By Juan Carlos Sosa Giraldo, presented at the 17th TCI Global Conference, Monterrey 2014.

1. Innovative Cluster
Juan Carlos Sosa Giraldo
Academic 2: Industrial Trends, Innovation and the Cluster Ecosystems
11 November 2014

2. INNOVATIVE CLUSTER
JUAN CARLOS SOSA GIRALDO

3. AGENDA
1. Why Innovative Cluster?
2. What is Innovative Cluster?
3. How to implement Innovative Cluster?

4. 1. WHY INNOVATIVE CLUSTER
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5. WHY INNOVATIVE CLUSTER
1. Innovation required relationship between different actors or
entities.
2. For innovation and Cluster is relevant localization
3. Innovation, knowledge and cluster strategies are necessary for
the development and sustainability of the regions

6. 2. WHAT IS INNOVATIVE CLUSTER?
DEFINITIONS, CONCEPTS AND THEORIES
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7. THE INNOVATIVE CLUSTER
BORTAGARAY AND TIFFIN (2000)
“Groups of firms, research centers and
investors that work together within a
narrow physical proximity in order to
create new products, technologies and
enterprises. They work into invisible
relationship networks within a
complex social framework where the
collective industrial activity is based on
learning and knowledge”.

8. THE INNOVATIVE CLUSTER
BORTAGARAY AND TIFFIN (2000)
Categories
1. Innovative industrial
clusters
2. Proto innovative clusters
3. Mature innovative clusters

9. THE INNOVATIVE CLUSTER
(BESSANT AND TSEKOURAS, 2001)
“Structure built to increase the level of knowledge and the participants’
innovative capacity and to give the organizations the possibility of
entering into relationships with other organizations and to support the
voluntary learning of their employees.”

10. REGIONAL INNOVATION CLUSTERS
(RICS)
(SALLET, PAISLEY, AND JUSTIN 2009)
• Geographic regions that are bounded by a network of shared
advantages create virtuous circles of innovation that succeed by
emphasizing the key strengths of local business, universities
and other research and development institutions, and non-profit
organization.
• Ejamples: information technology in Silicon Valley, music in
Nashville, manufacturing in the Pacific Northwest, or life
sciences in Massachusetts.

11. INNOVATION NETWORK
LAPERCHE & UZUNIDIS (2011)
Scientific
Pole
Technical
Pole
Market
Pole

12. INNOVATIVE CLUSTER
ENGEL AND PALACIO (2011)
• Mobility of resources: people, technologies, capital and information. Includes:
 Start-ups; small, medium, and large corporations; universities
and research centers; entrepreneurs; investors; service providers
 Individuals and organizations that use entrepreneurial intensive
process as a mechanism for innovation and experimentation;
• Create companies with an international perspective;
Have players who have shared identities and aligned goals

13. OPEN INNOVATION 2.0
(OI2)
Is a new paradigm based on a Quadruple Helix
Model
Principles
1. Co-created shared value,
2. Cultivated innovation ecosystems,
3. Unleashed exponential technologies, and
4. Extraordinarily rapid adoption.

14. OPEN INNOVATION 2.0
(OI2)
5 key elements:
1. Networking,
2. Collaboration,
3. Corporate Entrepreneurship,
4. Proactive Intellectual Property Management;
5. Research and Development (R&D).

15. 3. HOW TO IMPLEMENT INNOVATIVE CLUSTER?
INNOVATIVE CLUSTER
FRAMEWORK
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16. INNOVATIVE CLUSTER
STRATEGIC PLAN AND PROCESS
Plan of Science and
Technology
Plan of Regional
Development
New knowledge Current knowledge
Development
Applied
Research
Basic
Research
Entrepreneurship Innovation

17. INNOVATIVE CLUSTER
STRATEGIC PLAN AND PROCESS
Plan of Science and
Technology
Plan of Regional
Development
New knowledge Current knowledge
ECOSYSTEM
Development
Applied
Research
Basic
Research
Entrepreneurship Innovation
ENTITIES OF
GOVERNMENT
CHAMBERS
OF TRADE
COMPANIES
UNIVERSITIES
CDT
COMPANIES OF
KNOWLEDGMENT
FINANCING

18. TANGIBLE
Knowledge based
firms
The firms are those that store and generate knowledge, they assure an
appropriate framework for the learning process, they induce trust and
cooperation. The anchor firms are defined as “wide sources of technology,
markets and expertise”. Beside them, there is a “swarm” of highly innovative
small firms, spinoffs, startups and big corporations, the last ones being
themselves innovation systems in miniature
Knowledge inputs Universities, research-development laboratories, publications, expertise,
other sources.
Consulting services Firms specialized in technology transfer, legal services (brands, patents),
accounting firms, industrial design firms, industrial engineering firms,
marketing firms, patronal associations.
Specialized inputs Specific or to be adapted materials, instruments, equipment.
Markets Sophisticated customers, the government-consumer.
Cluster support Existence of public and private organizations to manage the network, to
promote it, to assure coordination (a kind of turntable plate of the cluster).
The business incubators are also rated as support organizations
Financing Capital, risk capital and knowledge based banks with highly local character.

19. INTANGIBLE
Culture
Favorable social climate: local cultural values, the
contractors’ value system, the business and socio-cultural
environment, the legal framework.
Integration
Formal and informal links, and interactions within
individuals, and organizations.
Life quality
Quality of life for the persons who work into the
community where the clusters operate, measured
through the cost of houses, leisure facilities,
quality schools, and hospitals, urban services, and
so on.

21. The key question facing policy-makers is how best to create the conditions to
stimulate innovativeness, and consequently, (Schumpeterian)
competitiveness.
There is a need to link innovation, knowledge management, human resource
and cluster policies.

22. THANK YOU
JUAN CARLOS SOSA GIRALDO
juan.sosa@odicolombia.com
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