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Our Mission. Setting the tone in Flanders. Balance between welfare and wellbeing. North-East of Belgium 400.000 inhabitants 1 350 km² -27 cities/villages In 1997: high unemployment Production sector - Relocate. The Board. PARTNERS SPK. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Setting the tone in FlandersBalance between welfare and
wellbeing
Our Mission
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North-East of Belgium
400.000 inhabitants
1 350 km² -27 cities/villages
In 1997: high unemployment
Production sector - Relocate
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The Board
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PARTNERS SPK
Provincial Authoritiesof Antwerp
Christian Trade UnionAssociation of Christian
Employers
Regional Manager Strategisch
Plan Kempen
Christian Associationof the Middle Class
Association ofChristian Employers
Socialist Trade UnionBOARD OF DIRECTORS
Farmers Association of the District
1/3 representatives of employers1/3 representatives of employees1/3 government
Chamber of Commerceand Industry in the
Kempen
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Subcon-tracting
Services
Applying technology
Offer of cultural products
Education
Government services
Infrastructure
1988 2002
Added value
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Method: Strategic Planning• General economic Strategic Plan
• Strategic Plan for Tourism
• Strategic Plan for Unemployment
• Strategic Plan for Agriculture
• Strategic Plan for Telecommunication
• Futur plan Kempen 2015
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• Stimulating the growth of existing companies (directly)
• Stimulating starting enterprises (directly)
• Attracting Belgian and foreign companies (directly)
• Stimulating employment through amelioration of the enterprise
environment (education, research, government) (indirect)
Main topics general strategic plan (1987)
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An SME Business Development
& Networking Programme
PLATO™PLATO™
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Greek philosopher: analysis & synthesis
Acronym:Peterschap (parenthood)Leerplan (training programme)Arrondissement (district)Turnhout (name of district)Ondernemingen (enterprises)
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What: an intensive counseling program for supporting & coaching start-up & growing SME’s.
The principle: large companies accept the parenthood of SME’s and perform coaching and transfer of know-how and experience.
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Observations
• Starting and growing SME’s experience thresholds.
• Entrepreneur/owner is professionally isolated.
• Failure rate is high for starting companies.
• Expertise of large companies is not made
available in SME’s.
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• Large companies accept parenthood of local SME’s to transfer know-how and own experience.
• secondment of senior/potential managers as Group Leaders
• monthly (evening) meetings of each group• Group consisting of 10 to 15 SME owner/entrepreneurs• 2 year cycle• All business subjects are covered• exchange of experience working groups
sounding board individual advicenetworking global meetings
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+1000 SME’s active in Kempen+7000 SME’s active in the Belgian
PLATO™ network and+ 12000 SME’s active mainly
within EU
An international network 12 countries ... 39 regions …
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A future programme to make the Kempen in 2020 into a leading region on sustainable technology
Leading to
• Knowledge centers
• Companies
• Sustainable region
“Kempen Sustainable”
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Some Opportunities• SCK – VITO – KHK – Kamp C – knowledge center horticulture
• Umicore, Suntechnics, Hydrogenics, Philips Lighting, Smet, Leysen, IOK, APT, Horticulture, construction, …
• Spin-off and business development initiatives (VITO-project)
• Environment-incubator in the neighborhood of VITO
• NIRAS-project: stockage nuclear waste + socio-economic leverage
• ELAt: Eindhoven & Leuven in the neighborhood
• Cleantech seed capital
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Vision
Ambition 2020:=> Kempen as international leading region in sustainable energy and
environmental technology:1. Be at the top on specific areas of technology development
2. Strong economic growth dynamics in big and small companies wordwide active in the energy & environmental business
3. International leading example region in the area of energy and enveronmental sustainability
We are motivated by building on our strenghts, and don’t
let to immobilize us by looking on our weaknesses
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Success factors knowledge economy knowledge centers
companies/role models
clusters
networks
seed capital
international companies
infrastructure
education/schoolinfrastructuregovernment
quality of life
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Knowledge region = economic ‘ecosystem’
Knowledge centra
Companies as R&D-partner of knowledge centra
Innovative companies,spin-offs
Knowledge intensivesuppliers, services
Diverse relatedactivities
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10 Key projects“Kempen Sustainable”
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“Kempen Sustainable”1. Create new technology companies (New Business Development
2. Knowledge and business network “Marketplace”
3. Guiding SME’s in innovative enterpreneurship
4. Knowledge center “Kempen Sustainable”
5. Breakthrough and demo-projects
6. Education sector part of the game
7. Strategic planning infrastructure
8. Attract relevant (international) Companies
9. Sustainable Developmentfund Kempen
10. Network Sustainable entrepreneurs Kempen
Co-operation model of different partners
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Questions ?