CLUNET WORKING GROUP

Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal1002, Sherbrooke street West, suite 2400

Montreal (Quebec) H3A 3L6, CANADA

Working group objectivesand

program

General objectives– Encourage detailed policy exchanges– Build up trust and relationships between partners– Improve communications and create maximum value

added from the limited time policy makers have for meetings

Specific objective– Bring together CLUNET policy making partners to

discuss cluster development policies including the sub-themes (SME internationalisation, incubation)

Themes to be covered– Cluster governance and partnership– Cluster finance– Incubation via clusters– SME development via clusters– Cluster evaluation and monitoring– Cluster growth and global competitiveness strategy

Working Group Objectives

CLUNET WORKING GROUP

Europe meets America20-21 September 2007

8h00 Meeting place : Hotel Lobby

8h30 Breakfast - Arrival & Registration

9h00 Welcome• Massimo Iezzoni, Director

General, MMC

9h15 CLUNET Objectives and Update on EU cluster policy

• Lynne Taylor, NWDA• Fabien Martel, NWDA

10h00Montreal and other North American Regions – Benchmarking Cluster Policies

• Yves Charette, MMC

10h30Comfort Break

10h45Canadian and US Experience – Policy Lessons

– Policies for Cluster Creation : Lessons from the ISRN Research Initiative

• David Wolfe, Professor, University of Toronto5 25 minutes

– 2 US/Canadian Regions – 25 minutes each

• Michael Darch, Executive Director, Global Marketing, OCRI (Ottawa)

• Daniel E. Bosley, Chairman, MA State Legisl. Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies

12h00General Findings of CLUNET Work Package 2 – 30 minutes

• Laura Righi, Direzione Generaledello Sviluppo Economico, Etruria Innovazione (Toscana)

• Marc Pattinson, Director inno-TSD

12h30Lunch and Networking

14h30Montreal’s Competitive Clusters – 20 minutes each

• Carl Viel, General Manager, Montreal In Vivo

• Lyne bouchard, President and Chief Executive Officer, TechnoMontreal

• Suzanne Benoit, Chief Executive Officer, Aero Montreal

15h30Discussion• Moderator, Maxime

Trottier, MMC

16h30Adjournment and Return to Hotel

17h50Departure from Hotel - Reception for CLUNET Partners and Guest Speakers “Discovering Montreal from the Saint-Lawrence River”

+ Press release / Photos

CLUNET WORKING GROUP

Europe meets America20-21 September 2007

Thursday, 20th September 2007Montreal Working Group

Program

8h00 Meeting place : Hotel Lobby

8h30 Breakfast - Arrival & Registration

9h00 Welcome + feedback from Day 1 LT + YC

9h30 Discussion about the final deliverables of WP 2 :

Regional profiles/ Clunet policy Guidelines

How to use and spread those documents

10h30 Break

10h45 WP 3 : Pilot project set-up

Feed back from Tuscany brainstorming (MT + Filas)

Presentation of opportunities from participants (All partners)

Methodology for the future Pilot projects (MT +All partners)

Friday, 21st September 2007CLUNET Regular Meeting

Program

CLUNET WORKING GROUP

Europe meets America20-21 September 2007

12h15Lunch and networking

14h00MoU and Cluster alliance

Discussion about Memorandum of understanding (MP)

Networking and cooperation with other Inno-NETS (FM+LT)

