26 may 2011 1 copenhagen | 26.05.2011 ngp cluster excellence conference 2011, workshop „how should...

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Copenhagen | 26.05.2011

NGP Cluster Excellence Conference 2011,Workshop „How should clusters be financed?“

Spitzencluster Medical Valley Europäische Metropolregion Nürnberg

Jörg Trinkwalter, Medical Valley EMN e.V.

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genda

■Spitzencluster Medical Valley EMN

■Financing structure of Medical Valley EMN today!

■Financing structure of Medical Valley EMN tomorrow?

■Discussion

Agenda

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2. Success factors of Medical Valley EMN

Spitzencluster Medical Valley EMN

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■Three competition rounds of 200 Mio. € subsidies each

■Five leading edge clusters selected per competition round (40 Mio. € subsidies per leading edge cluster)

■Two competition rounds are already finished

■Subsidies: up to 50% co-financing for R&D projects within the cluster

Germanys Spitzencluster (leading edge clusters)


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Cluster Management

• Founded 2007 by key-stakeholders

from companies, sciences,

healthcare and politics to

coordinate, develop and market the

regional medical technology cluster

• 7 employees, 4 full-time, 3 part-

time

• 106 members (May 2011)

• 84 of them are companies



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1. The leading edge cluster competition of the BMBF

How is Medical Valley financed right now?

Financing structure Medical Valley EMN today!

Budget

Membership fees

Management contracts

Sponsoring Public funded projects

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Budget

Membership fees



7% 26% 16% 51%

765 T€/a

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Budget

Membership fees



7% 26% 16% 51%

765 T€/a

• 106 members• Fees from 200 Euro to 5.000 Euro per year

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Budget

Membership fees



7% 26% 16% 51%

765 T€/a

• Innovation Centre for Medical Technology Erlangen (Incubator with 35 StartUps right now)

• Regional public information platforms

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Budget

Membership fees



7% 26% 16% 51%

765 T€/a

• Actually 4 premium sponsors with concrete sponsoring contracts

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Budget

Membership fees



7% 26% 16% 51%

765 T€/a

• EU-Project “IntraMED C2C”• 2 BMBF-Projects on national level (Clustermanagement 2.0, International

Clustermarketing)• 1 Project funded by the Free State of Bavaria (VC-Network…)

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How is Medical Valley financed tomorrow?

■ Clustermanagement structures are financed until 2015 (contracts, subsidies…)

■ Right now Medical Valley EMN is developing a roadmap together with the board of the association and key-stakeholders for the year 2015 and further on

■ Which scenarios do we discuss…?


Financing structure Medical Valley EMN tomorrow!

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■ Scenarios:

Increase number of members / Increase payments for yearly membership fees!

Increase sponsoring incomes!

Increase incomes of management contracts!

Development of services models?

o VC-Acquisition, VC-Fund

o Buying syndicate

o Sales mentoring programmes

o …..


Financing structure Medical Valley EMN tomorrow!

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Budget

Membership fees


Sponsoring Public funded projects/Services

15% (7%)

30% (26%)

30% (16%)

25% (51%)

765 T€/a

• Further recommendations?• Cluster/Cluster services as a public infrastructure? Who´s paying for it?

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hanks for your attention!

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