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Bringing together the efforts of industrial enterprises in clusters will increase the pace of development of the industrial sector and its contribution to the economic and social development of the Republic of Moldova, create the premises for the development of other sectors of the national economy and contribute to the effective promotion of Moldovan products and trademarks in foreign markets, declared Deputy Minister Dumitru Godoroja at the Regional Seminar “Cluster Development in South-East Europe”, held today in Chișinău under the EU-funded Programme for Smart Cluster Policies in South-East Europe, ClusterPolisee.

With the objective of industrialising the country, the authorities are looking for new business cooperation models to overcome the difficulties they face. And international experience shows that clustering increases the competitiveness and efficiency of enterprises, stimulates innovation and increases the ability of both large and small and medium-sized enterprises to compete in international markets, the Vice Minister for the Economy said.

The ClusterPolisee programme aims to define, develop and implement regional cluster policies, enable the use of shared resources, integrate activities along the global value chain, combining the advantages of competitive regions and international synergies. The main objective of the project is to increase policy makers’ capacity to intervene, prevent risks and anticipate change, develop a smart specialisation strategy to improve cluster activity, while accelerating differentiation and structural changes towards a knowledge-based economy where there is room for any of the South East European regions.

The seminar presented the experience of the Free Balti Economic Zone, which brings together automotive manufacturers and suppliers, support programmes run by state institutions, including the Organisation for the Development of SMEs (ODIMM), and the recent experience of creating a cluster under SA Topaz. On 12 December 2013, it brought together 10 industrial cooperation partners under the science and technology cluster ‘Elcim-Moldova’. Registered as a non-profit organisation, it aims to unite companies in the information technology and software sector, as well as academic researchers, and to encourage efforts to create new technologies for the industrial sector through programmes in the medium and long term.

We recall that the ClusterPolisee project aims to set up a collaborative IT platform, used as a mechanised learning system for partnerships, to improve South-East European cluster policies. It also aims to increase the added value resulting from transnational cooperation – all based on an open and interactive online mutual learning medium. The project will carry out analyses of regional cluster policies to identify successful practices to multiply them, but will also propose new smart policies to improve the processing of relevant data.

source: mec.gov.md