Lyon’s competitiveness clusters

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The benefits of competitiveness clusters

Competitiveness clusters enable:

industrial actors

- to obtain grants (funding)

- to keep in touch with the world of research

	private investors to build international partnerships
	academics

- to keep in touch with the world of industry and

- to build collaborative partnerships

Greater Lyon to support innovation in business

Greater Lyon and competitiveness clusters

Greater Lyon has supported competitiveness clusters since their creation in 2004, providing assistance both for activities and for projects.

Greater Lyon’s role

	Management support, lobbying
	Development engineering support: delivery, R&D projects, cross-functional projects, major projects
	Mobilisation of SME’s/SMI’s
	Introduction of a self-evaluation system
	Changes to economic development policies: relationship with universities, entrepreneurship, prospecting, communication
	Contribution to cluster funding:

- public authorities provide up to 30% of clusters’ funding (via corporation tax)*

- industrial actors provide the remaining 70%* of funding

* Vary according to the clusters and the projects

Greater Lyon grant allocation criteria

In order to be eligible for support from the Lyon urban community, a project must meet the following criteria:

	accredited by the competitiveness cluster
	supported by the government (FCE, OSEO ANVAR)
	collaborative public/private research project
	involve companies/laboratories located within the urban area
	project related to the urban community’s areas of competence
	SME’s/SMI’s and public laboratories
	expected economic and employment benefits

5 competitiveness clusters in Lyon

2 international competitiveness clusters

Global competitiveness cluster Biotechnologies, health

Global-focused competitiveness cluster Chemicals, environment

3 national clusters

Lyon Urban Truck&Bus competitiveness cluster Public and commercial transport by bus or truck [Transport systems, urban public and commercial transport]

Imaginove competitiveness cluster Digital entertainment: video games, cinema, audio-visual, animation, interactive multimedia

Techtera competitiveness cluster Technical and functional textiles