Moderators

Shadrin Artem,

Director of the Strategic Management (programs) and Budgeting Department of the RF Ministry for Economic Development

Shestopalov Andrey,

General Director of National Institute of Competitiveness

Materials

Programme

17.10.2011
P9
16.45-18.45
SESSION
Cluster Initiatives: Implementation Challenges and Stories of Success

Summary

The most important mechanism for the innovations diffusion within the regional industrial clusters is a partnership of large companies with SME in such fields as development of outsourcing mechanisms, implementation of assistance programs on foreign markets entrance for enterprises of particular cluster, joint market research, use of vocational training programs, promoting the commercialization of research results, etc.
New impetus to cluster development was given by establishing the Centers for Cluster Development in several regions within the framework of State Support programs of SME.

Considering the high significance of the clusters formation and development for stimulating of companies and territories innovation activity, it is important to answer the following issues in the round table:
What initiatives are considered by regions to be real achievements in the field of cluster formation and development?
Which barriers and constraints arise in the processes of identification, formation and development of clusters?
How can the development institutions take part in supporting and developing of cluster initiatives?
What are the new approaches to cluster development?
What can we improve in mechanisms of cluster initiatives support at the federal, regional and local levels?
How do CCDs work?

Experience of implementation of cluster projects

Knyaginin Vladimir, Director of the Center for Strategic Research “North-West” Foundation

On the mechanisms of state support for cluster initiatives

Shadrin Artem, Director of the Strategic Management (programs) and Budgeting Department of the RF Ministry for Economic Development

On the Experience of the Design and Implementation of a Regional Cluster Initiative as an Example of Confectionery Cluster "Penza Confectionary Yard"

Krivov Uriy, Deputy Chairman of Government of Penza Region

Territorial Aspects of the Innovation Program of the Nuclear Industry

Malkhasyan Karen, Deputy Head of Department Working with Regions of State Atomic Energy Corporation "Rosatom"

Techniques for finding and training leaders of cluster initiatives

Tarasenko Vladislav, Senior Research Fellow, Department of the philosophical problems of scientific and technological development Institute of Philosophy

The Project "Creation of Cluster Development", Moscow

Kiselev Artem, Interregional Center of Industrial Subcontracting and Partnership

Cluster policy in St. Petersburg

Soloveychik Kirill, Deputy Chairman of Committee of the Economic Development, Industrial Policy and Trade

Blatt Igor, Scientific Adviser of Cluster Development Centre of Tomsk Region

Cluster initiatives Samara region as a tool for modernization of the regional economy in the context of globalization

Mikheev Yury, Genera lDirector of Volga Department of Russian Engineering Academy
Organizers