1 Clusters 4 Kenn Morris
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Borderless InnovationCrossborder Clusters,
Competitiveness,& Strategies for NewClusters
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Introduction
Kenn Morris
President & CEO of CrossborderGroup Inc.
California-based crossborder marketresearch and strategic consulting firmspecializing in border business and policy
Former Director of UCSD San DiegoDialogues Crossborder Innovation &Competitiveness Initiative
Lead researcher and lead author ofBorderless Innovation report
Done in collaboration w/ Gobierno de
Baja California, y CENTRIS
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Overview of Comments
Borderless Innovation &
Crossborder Technology
Clusters in San Diego-Baja California
Lessons for Crossborder
Technology Clusters inUS-Mexico Border
Growing New
Crossborder Cluster inLife Sciences
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Borderless Innovation
www.SanDiegoDialogue.org/borderless.htm
English & Spanish (although)
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A Regional Approach to
Borderless Innovation
San Diego & Baja California: region of innovation, R&D,technology manufacturing
Given economic & social linkages, felt that a latentopportunity to catalyze regional synergies was possible
But no comparable data existedacross the border
Crossborder Innovation & Competitiveness Initiative: identify
clusters of opportunityin high value-added sectors in thebinational region
Focus on selected technology intensive clusters: biomedical
devices, aerospace & defense, software, biotech, and others
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SD-Baja Cluster Findings
Biomedical Devices
Over 30,000 employed in Cluster(2003)
San Diego: 6,800
Baja California: 23,700
BC: highest number of FDA-certified
BD companies in Mexico (65+)
Many: Class 10,000 & 100,000 clean rooms
13 had HQ or operations in SD County
Sophisticated range of products
heart pumps & stents, lenses,
pacemakers, more
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SD-Baja Cluster Findings
Aerospace & Defense
Over 23,000 employed in Cluster(2003)
San Diego: 18,300
Baja California: 4,800
BC has highest concentration of
aerospace companies in Mexico
Knew that San Diego was
regrowing cluster after major
declines in 1990s
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Binational S&T Workforce
Larger than expected,and growing
Surveyed large regionaluniversities
More Borderlesstechnology graduatesthan known:
FACT: More engineering
degrees issued by majorBC universities than inSD (industrial)
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Binational Software Degrees
A Perspective-
Changing Result Most of San Diegos
software industry leadersassumed very few
software graduates inBaja California
Very surprised that UABCgraduated more
individuals with softwaredegrees than UCSD
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Why did we do theBorderless Innovation study?
What did we learn?
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San Diego & Baja CA are worried aboutsustainable competitiveness
World is Flat : More than just China & India
Large number of existing and emerging regions of
technology & innovation across globe Next two decades: China & India.
After that?
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Lesson: Broader Implications
Implications for
Californias tech
industries Biomedical devices: Over
53,000 employed in CA
Aerospace (SouthernCalifornia)
Automotive
Software
Semiconductors
and all other US-
Mexico border states
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Example: Aerospace & Defense
Within 1000 miles ofPhoenix, most of US andMexico aerospaceemployment
35% of US aerospaceemployment in 4 US borderstates
Arizona & Sonora: Majorconcentration of aerospacecompanies (Raytheon,
Honeywell, Boeing, etc.)
With good data: potentialfor4 State AerospaceStrategy and Marketing
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Example: Semiconductors & Silicon Border
Silicon Border Technology park in Mexicali, goal of 1-2 semiconductor fabrication facilities
If successfulpotential synergy with technology
industries in all US-Mexico border states
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Growing New CrossborderLife Sciences Clusters
& Observations
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New Cluster Research: Life Science
UCSD-Merck project
4 Regions (plus one): Nuevo Leon
Guanajuato
Jalisco
Morelos
Plus: Baja CA
Why these? Doctoral and Masters
degree graduates Existing facilities &
linkages to US-biotechindustry
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Life Sciences: What Were Seeing
Excellent research, some facilitiesare world class, some haveincubator and contract researchspace
Science is world class, but smallnumber of highly capablescientists
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Life Sciences: What Were Seeing
Increasing number of SNIresearchers in key states
Emerging risk capital insome regions (not all)
Need to communicate
better what resources theyhave (Google Metric)
Butlittle experience withcommercializinginnovationsand
Google Metric: "Biotechnology"
11,700,000
7,280,000
2,680,000
2,155,000
1,835,000
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china biotechnology
california biotechnology
india biotechnology
"san diego" biotechnology
mexico biotechnology
monterrey biotechnology
guadalajara biotechnology
"baja california" biotechnology
"nuevo leon" biotechnology
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Cluster Growth: A Culture of Innovation
Future cluster growth willrequire incentives andgrowing culture ofinnovation
Large part of this relates tonew innovations andpatents
Trend not positive Often, incentive is to publish,
not patent
Published research underminesIP of Mexican innovations
New mechanisms:provisional patents in Mex?
Patents by Mexican Innovators
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Beyond Borderless Innovation
Potential for North American Crossborder Innovation &Competitiveness Initiative?
Take concept beyond San Diego-Baja California: Need
additional data and regional assessments in border states of clusters of innovation & opportunity
Some hope: North American Council on Competitiveness,and emerging regional economic development agreements
Such data is CRITICAL to civic and industry leaders topromote a new binational vision of clusters and economicdevelopment
Opportunity to catalyze technology clusters andcompetitiveness if we choose path ofBorderlessInnovation
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Borderless InnovationThank You Gracias
Kenn [email protected]
Copies of Borderless Innovation report:www.sandiegodialogue.org
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