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Year in Review 2013Prepared By: Leslie O’ReillyExecutive Director (Past)February 2014
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Outline
Strategic Roadmap 2013- 2016 Process Goals
Outcomes: Key Pillars Cluster Building Innovation Ecosystem Business Development
• Selected Highlights 2013• Successes across the Cluster• Critical Challenges to Cluster Growth• Going Forward
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Strategic Roadmap 2013-2016
Ground Up Approach - Processo Broad Cluster Engagemento Collaborative & Consultativeo Validation
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Strategic Roadmap 2013-2016 (cont’d)
Goalso Identify Prioritieso Identify Strategies o Establish Action Areas
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Outcomes: Key PillarsCluster Building
Innovation Ecosystem
Business Development
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Cluster Building
Focus: Grow & Build Local Cluster as “Honest Broker”
Building Collaboration and Alignment across Cluster
Int’l Business Development Strategy – A Shared Focus
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Innovation Ecosystem
Focus: Fuel & Support Innovation to Critical MassCollaboration -Memorial & Private SectorIncreased Commercialization Fuelled by R&DExplore Initiatives to Improve Flow of IP
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Business Development Focus: Existing Companies Expand & New
Companies AddedProactively Facilitate Company to
Company Collaborative R&DTraining and Mentorship – Executive
Level Sales, Channel DevelopmentMarket Opportunity Reports- Connect
Companies to Opportunities
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Selected Highlights 2013Cluster BuildingInternational Standards Organization “Arctic
Operations” Technical Committeeo Hosting Plenary & Work Groups (October 2013)o Facilitated Roundtable (November)o Coordination Canada Mirror Work Group (January 2014)
Oceans 2014Conferenceo Liaison with Organizing Committeeo Hosting Conference Office/ Administration
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Selected Highlights (cont’d) Cluster Building (Cont’d)• Speaker Series –Co Sponsored City of St. John’s –
5 Events
o Cluster Collaboration & Entrepreneurial Start-Ups
(February) – Antonio Simoes Re
o Institutional – Private Sector Collaboration
(February) - Dr. Brian Veitch
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Selected Highlights (cont’d)o Insight into Business Dev’l Opportunities in Rio
Grande, Brazil, Dr. Danilo Giroldo, V.P. Fed University of Rio Grande
o Overview – Holyrood Ocean Innovation Initiative
(July) – Barry Snow
o ISO Roundtable “Arctic Operations” Standards Dev’l – Pathway to Arctic
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Selected Highlights (cont’d)Innovation EcosystemCompletion of R&D Collaborative Model
(Consortium)Ongoing Meetings with Officials @Memorial
UniversityConsultation – Proposed Joint Chair @Memorial –
Innovation/Enpreneurship/CommercializationProposed Connector Event: Research - Industry
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Selected Highlights (cont’d)Business DevelopmentFacilitated In-Coming Chinese Mission (June
2013) & Oceanology 2013, ShanghaiParticipated in Rio Grande, Brazil Ocean Tech
Fair (March 2013)
Co-Hosted In-Coming Brazilian Discovery Mission, June 2013
Coordination of Export Dev’l Canada- Petrobras Officials Visit to St. John’s (Fall 2013)
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Selected Highlights (cont’d)Business Development (cont’d)
Coordination of local company participation in Canada Italian C of C visit to Genoa, Italy (Oct 2013)
Co-Hosted Roundtable – Ireland/NL Partnership Opportunities (January 2014)
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Successes across the ClusterStrengthened Alignment of Support
Programs: Industry-Research-Government-Agencies
Growing Inter Cluster Innovation & Collaborationo Company to Companyo Research to Company
Strengthened Engagement: Companies – University R&D Agendas
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Successes across the Cluster (cont’d)“Quickened” Pace in Cluster Confidence –
Business Development People-Products- Services- Markets
Supportive R&D & Leveraged Funding Environment
High Impact Cross Cluster Communications –”Oceans Go To Website”
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Critical Challenges to Cluster GrowthCluster Building
o Brand Region: “Place to Be” – “Location of Choice”
o Strengthen Industry Leadership – A Differentiator
o Increase Collaboration and Communication – Cluster Coalescence
o Strengthen International Alliances & Global Reach
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Critical Challenges to Cluster Growth (cont’d)
Innovation Ecosystemo Memorial University – Industry: A Model of
Collaborationo Discover Innovative Approaches to Industry
Led R&D and IPo Attract and Retain Highly Qualified People
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Critical Challenges to Cluster Growth (cont’d)
Business DevelopmentoExpansion of Companies & New Start-
upsoPromote Sector Investment Attraction
Strategies
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Going Forward
Leverage & Build on Cluster Best Practices
Develop a Framework and Action Agenda for a Leading Sustainable Cluster with Global Reach
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