Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

Supporting start-up ecosystems

15 November 2018, Ljubljana

Borut Ložar Policy Officer – SME policy

DG GROW

Annual Report on European SMEs 2017/2018 (to be published on 20/11/2018) 2

Employment creation by start-ups Current number of employees in start-ups and average planned hires within next 12 months – results of start-ups survey (EU start-up monitor)

12.8

8.2

10.8

12.5 12.5

17.0 17.2

9.0

7.4

14.5

5.2

11.310.6

8.8

21.2

5.4

12.7 13.0

19.4

7.5

4.0

5.7

8.1 7.8

9.89.0

5.5 6.0

8.2

3.4

7.3 7.8 7.3

9.5

5.8 6.17.4

12.8

Current Planned hires

startupeuropeclub.eu

een.ec.europa.eu

European Enterprise Network

Erasmus for Entrepreneus

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www.access2finance.eu

Cluster collaboration & intelligence tools Comparing regional strengths

(sectoral & cross-sectoral

cluster mapping)

Finding partners/cluster organisations

(partner search, matchmaking, etc.)

• Mapping over 800 cluster organisations • 320 clusters having 1400 meetings with

internat. partners & 500 with EU partners • 10.000 monthly visitors to the website • 4.500 subscriptions to newsletters and

weekly digests • over 1000 news items published • 600 events promoted • more than 800 followers and about 1000

contributions on Twitter http://www.clustercollaboration.eu

• Clusters in 51 sectors • 10 emerging industries • Regional Ecosystem

Scoreboard (bottlenecks) • Cluster trends report • Cluster Policies in Member

States

http://ec.europa.eu/growth/smes/cluster/observatory

2018

•EU-Western Balkan countries Policy Learning & Matchmaking Event, Zagreb, 22-23 Nov. 2018

Energy Cleantech Smart city Transport (electric mobility) Enabling technologies used to develop innovations

in clean energy products, services and solutions, such as lightweighting, composites, additive manufacturing, nanotechnology, ICT

International Cluster Match-making Events

https://www.clustercollaboration.eu/event-calendar/eu-western-balkans-cluster-policy-learning-and-matchmaking-event

Further information • EU Cluster Portal:

• http://ec.europa.eu/growth/smes/cluster/

• European Strategic Cluster Partnerships

• http://www.clustercollaboration.eu/eu-cluster-partnerships

• European Cluster Collaboration Platform (ECCP)

• http://www.clustercollaboration.eu/

• COSME calls

• https://ec.europa.eu/easme/en/cosme

• Thank you for your attention

Cluster facilitated projects for new industrial value chains - Innovation action (INNOSUP-1) https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/6084-innosup-01-2016-2017.html