Smart Clusters for Smart Growth through Joint Business Intelligence

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Date of latest update: 2024-03-26

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Description (EN):

Project 4SmartGrowth aims at increasing the CB smart solutions providing SMEs export possibilities by opening the already existing business connections that partners have reached separately, into the joint use of all five partner regions´ SMEs. This is a unique approach that can only be based on a mutual trust and previous cooperation between the partners and the clusters that they represent. Partners have existing cooperation and direct contacts with Guangzhou region and Hebei province in China and realistic plan on how to initiate business contacts in Chile. These regions are currently implementing Smart City Master Plans (or equivalent masterplans) and are actively looking for different smart solutions to implement these plans. Partners have agreed to jointly use these business connections to increase the CB region SMEs export. CB clusters have the potential to provide such solutions but need business support to reach the actual deals. Partners have preliminarily agreed to focus on CB clusters that provide smart solutions on mobility, sustainability, healthy population, green solutions and energy consumption. Benefit of chosen approach is twofold: 1. Partner regions and their target SMEs benefit from hard work that has been done separately by partners in order to establish and nourish these business connections, and based on that work, more SMEs and in a wider geographical area in CB will have the export possibilities; 2. Target markets, being huge in comparison with CB partner regions separately, will receive better and more complex product / service offers that better fit their needs in process of implementing their smart masterplans. Project will create action plans for each market, select and train the SMEs that has potential to start export, develops the business support for SMEs tailor made for each market, and organises export missions / pilot cases implementation into the target markets.

Achievements (EN):

4Smart Growth increased export of Central Baltic region SME's to China and Chile. The overall objective of the project was to jointly use the existing business intelligence and connections that partners had with 2 regions in China and Chile for increasing the export of the CB region SMEs. Project main planned result was to reach 3-4 sales agreements in 3 markets during or shortly after the project, and to organise export missions for 30 SMEs from CB clusters to new markets. Due to the COVID-19, the project had to adapt and implement a turnaround from the traditional physical traveling to external markets with a digital matchmaking program. This taught the consortium that it is possible to arrange successful export activities online. 35 companies attended digital matchmaking activities in 3 markets. By the end of the project 3 sales agreements (one in Chile and 2 in China) and 2 commercial representation agreements were signed. There are still 41 pilots under discussions that hopefully will turn in to agreements in near future.

Website: http://centralbaltic.eu/

Expected Results (EN): R1.3. Number of cluster co-operations exporting to new markets

Expected Outputs (EN): Project contributes to the Programme result indicator: - 6 export missions of 30 SMEs from CB clusters to 3 new markets; - 3-4 sales agreements reached OR pilots implemented in 3 markets during or shortly after the project.

Thematic information

Clustering and economic cooperation New products and services SME and entrepreneurship

Specific Objective: More exports by the Central Baltic companies to new markets

Thematic Objective: (03) enhancing the competitiveness of SMEs by:

Investment Priority: (03d) supporting the capacity of SMEs to grow in regional, national and international markets, and to engage in innovation processes

Partners (5)

Lead Partner: SISP Swedish Incubators & Science Parks

Address: Mäster Samuelsgatan nr 60, floor 9, 11121 Stockholm, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.sisp.se

Total budget: EUR 265 583.00

ERDF budget: EUR 199 187.25

Tampereen kaupunkiseudun elinkeino- ja kehitysyhtiö Tredea OY

Name: Tampereen kaupunkiseudun elinkeino- ja kehitysyhtiö Tredea OY

Address: Kelloportinkatu 1 B, 33100 Tampere, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: https://businesstampere.com/

Total budget: EUR 199 100.00

ERDF budget: EUR 149 325.00

Västerås Science Park AB

Name: Västerås Science Park AB

Address: Expectrum, Kopparbergsvägen 10, 722 13 Västerås, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.vasterassciencepark.se

Total budget: EUR 200 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 150 000.00

Turku Science Park Oy Ab

Name: Turku Science Park Oy Ab

Address: Lemminkäisenkatu 14-18 C, FI-20520 Turku, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.turkusciencepark.com

Total budget: EUR 200 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 150 000.00

Sihtasutus Tallinna Teaduspark Tehnopol

Name: Sihtasutus Tallinna Teaduspark Tehnopol

Address: Teaduspargi 6/1, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.tehnopol.ee

Total budget: EUR 199 150.00

ERDF budget: EUR 169 277.50

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Tampere Region Economic Development Agency Tredea

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Västerås Science Park AB

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Turku Science Park Ltd

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Foundation Tallinn Science Park TEHNOPOL

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SISP Swedish Incubators & Science Parks

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Summary

Project name (EN): Smart Clusters for Smart Growth through Joint Business Intelligence

Project acronym: 4Smart Growth

Project start date: 2019-04-01

Project end date: 2021-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 063 833.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 817 789.75

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 817 789.75.

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-11-11

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

137 / 137 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

663 / 663 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://centralbaltic.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-11-08, 2023-01-12 and 2024-03-08.

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