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1 FP7 BIOCLUS Biomass cluster in Western Macedonia Yannis Fallas, UoWM Ptolemaida,

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3 Cluster = natural economic phenomenon

4 Silicon Valley - Universities (Stanford, Berkeley, ) - Large companies (Hewlett Packard, Sun, Yahoo, Intel, Xerox, Apple, Adobe, 3Com, ) - average wage = 1,5 x rest USA average wage

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6 Natural economic phenomenon artificially created?

7 Sophia Antipolis, Nice / France Pierre Lafitte vision for a new Quartier Latin in the nature (City of Science and Wisdom)

8 Sophia Antipolis

9 Sophia Antipolis today 5 communities enterprises (IBM labs, Texas Instruments, Thomson, Aerospatiale, France Telecom, employees students researchers High specialization: ICT, health sector, business support and services,

10 Examples of agglomeration Michael Porter Clusters Competitive advantage of Nations

11 Enterprises: benefits from Clusters -Direct and easy access to specialized providers, services, financial and human resources -Spill-overs of information and knowledge -Flexibility, direct response and change due to high degree of specialization -Faster adaptation to innovation through imitation

12 The learning procedures within the Clusters define the collective capacity of an area to upgrade the potential of its enterprises to face the macroeconomic changes, by developing new comparative advantages Michel de Bernardy, 1998

13 Regional comparative advantage 1. Not easy to transfer (personal and business relations) 2. Not easy to reproduce (tacit knowledge) Foss, 1996

14 Only black or white? Clusters either spontaneous or artificial?

15 Western Macedonia Biomass Cluster

16 VEVI PPC (plants) AMYNDEO ISFTA PTOLEMAIDA UoWM Wood SME s KOZANI TEI Region GREVENA

17 Wood sector -Well developed SME s -Wood biomass for heat purposes -Potential for district heating -Potential for pellets production

18 VEVI PPC (plants) AMYNDEO ISFTA PTOLEMAIDA UoWM Energy crops KOZANI TEI Region GREVENA

19 Wood + energy crops -Potential huge demand (PPC) -Huge landfields for forest and energy crops cultivation -Increasing interest for biomass cofiring -Existing infrastructure for district heating

20 Interrelated scheme VEVI PPC (plants) AMYNDEO ISFTA Energy crops Wood SME s PTOLEMAIDA KOZANI UoWM TEI Region GREVENA

21 Western Macedonia Biomass Cluster VEVI PPC (plants) AMYNDEO ISFTA PTOLEMAIDA UoWM Energy Wood crops SME s KOZANI TEI Region GREVENA

22 as BioClus indicates Regional key partner Institute for Solid Fuel Technologies and Applications (ISFTA) Basic & Applied Research on Solid Fuels, ERA-NETs (Hy-CO & FENCO) & Knowledge Clusters, European & Global Networking Regional Authority, Public Body Region of Western Macedonia (RWM) Plans and implements the regional level of Structural Funds (Regional Operational Program), including R&D and industrial policy Business Entity, SME ZIOGAS S.A. (ZIOGAS) Wood production, EU Projects, participated in Knowledge Clusters Strategic Innovative Cooperation Actions Programme Regional Innovation Pole (WM RIP) Focusing on Energy Funded by national Innovation Poles programme Participants: energy providers and energy - related research, business and public authorities Strategic Cooperation Regional Wood Cluster Funded by K-Clusters programme Participants Wood Industries and R&D dpts Research Entity University of Western Macedonia (UoWM) Dpt. of Mechanical Engineering Research and Educational activities on Energy production, including biomass resources Strategic Cooperation Technical Educational Institute of Western Macedonia (TEI WM) Dpt. Of Plant production / Florina Branch Strategic cooperation, Public Body Region of Western Macedonia / General Direction of Forests Manages the regional Forests Strategic cooperation Regional SMEs related to biomass resources: Biomass suppliers, such as foresters, farmers, furniture, etc. Strategic cooperation Public Power Corporation (PPC S.A.) Production of Energy Strategic cooperation Association of Western Macedonia Industries Industries operating in the Strategic field of cooperation Biomass Regional Development Agency of Western Macedonia Implementation of Regional development projects

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24 Public Sector Regional Authority, Public Body Region of Western Macedonia (RWM) Plans and implements the regional level of Structural Funds (Regional Operational Program), including R&D and industrial policy General Directions of Forests, Environment, Planning & Development, etc Municipalities of Kozani, Ptolemaida, Grevena, Florina, Amyndeo, etc Strategic cooperation Regional Development Agency of Western Macedonia Implementation of Regional development projects

25 Academia R&D Research Entity University of Western Macedonia (UoWM) Dpt. of Mechanical Engineering Research and Educational activities on Energy production, including biomass resources Regional key partner Institute for Solid Fuel Technologies and Applications (ISFTA) Basic & Applied Research on Solid Fuels, ERA-NETs (Hy-CO & FENCO) & Knowledge Clusters, European & Global Networking Strategic Cooperation Technical Educational Institute of Western Macedonia (TEI WM) Dpt. Of Plant production / Florina Branch

26 Private Sector Strategic cooperation Regional SMEs related to biomass resources: Biomass suppliers, such as foresters, farmers, furniture, etc. Business Entity, SME ZIOGAS S.A. (ZIOGAS) Wood production, EU Projects, participated in Knowledge Clusters Innovative Actions Programme Other SME s: GIOTAS S.A., ALFA WOOD S.A., etc Wood production Strategic cooperation Public Power Corporation (PPC S.A.) Production of Energy Strategic cooperation Association of Western Macedonia Industries Industries operating in the field of Biomass

27 Other Structures Strategic Cooperation Regional Innovation Pole (WM RIP) Focusing on Energy Funded by national Innovation Poles programme Participants: energy providers and energy - related research, business and public authorities Strategic Cooperation Regional Wood Cluster Funded by K-Clusters programme Participants Wood Industries and R&D dpts

28 WM BIOMASS CLUSTER ADVANTAGES +Entrepreneurial tissue +Know - how +Research capacity +Co-financing potential +Public sector support +Establishment potential

29 i.e. AEVAL

30 WM BIOMASS CLUSTER OBSTACLES -Critical mass? -Leadership? / mechanism? -Export oriented? -Financing? -Focus? Co-configuration

31 Overall regional benefits -Reduction of CO2 emissions -Increase of exports (pellets) -Increase of green energy share for internal consumption or export purposes -Better conservation of forests, namely against wild fires -SME s & employment increase, namely in rural areas

32 R&D CENTRES SUPPLIERS GOVERNMENT AGENCIES SUPPLIERS TECHNOLOGY PRODUCERS IPR LAWYERS FUNDING ORGANIZATIONS TRAINING CENTRES INNOVATING COMPANY TECH TRANSFER MONITORING AGENCIES CONSULTANTS CUSTOMERS CUSTOMERS Knowledge and innovation «deposit» e-intelligence e-technologies e-innovation e-markets Ψηφιακοί Χώροι Καινοτομίας Θεσμοί στήριξης καινοτομίας Biomass deposit Καινοτόμα clusters & συνοικίες Komninos / URENIO

33 Thank you! Yannis G. Fallas Coordinator Western Macedonia Regional Innovation Pole Cluster analysis Mob

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