15h30Preparation of the Stockholm meeting in January 08

Next activities and action plan

Regional and national Communication

17h00Adjournment and Return to Hotel

Clunet participants and

guest speakers

Clunet participants

Lynne Taylor NWDA

Fabien Martel NWDA

Marc Pattinson Inno-TSD

Vanja Rangus Department for Economic Development and

Tourism - Ljubljana

Natasa Mrsol Department for Economic Development and

Tourism - Ljubljana

Dajana Pefestorff ZAB ZukunftsAgentur Brandenburg GmbH

Miguel Angel Garcia Instituto Technologico de Aragon

Françoise Restif Bretagne Innovation

Ian Brannigan One NorthEast

Philippe Perez Mediterranee Techonologies

Gabriella Fiori Mediterranee Techonologies

Laura Santarelli Finanziaria Laziale di Sviluppo

Laura Righi Etrutia Innovazione -Toscana

Astrid Harder-NowkaMinistry of Economic and Labour Affairs - Hamburg

Walter Birkhan Ministry of Economic and Labour Affairs - Hamburg

Robert Kopasz South Great Plain Regional Development Agency

Annukka Havas Lahti Science and Business Park - Finland

Eduardo Diaz Fundacion para el Conocimiento madri+d

Yves Charette Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal

David A. Wolfe University of Toronto

Daniel E. Bolsey Massachusetts Sate Legislature

Michael B. Darch OCRI - Ottawa

Suzanne Benoît Aéro Montréal

Carl Viel Montréal InVvo

Lyne Bouchard TechnoMontréal

Clunet guest speaker

Guest speakerbiographies

David A. Wolfe is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto at Mississauga and Co-Director of the Program on Globalization and Regional Innovation Systems (PROGRIS) at the Munk Centre for International Studies. His research interests include the political economy of technological change and the role of local and regional economic development, with special reference to Canada and Ontario. PROGRIS serves as the national secretariat for the Innovation Systems Research Network (ISRN), funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He is National Coordinator of the ISRN and from 2001 to 2005 he was the Principal Investigator on its Major Collaborative Research Initiative grant on Innovation Systems and Economic Development: the Role of Local and Regional Clusters in Canada, a comparative study of twenty-six industrial clusters across Canada. Along with Meric Gertler, he has recently been awarded a new MCRI grant from SSHRC on the Social Dynamics of Economic Performance: Innovation and Creativity in City Regions which runs from 2006 to 2010.

He holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Political Science from Carleton University and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. From October, 1990 to August, 1993 he served as Executive Coordinator for Economic and Labour Policy in the Cabinet Office of the Government of Ontario. Upon his return to the University of Toronto from 1993 until 1997, he was a research associate in the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research’s Program on Law and the Determinants of Social Ordering. He is editor or co-editor of seven books and numerous scholarly articles and public policy reports. In 2003, he co-authored a report on Community Participation and Multilevel Governance in Economic Development Policy for the Government of Ontario's Panel on the Role of Government. Most recently, he prepared a report for the Ontario Research and Innovation Council on Knowledge and Innovation.

His recent publications have appeared in The Nation State in a Global Information Era, ed. Thomas Courchene, Innovation and Social Learning: Institutional Adaptation in an Era of Technological Change co-edited with Meric S. Gertler, Taking Public Universities Seriously, co-edited by Frank Iacobucci and Carolyn Tuohy, Global Networks and Local Linkages, co-edited with Matthew Lucas, Clusters and Regional Development: Critical reflections and explorations, edited by Bjorn Asheim, Phil Cooke and Ron Martin, and Cluster Genesis: The Emergence of Technology Clusters, edited by Maryann Feldman and Pontus Braunerheim. Recent articles have also appeared in European Planning Studies, Regional and Federal Studies, Review of International Political Economy, Futures, Urban Studies and Science and Public Policy. More information is available at the PROGRIS website: http://www.utoronto.ca/progris.

David A. Wolfe’s Biography

Michael Darch is the Executive Director of OCRI's Ottawa Global Marketing. The Global Marketing group is responsible for the attraction of investment, companies and people to the Ottawa region, the branding and marketing of the City of Ottawa, the management of Ottawa's global partnerships and the support of Ottawa's technology clusters.

Michael is a strong advocate of focused, cluster-based economic development. He has been the driving force behind the economic partnerships formed between Ottawa and five U.S. cities and is now building European partnerships. He has rebuilt the marketing of Ottawa around its successful technology clusters, skilled workforce, research strength, ability to attract capital and business support infrastructure.

