The establishment of an entirely new industrial value chain, or the radical reconfiguration of an existing one, driven by a disruptive idea (or convergence of ideas), leading to turning these ideas/opportunities into new products/services with higher added value

1. Emerging Industries in Europe:
mergering, clustering, specialisation
and trends
José Antonio Blanco
Fundación para el Conocimiento madri+d
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Círculo de Bellas Artes
Madrid, 10 Diciembre 2014

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EC Challenges
• 1. Supporting industrial transformation
• 2. Strengthening SMEs' competitiveness
• 3. Accelerating regional smart specialisation
• 4. Enabling SME internationalisation
• 5. Promoting cluster excellence
• 6. Facilitating emerging industries and new
value chains

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5. “the establishment of an entirely new industrial value chain, or
the radical reconfiguration of an existing one, driven by a
disruptive idea (or convergence of ideas), leading to turning
these ideas/opportunities into new products/services with
higher added value”
(Fuente: Heffernan & Phaal, 2009)
“Emerging industries can be understood as new industries or
existing industries that are evolving through the merger in
new industries”.
(Fuente: Smart Guide to Service Innovation, 2012)
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6. Markets and R&D drive the transformation
Source: Europe Innova Report 2012 “Emerging industries: report on the methodology for their
classification and on the most active, significant and relevant new emerging industrial sectors”
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7. Emerging industries: characteristics
1. High growth potential because their novelty
2. Are formed on the basis of a new product, service or idea
3. Result from cross‐sector spillovers
4. Tend to be research and knowledge‐intensive industries
5. Nurture entrepreneurship and an innovative spirit
6. Trigger and enable structural change in the market
7. Are characterised by a state of disequilibria, as their
emergence often results from a disruptive idea
8. Have a high propensity to cluster
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8. Value chains are being reconfigured
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automotive supply chains

11. most educated and productive employees
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12. focus of European policy
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key sector in future
European economy and
has been growing faster
than any emerging
industry in the past two
decades

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software
wireless services
ecommerce

15. cut through all sectors of the economy
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16. composed of millions of SMEs at the intersection of arts and business
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18. growing employment in local health care services
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20. NEW CREATIVE USES OF
TECHNOLOGY
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21. EXTENSION TO NEW SECTORS
AND INDUSTRIES
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26. This 10 emerging industries …..
…cover more than 45 million employees in
Europe, which corresponds to 22% of all
European employment and 35% of European
payroll.
• …register levels of average wage and value
added that are at €30 000 and €76 000 per
employee significantly higher than for the
economy as a whole, which averages €23 000
and €62 000 respectively.
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27. The 10 emerging industries: jobs
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29. European hotspots of emerging industries
• …include 44 regions that score high on a
combination of emerging industry performance
metrics.
• …account 37% of its total GDP.
• …are located either in a narrow stretch from
Southern Germany to the Benelux and South‐western
England, a Baltic Sea Region corridor from
Denmark and the Swedish west coast to Stockholm
and Southern Finland, or selected capital regions in
other parts of Europe.
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31. 300 trasnational stakeholders
Connection of 100 SMEs with CIP countries
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32. THANK YOU !!
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