Aspects of competitiveness

SWEDISH AGENCY FOR ECONOMICAND REGIONAL GROWTH

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Aspects of competitiveness

Karin HallerbyHead of departementInternational affairswww.tillvaxtverket.sePhone +46 8 681 91 00


• 11 offices in nineplaces around Sweden

• Sixty programmes/service schemes

• SEK 2.5 billion ( app.: 250 000

million euro per year

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Swedish Agency for Economicand Regional Growth today


Option

Placebased or placeless?


Placeless

• Regulations

• Entrepreneurship

• Innovation

• Sustainable development and business growth

• Internationalisation


Better regulation

• Identify rules that create difficulties for enterprises

• Database where government agencies can see what the effect will be in monetary terms if they change a regulation

• Support government agencies through methods development, advice and training

• SWEGovernment target: a 25 per cent reduction in the administrative costs for enterprises by 2010

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Facilitating entrepreneurship

• Information services

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Points of single contact : Service sector : EU-member states

• obtain all the information about the procedures you need to complete for your specific services activity

• deal with all formalities needed to carry out your activities (without the need to approach various public bodies one by one)

• complete the necessary steps by electronic means.


Verksamt.se

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Complaints

• SOLVIT centres in every EU Member State

• SOLVIT is an on-line problem solving network.

• Solve problems caused by the misapplication of Internal Market law by public authorities.

• Handling complaints from both citizens and businesses.

• Providing real solutions - within ten weeks

• Free of charge.


Facilitating innovation

• Triple – Helix : University-Industry-Society

• Clusters

• Incubators


Financial support 2009

- The Packaging Arena

- Future Position X (GIS)

-Georange-(minerals/mining)

- Heavy Vehicles

- Sustainable Sweden South East

- Stockholm Cleantech Business Network

- Uppsala energy

- EcoRub

- Green design/furniture

- Marine technology

- Moving images

GrowingEarlyDevelopment checkEnvironment

- Space port

- Gothia Innovation Games


One common

focus!SocietyCompetence,

academia

Business

The regional clusterprogram

Källa: Tage Dolk


Facilitating sustainable growth

• Programmes adressing needs/market failures

• Financing

• Internationalisation


Sustainable growth

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EXAMPLES from Sweden:

• Integration: Entrepreneurs with foreign backgrounds

• Environment : Entreprenuers with product/services

• Gender : Women entrepreneurs


Other examples

• Tourism- Creative industries

• Health care sector

• Commercial and public services in rural areas

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Facilitating internationalisation

• Trade – services for export/import

• Inward investment- services for regions/industry

• Transnational Cooperations


Direct services to industry

• Invest in xxx agencies: placebased marketing

• Export/import services for trade:

–consulting services.

–Additional serviceses free of charge

– Industry marketing packages Enterprise can relate to

• Financing services

–Quarantee instruments; loans: entering emerging markets


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DemoEnvironmentDemoEnvironment

A unique opportunity for a cleaner environmentA unique opportunity for a cleaner environment

CIS: Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, MoldaviaCIS: Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Moldavia


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Noise & Noise & Urban TransportUrban Transport

Sectors eligible for supportSectors eligible for support

Air Air environmentenvironment

Water & Water & SanitationSanitation

Waste ManagementWaste Management

Energy savingEnergy savingRenewable Renewable energyenergy

Soil PollutionSoil Pollution


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Pilot studyPilot study

Two types of supportTwo types of support

Demonstration projectDemonstration project


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””Biogas Production for Sustainable Biogas Production for Sustainable Development in Rural Georgia” example Development in Rural Georgia” example

Ÿ Ÿ Problems to be solved:Problems to be solved: lack of lack of energy,deforestration, pollutionenergy,deforestration, pollution

Ÿ Ÿ Aim of the project:Aim of the project: To upgrade Georgian To upgrade Georgian Biogas DigestersBiogas Digesters

Ÿ Ÿ Buyer:Buyer: Bio Energy NGO and Green Movement Bio Energy NGO and Green Movement in Georgiain Georgia

Ÿ Ÿ Supplier:Supplier: SWECO AB, Sweden, experts in SWECO AB, Sweden, experts in waste and energy systemswaste and energy systems


• EU

• 600 offices in 50 countries

• 15 offices in Sweden, 20 cities;50 experts

• Thematic groups• Aerospace Marine ; Automotive

• Materials;Agrofood;Textiles

• Medical technology; Biotechnology

• Nano & microtechnology

• Renewable energy/Environment

• Sercurity and defence

• ICT

Enterprise Europe Network

www.enterpriseeurope.se


Enterprise Europé Network

• Develop your business in new markets

• Source or license new technologies

• Access EU finance and EU funding



16 Projects with Belarus partnersEx.: services to SME:s

• BSR QUICK: Qualification, Innovation, Cooperation and Keybusiness for Small and Medium Enterprises in the Baltic Sea Region

• IBI Net :Intercountry Business Incubators’ Network

• Egoprise, E-GOvernment solutions as instruments to qualify the public sector for the specific needs of small and medium sized enterPRISEs (SMEs) in the rural BSR

• AGORA : Heritage Tourism for increased BSR Identity

• ImPrim Improvement of public health by promotion of equitably distributed high quality primary health care systems


Transports

• Baltic.AirCargo.Net : Improvement of the air cargo transport sector by service oriented ICT-methods and processing logistic network

• EWTC II: East West Transport Corriodor II - a green corridor concept within the Northern Transport Axis approach


Energy, climate

• Baltrad : aims at developing an innovative ICT system for collecting, exchanging, and processing weather radar data designed to improve weather forecasting activities dependent on such information

• Pure :Project on Urban Reduction of Eutrophication

• Bioenergy promotion:sustainable use of bio-energy.

• Urban energy :Energy Efficient and Integrated Urban Development Action

• BERAS : Baltic Ecological Recycling Agriculture and Society Implementation


Belarussian ideas to be developed in BSSSC conference on 13 October 2010 in Tallinn

• Cross-border region development

• Sewage treatment of rural eco-tourist

• National aquaculture centers

• Energy bus (efficient energy technologies)

• Logistics development for transport communications


Summary :Placebased and Placeless policies

• Regulations/simplification are key!

• Information services!

• Direct services national/abroad to Invest or Trade

• Partnerships in productdevelopment/market introduction

• Cooperations, a path to investments!

• Transnational project participation will expand networks , leading to……

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Aspects of competitiveness