Central Baltic Cleantech Clusters expanding to East of EU markets

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

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Description (EN):

CB2East aims at strenghtening Central Baltic Areas economical competitiveness by creating commercially targeted open innovation platforms in between Latvia and Finland. Key areas are sustainable eco-efficiency and water expertise solution needs in North-West Russia and Central Asia. Both target market areas have already shown remarkable market potential for Finnish and Latvian SMEs but the lack of critical mass and needed capabilities have created an obstacle for successfull commercial entries to the markets. CB2East catalyses transnational innovation collaboration for clusters based on challenge-driven and smart specialization approaches. New element of the approach is the use of inclusive model of collaboration, co-creative innovation processes including open innovation test-beds and new communication tools. It creates unique combinations of (meta)clusters complementary competences with good potential to develop specialized solutions to the target market needs. These strategic platforms support transnational clusters intermediaries on their operational projects helping companies in their business development and fruitful commercialization of joint ideas internationally. Platforms help to create concept and capability development, improve resource management, knowledge sharing, new market exploration and help companies to plug in to global value chains. Expected outputs are transnational coaching programmes for cluster intermediaries and SMEs including tools for building and strenghtening the cooperation and increasing cultural understanding and business capabilities. For partners benchmarking trips to targeted areas, joint events, market intelligence tools and long-term strategic action plans are made. Final output is a continuous and commercially succesfull transnational state-of-art cooperation in between two countries and a model that can be spread to the neighbouring CB countries in the future.

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

Expected Outputs (EN):

CB2East project creates transnational meta-cluster platforms resulting in new collaboration, transnational value chains and business pilots in the chosen target markets between the businesses in the partner countries.The number of created cluster co-operations exporting to new markets is four: Water/ Central Asia, Water/ St. Petersburg/North-West Russia, Eco- and energy efficiency/ Central Asia, Eco- and energy efficiency/ St. Petersburg/North-West Russia.Created meta-clusters bring added value for participating existing national clusters by enhancing their market knowledge and business processes and understanding better the challenging and continuously changing target markets. The project creates new models for transnational collaboration and participants learn how to use inclusive, challenge-driven innovation methods combined with smart specialization and open innovation testbed thinking.Main results are four new transnational meta-clusters doing commercially viable projects in new markets in innovation and business collaboration, new competences and capabilities for participants, increased involvement and information flow. Meta-clusters intermediaries'' capabilities are strengthened and they are able to adapt new transnational challenge driven innovative concepts in their thinking and strategy formation and hence implement them to their everyday operations with other cluster parties.Specific tools for transnational communication, cultural awareness and transnational cooperation skills, benchmarking and evaluation, knowledge how to access different finance sources, strategy development and implementation tools, knowledge sharing and matchmaking tools are also a part of the results. All these project results raise significantly meta-clusters` awareness and skills. They jointly create new methods on how to form and operate successfull and profitable processes to enter new export markets and also together join the global value chains.

Themes

Water management Clustering and economic cooperation 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

Lead Partner (EN): Finnish Water Forum

Lead Partner: Finnish Water Forum/ Suomen vesifoorumi ry

Department: International affairs

Address: Arkadiankatu 16 C 1, 100 Helsinki, Finland

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.finnishwaterforum.fi

Total budget: EUR 355 230.33

ERDF budget: EUR 266 422.75

Green Net Finland

Name: Green Net Finland ry

Address: Elannontie 3, 1510 Vantaa, Finland

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.greennetfinland.fi/en

Total budget: EUR 245 400.00

ERDF budget: EUR 184 050.00

Latvian Biotechnology association

Name: Latvijas Biotehnoloģijas asociācija

Department: CLEANTECH LATVIA

Address: Dzērbenes 27, LV - 1006 Rīga, Latvia

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.cleantechlatvia.com

Total budget: EUR 298 435.00

ERDF budget: EUR 253 669.75

Summary

Project name (EN): Central Baltic Cleantech Clusters expanding to East of EU markets

Project acronym: CB2East

Period: 2014-2020

Date of latest update: 2020-12-14

Website: http://centralbaltic.eu/

Project start date: 2015-09-01

Project end date: 2018-09-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 899 065.33

European Union funding: EUR 704 142.50

Co-financing sources: ERDF

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Finnish Water Forum

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

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