How to develop collaboration between bioeconomy clusters through a digital platform
Fan, Chaonan (2018)
2018
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2019060615192
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2019060615192
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At the beginning of the 20th century, Europe decided to take resource-efficient and sustainable economy as its national develop strategy. The Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme 2014-2020 is a project which is funded by European Union that aims at integrated territorial development and cooperation for a more innovative, accessible and sustainable Baltic Sea Region. The RDI2CluB project is part of the Interreg Baltic Sea Region project family, which concentrates on strengthening the ability of the Baltic Sea Region and stimulating the potentiality and commercial innovation of the region.
The objective of the thesis was to analyze and prescreen the target digital platforms which including TCI, ECCP, GCCA, ScanBalt BioRegion by using a theoretical framework that was summarized from the literature review to identify the best partners for further collaboration.
The theoretical assessment criteria were taken references from the academic study of “five types of actors in a cluster, benefits to the businesses in a cluster, the necessary of clusters need to collaborate with each other, IKT Grenland report”.
The qualitative research enables readers to grasp more details from each platform in order to benefit the decision making of the RDI2CluB project. The data was collected from the website of each platform, as well as from the interviews of platform managers.
After analysis and comparison, the ECCP platform was found to be the most ideal cooper- ation partner due to its comprehensive platform with a high bioeconomy concentration and active performance. The ScanBalt BioRegion ranks the number 2 on the collaboration list. The GCCA platform ranks the number 3 on the collaboration list, and the TCI platform ranks the last.
The limitation of this research is the lack of data. In future academic research, where data is available, a possible research angle is to consider “the efficiency of the activities orga- nized by the platform and how the platform members innovate as extra assessments.
The objective of the thesis was to analyze and prescreen the target digital platforms which including TCI, ECCP, GCCA, ScanBalt BioRegion by using a theoretical framework that was summarized from the literature review to identify the best partners for further collaboration.
The theoretical assessment criteria were taken references from the academic study of “five types of actors in a cluster, benefits to the businesses in a cluster, the necessary of clusters need to collaborate with each other, IKT Grenland report”.
The qualitative research enables readers to grasp more details from each platform in order to benefit the decision making of the RDI2CluB project. The data was collected from the website of each platform, as well as from the interviews of platform managers.
After analysis and comparison, the ECCP platform was found to be the most ideal cooper- ation partner due to its comprehensive platform with a high bioeconomy concentration and active performance. The ScanBalt BioRegion ranks the number 2 on the collaboration list. The GCCA platform ranks the number 3 on the collaboration list, and the TCI platform ranks the last.
The limitation of this research is the lack of data. In future academic research, where data is available, a possible research angle is to consider “the efficiency of the activities orga- nized by the platform and how the platform members innovate as extra assessments.