Servicing companies in the Big Science market: Learnings and outlook from the BIGINN cluster project

Tuesday 23 Jan 2024, 09:00 → 12:00 Europe/Zurich

NIkolaj Zangenberg (BigScience.dk)

The Big Science market in Europe is young and not yet fully mature, with still a great potential of development and growth. Also, there is little knowledge formally collected about industrial clustering in the field.

For the last two years, the BIGINN project has been working to structure and boost this market across Europe, by facilitating pan-European Big Science events, investigating and applying new services for companies and benchmarking Big Science clusters with other business areas.

The webinar will open a discussion with Industrial Liaisons Officers and other stakeholders, and some of the conclusions from BIGINN project will be outlined.

The BIGINN project was launched with the following goals:

• Improve SMEs global competitiveness by establishing international relations and collaborations.
• Employ cluster mobility schemes to implement cross-fertilization of innovation opportunities in different clusters;
• Strengthen and professionalize the cluster management skills in the new area of Big Science clusters;

Participants: Big Science ILOs (Industrial Liaisons Officers); purchasing and innovation representatives from Big Science facilities (CERN, ITER, etc.); other stakeholders.

BIGINN PERIIA 23 January 2024.pdf

BIGINN_Webinar.ics

09:00 → 09:15 Welcome and introduction

Welcome and short introduction of participants
Introduction to BIGINN project

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09:15 → 09:45 Managing Big Science industrial clusters - Outcome and learnings from the BIGINN project

• Introduction to the BIGINN project; objectives and main activities
• Analysis and identification of relevant cluster services for companies
• Experiences from international Big Science business missions (ClusterXchange)
• Benchmarking Big Science clusters with other industrial sectors

09:45 → 10:15 Panel discussion: Best practices and experiences from ILOs

Open floor session for ILOs to share best practices and experiences for providing services to companies and managing company clusters.

10:15 → 11:00 Roundtable discussion: Next steps for international collaboration in the BIg Science market

How does Big Science organisations (BSOs) work with companies and ILOs, respectively? What activities should be done only by BSO and which by ILOs?

From the company perspective, what are their needs and benefits from pan-European collaboration?

The BIGINN activities has demonstrated that coordinated business missions to BSOs with participants from more than one country benefits all. Is it possible to coordinate similar activities in the future? Who (BSOs, ILOs, business clusters) should join forces and be engaged for business missions, operating databases, maintaining competence matrixes, purchasing overviews, etc.?

What should be the next steps for stimulating a pan-European Big Science marketplace?

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