Michael has over 30 years experience in the private sector. He was President of Viva Interactive Learning Inc, a company producing computer-based Health and Safety educational products. Michael was also the President of REDO, an organization to assist the economy of Ottawa to adjust to the federal government downsizing announced in 1995. Prior to that appointment, he was the founder and President of Lansdowne Technologies Inc. for 20 years. Lansdowne provided management services to large technology-intensive projects, primarily in the aerospace and defence sectors.

Michael served as an engineering officer for 11 years in the Canadian Air Force. Currently a Director of the Ottawa MacDonald-Cartier International Airport Authority, Michael also served as a Chairman of the Ottawa Economic Development Corporation. He has also served as a Director on the Boards of several technology companies, both public and private.

Michael holds Masters degrees in Business from the University of Ottawa and Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and is a graduate of the Royal Military College of Canada. He is a Professional Engineer, registered in the Province of Ontario.

Michael B. Darch’s Biography

Representative Daniel E. Bosley, of North Adams, serves as the HouseChairman of the Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies in the Massachusetts Legislature. This Committee considers all matters pertaining to economic development within the Commonwealth, including issues related to commercial establishments, industrial development, casino gambling, gaming and the racing industry. Representative Bosley worked extensively on the Economic Stimulus packages that included STEM an initiative to encourage students to pursue the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics as well as encourage technology applications in classrooms and the use of technology in workforce training and development.

He created legislation to restructure the electric industry, a project that has been credited as the largest economic development program in Massachusetts and the first of its kind in the nation. The Restructuring Law has resulted in almost $3 billion in savings to ratepayers and has increased generation capacity to record levels. It has also led to the largest investment in renewable energy and efficiency programs in the country.

Representative Bosley has served as Chairman of the Council of State Governments Eastern Regional Conference (CSG/ERC) Export Promotion Task Force and as Chair of the Electric Deregulation Task Force. In 1996, he was instrumental in establishing the Eastern Trade Council, an 11 member jurisdiction, a regional trade institute to promote regional cooperation to increase experts in the Northeast. In 2004, he served as the CSG National Chairman.

First elected as State Representative in 1986, Representative Bosley is currently serving his eleventh term. Bosley graduated cum laude from North Adams State College in 1976 with a BA in History and Political Science. In 1996, he received his MA in Public Policy from UMass Boston. In 2001, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts awarded Bosley with an honorary Doctor of Laws. He lives in North Adams with his wife, Laura, and his daughter, Stephanie.

Daniel E. Bosley’s Biography

Lyne Bouchard joined Montréal International in April 2006 to manage the Information and Communications Technology Cluster of Greater Montréal – TechnoMontréal’s activities. In partnership with companies and representatives from the academic, scientific and governmental sectors, Ms. Bouchard sees to the industry’s promotion and ensures that the right conditions are put in place to allow our companies to compete internationally. Previously, Ms. Bouchard was Director for Eastern Canada of Gartner’s Executive Programs where she worked as a senior consultant and coach with CIOs. Ms. Bouchard holds a doctorate from UCLA.

Lyne Bouchard s’est jointe à Montréal International en avril 2006 pour diriger les activités de la Grappe des technologies de l’information et des communications du Grand Montréal – TechnoMontréal. De concert avec les entreprises et les représentants des milieux académiques, scientifiques et gouvernementaux, Mme Bouchard voit à la promotion de l’industrie et à la mise en place des conditions qui permettront aux entreprises de mieux concurrencer à l’échelle internationale. Auparavant, Mme Bouchard a été responsable des programmes pour exécutifs chez Gartner où elle a travaillé avec les CIOs de l’est du Canada en tant que conseiller senior et coach. Mme Bouchard détient un doctorat de UCLA.

Lyne Bouchard’s Biography