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CLUNET WORKING GROUP
Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal
1002, Sherbrooke street West, suite 2400
Montreal (Quebec) H3A 3L6, CANADA
Working group objectives
and
program
CLUNET WORKING
GROUP
Europe meets America
20-21 September 2007
Working Group Objectives
 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
CLUNET WORKING
GROUP
Europe meets America
20-21 September 2007
Program
Thursday, 20th September 2007
Montreal Working Group
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
10h00 Montreal and other North American
Regions –
Benchmarking Cluster Policies
• Yves Charette, MMC
10h30 Comfort Break
10h45 Canadian 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
12h00 General Findings of CLUNET Work
Package 2 – 30 minutes
• Laura Righi, Direzione Generale
dello Sviluppo Economico,
Etruria Innovazione (Toscana)
• Marc Pattinson, Director innoTSD
12h30 Lunch and Networking
14h30 Montreal’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
15h30 Discussion
• Moderator, Maxime Trottier,
MMC
16h30 Adjournment and Return to Hotel
17h50 Departure from Hotel - Reception for
CLUNET Partners and Guest
Speakers
“Discovering Montreal from the SaintLawrence River”
+ Press release / Photos
CLUNET WORKING
GROUP
Europe meets America
20-21 September 2007
Program
Friday, 21st September 2007
CLUNET Regular Meeting
8h00
Meeting place : Hotel Lobby
12h15 Lunch and networking
8h30
Breakfast - Arrival & Registration
14h00 MoU and Cluster alliance
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
Discussion about Memorandum of
understanding (MP)
Networking and cooperation with
other Inno-NETS (FM+LT)
15h30 Preparation of the Stockholm
meeting in January 08
Next activities and action plan
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)
Regional and national
Communication
17h00 Adjournment 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-Nowka
Ministry 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
Clunet guest speaker
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
Guest speaker
biographies
David A. Wolfe’s Biography
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.
Michael B. Darch’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.
Daniel E. Bosley’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.
Lyne Bouchard’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.