Institution 1,7 1,4 1,3 1,8
Other 1,6 1,6 1,7 1,0
* Internal speculation. (Guess what is innovative?)
**Market oriented approach.

49. INNOVATION
GENERATION

50. UNIVERSITIES
Relationship with universities / research institutions. Turkey France Germany Greece
No relation with the universities at all 10% 16% 13% 20%
Benefit from R&D programs of the universities 5% 8% 9% 10%
Benefit from the laboratories at the universities 15% 4% 0% 5%
Benefit from the services provided by academicians 12% 8% 3% 5%
Employ local university graduates 17% 4% 16% 5%
Provide internship opportunities for local university
students 21% 32% 22% 20%
Conduct joint-research programs with the universities 5% 16% 13% 10%
Attend to trainings organized by the universities 15% 8% 9% 20%
Other (please describe) 1% 4% 16% 5%

51. BUSINESS
ENVIRONMENT
Responsiveness of local organizations to your
business needs. TURKEY FRANCE GERMANY GREECE
Office of Governor 1,64 1,67 1,50 1,50
Municipality 1,93 2,42 1,75 2,14
Regional Development Agency (RDA) 2,30 2,77 2,08 1,60
Chambers 2,60 2,42 2,45 2,20
University / Research Institution 2,58 2,36 2,50 2,20
Business Development Service Providers 2,12 2,15 2,25 2,20
Cluster Organization 2,23 2,42 2,67 2,67

52. R&D
COMPETITION?
Do you think that your efforts for Innovation and
R&D make you competitive enough in national /
international market? TURKEY FRANCE GERMANY GREECE
Poor 20% 8% 0% 13%
Not Bad 24% 0% 0% 0%
Modarate 29% 23% 50% 38%
Well 17% 23% 50% 38%
Very well 10% 46% 0% 13%

53. NEED SUPPORT?
What kind of support do you need from your Cluster Organization/Business
Support Organization to enhance your innovation and R&D activities? TURKEY FRANCE GERMANY GREECE
Training human resources 15% 3% 20% 10%
Support to find business project partners and enhancing network 21% 23% 20% 24%
Delivering technical support for project development for European Grant
Schemes 20% 18% 8% 21%
Providing necessary infrastructure for R&D (laboratories etc.) 19% 18% 8% 10%
Disseminating information about technological developments in industry 13% 21% 16% 24%
Supporting companies for strategy development 14% 13% 16% 10%
Other 0% 5% 12% 0%

54. WHAT TO DO?

55. JOIN THE NETWORK!
FOR FUTURE COLLABORATIONS

56. PLEASE JOIN THE
NETWORK FURTHER
DISSEMINATE YOUR
RESEARCH RESULTS
AND INCREASE
INTERACTION

57. THANK YOU

59. EKİN TAŞKIN
PROJECT COORDINATOR
Tel: +90 232 488 60 35
Fax: +90 232 488 61 81
E-Posta: ekin.taskin@eib.org.tr

60. QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS