Category: Economic Development

A project funded by UNDP, charting a new sustainable economic direction for the Southeast Anatolia region in Turkey.

In a project for the Government of Turkey, funded by UNDP, Anteja professionals worked with a team of international experts to design a vision, strategy and action plan for the Southeast Anatolia region of Turkey. The competitiveness agenda was designed as an effort to develop a framework for transforming the region’s economy. The competitiveness agenda charts a new sustainable economic direction for the region and develops a cohesive framework for its further elaboration and implementation.

Anteja developed recommendations for a significant shift in policy, featuring a public/private partnership approach, intensive internationalization program, and regional branding as the emerging world’s leading renewable energy & organic product center (e.g. organic food products and cotton for baby clothes). Additional recommendations on applied technology centers and privatization of significant portions of the irrigation system. The potential for ecologically sustainable hotels and tourist attractions was central to the plan.

• Competitiveness assessment of agricultural and food processing, textile, and tourism sectors.
• Training needs assessment, development of training curriculum and delivery of cluster specific training
• Fact Finding to build a better understanding of the business environment in the region.
• Competitiveness Analysis (desk research, interviews, focus groups)
• Facilitation of workshops with high-level government and business leaders
• Development of a comprehensive local economic development strategy with focus on green innovation
• Development of specific strategies for areas under focus
• Providing policy advice to regional administration

Anteja provided policy advice in various projects related to science, technology and innovation.

Client: UNDP, Government of Turkey

Date: 2007 – 2008

A project for increasing cooperation between clusters and networks in Central and Eastern Europe.

This project aimed to increase the cooperation between clusters and networks in Central and Eastern Europe. The CEE Cluster Network focuses on linking the eleven partner regions/countries, whose innovation policies focus on cluster and network policy using an INNO-Net. The main objective was to find coherence in the different regional cluster policy implementation methodologies and to shape a common policy by defining common strategic issues, strategies and programmes.

Joint Quality Guidelines were prepared, cross border networks of key innovation and CEE actors were created, common issues and needs of SMEs and governments (within all participating regions) were investigated and presented in a “Cluster Memorandum”  expressing the intention of  coherent innovation policy development. Linkages with existing and planned European innovation programs and initiatives of CEE initiatives were identified and innovation cluster operational programs were designed  for joint trans-regional projects. Regional and national level innovation, cluster initiatives and support programs were analyzed. 

In Slovenia, a capacity building on policy development on the regional level was provided.

Services provided:

• Analyzing existing innovation and cluster initiatives and programs.
• Mapping of relationships and linkages among regional stakeholders.
• Needs identification and identification and assessment of potential for international cooperation.
• Identification of fields / industrial sectors / clusters with strong potential for collaboration and elaboration of pilot actions.
• Support in drafting of agreement of CEE Cluster Network partners.

Partners: Upper Austrian Technology and Marketing TMG – Clusterland Upper Austria.

Client: European Commission

Date: 2006 – 2008

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