Star Clusters in Germany

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1 Star Clusters in Germany Center for Strategy and Competitiveness, CSC Stockholm School of Economics April 2011 This report presents the strongest regional clusters in Germany according to the European Cluster Observatory star rating. In total, there are 314 clusters in Germany that have received at least one star. (Data source for Germany: Statistik der Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Germany, 4-digit NACE Rev. 2.0, 2009) Methodology The amount and quality of knowledge circulating and spilling over between firms, located in a cluster, is dependent upon the cluster's size, the degree to which it is specialised and the extent to which the locality (the region) is focused upon production in the relevant industries comprising the cluster. The European Cluster Observatory shows the extent to which clusters have achieved this specialised critical mass by employing measures of these three factors as described below, and assigning each cluster 0, 1, 2 or 3 Stars depending on how many of the below criteria are met. - Size Star: if employment reaches a sufficient share of total European employment, it is more likely that meaningful economic effects of clusters will be present. The size measure shows whether a cluster is in the top 10% of all clusters in Europe within the same cluster category in terms of the number of employees. - Specialisation Star: if a region is more specialised in a specific cluster category than the overall economy across all regions, this is likely to be an indication that the economic effects of the regional cluster have been strong enough to attract related economic activity from other regions to this location, and that spill-overs and linkages will be stronger. The specialisation measure compares the proportion of employment in a cluster category in a region over the total employment in the same region, to the proportion of total European employment in that cluster category over total European employment. The measure needs to be at least 2 to receive a star. - Focus Star: if a cluster accounts for a larger share of a region's overall employment, it is more likely that spillover effects and linkages will actually occur instead of being drowned in the economic interaction of other parts of the regional economy. The focus measure shows the extent to which the regional economy is focused upon the industries comprising the cluster category and relates employment in the cluster to total employment in the region. The top 10% of clusters which account for the largest proportion of their region's total employment receive a star. For more information please contact: Sergiy Protsiv (info@clusterobservatory.eu)

2 STAR CLUSTERS IN GERMANY Stuttgart Automotive Metal manufacturing Production technology Financial services Heavy Machinery Instruments Plastics Power generation and transmission Biotech Business services IT Lighting and electrical equipment Media and publishing Medical devices Paper products Processed food Sporting, recreational and children s goods Karlsruhe Automotive IT Production technology Biotech Instruments Jewellery and precious metals Medical devices Metal manufacturing Power generation and transmission Business services Financial services Freiburg Metal manufacturing Production technology Instruments Lighting and electrical equipment Medical devices Pharmaceuticals Plastics Power generation and transmission Construction Financial services Tübingen Production technology Aerospace Instruments Medical devices Metal manufacturing Pharmaceuticals

3 Business services Financial services Power generation and transmission Textiles Oberbayern Automotive IT Aerospace Biotech Business services Chemical products Financial services Instruments Education and knowledge creation Entertainment Lighting and electrical equipment Media and publishing Medical devices Pharmaceuticals Plastics Processed food Production technology Telecom Tourism and hospitality Niederbayern Automotive Production technology Construction Financial services Instruments Medical devices Power generation and transmission Processed food Oberpfalz Production technology Telecom Business services Construction Financial services IT Metal manufacturing Plastics Processed food Oberfranken Plastics Sporting, recreational and children s goods Construction materials Financial services Furniture Medical devices 3 507

4 Metal manufacturing Power generation and transmission Processed food Production technology Textiles Mittelfranken IT Production technology Instruments Plastics Sporting, recreational and children s goods Business services Financial services Metal manufacturing Unterfranken Automotive Production technology Instruments Power generation and transmission Financial services Medical devices Schwaben Berlin Production technology Aerospace Heavy Machinery Business services Construction Financial services Instruments Metal manufacturing Paper products Plastics Processed food Education and knowledge creation Biotech Business services Entertainment Financial services Instruments Medical devices Transportation and logistics Brandenburg Business services Construction Financial services Medical devices Transportation and logistics

5 Bremen Instruments Transportation and logistics Business services Financial services Maritime Hamburg Distribution Aerospace Business services Financial services Oil and gas Transportation and logistics Darmstadt Financial services Biotech Business services Chemical products Instruments Transportation and logistics Aerospace Education and knowledge creation IT Media and publishing Medical devices Pharmaceuticals Plastics Production technology Gießen Kassel Education and knowledge creation Metal manufacturing Financial services Instruments Lighting and electrical equipment Production technology Automotive Medical devices Business services Financial services Heavy Machinery Instruments Plastics Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Tourism and hospitality Business services Construction Financial services

6 Transportation and logistics Niedersachsen Automotive Business services Financial services Processed food Aerospace Agricultural products Biotech Building fixtures, equipment and services Chemical products Distribution Education and knowledge creation Heavy Machinery Instruments Media and publishing Medical devices Metal manufacturing Oil and gas Paper products Plastics Power generation and transmission Production technology Stone quarries Telecom Tourism and hospitality Transportation and logistics Düsseldorf Köln Metal manufacturing Business services Chemical products Financial services Jewellery and precious metals Distribution IT Instruments Medical devices Pharmaceuticals Plastics Power generation and transmission Production technology Telecom Business services Chemical products Education and knowledge creation Financial services Oil and gas Plastics Automotive Biotech 1 266

7 Entertainment IT Instruments Lighting and electrical equipment Medical devices Paper products Production technology Telecom Münster Production technology Chemical products Plastics Business services Construction Financial services Processed food Detmold Building fixtures, equipment and services Metal manufacturing Production technology Furniture Lighting and electrical equipment Plastics Business services Financial services IT Instruments Medical devices Processed food Arnsberg Metal manufacturing Production technology Heavy Machinery Lighting and electrical equipment Plastics Business services Financial services Instruments Stone quarries Rheinland-Pfalz Automotive Metal manufacturing Pharmaceuticals Plastics Stone quarries Business services Chemical products Construction Construction materials Financial services

8 Heavy Machinery Jewellery and precious metals Medical devices Paper products Processed food Production technology Saarland Automotive Metal manufacturing Business services Financial services Medical devices Production technology Chemnitz Metal manufacturing Production technology Business services Construction Power generation and transmission Processed food Dresden Leipzig Business services Construction Education and knowledge creation Financial services IT Power generation and transmission Business services Construction Financial services Transportation and logistics Sachsen-Anhalt Business services Construction Financial services Power generation and transmission Schleswig-Holstein Instruments Medical devices Business services Financial services Pharmaceuticals Processed food Transportation and logistics

9 Thüringen Medical devices Business services Construction Financial services Metal manufacturing Processed food

10 About the European Cluster Observatory The European Cluster Observatory, launched in June 2007, is the most comprehensive database on clusters, cluster organisations, and cluster reports in Europe. It is managed by the Center for Strategy and Competitiveness (CSC) at the Stockholm School of Economics and funded by the European Commission's Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry. The European Cluster Observatory website provides a wide variety of data on clusters in Europe, and is focused on the following issues: Cluster Mapping providing information more than 40 cluster categories in over 250 NUTS-2 regions Regional competitiveness data, describing cluster framework conditions in regions Information, maps and lists of cluster organisations, science parks and other types of organisations Providing a Library as an open European depository for various cluster-related documents Providing reports on cluster policies and special sectors Please visit the European Cluster Observatory at