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Clusters Clusters and and SMEsSMEs

CEICEI--EBRD EBRD Cooperation Cooperation in Croatiain Croatia

6 April 20046 April 2004

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Overview Overview 1)1)

Conclusions 3Conclusions 3rdrd CEI workshop on Clusters CEI workshop on Clusters

- Find individual model of clusters (relative to region, type of industry)

- Clusters as partnership (CBC and local, national, international)

- Clusters growth points to be found in forum events, networking with associations, esp. SME associations, local banks, and intermediaries at local, national and international level


Overview Overview 2)2)


Need to evaluate

- Strengths, weaknesses and opportunities

Evaluation done through

- Local industries

- Know-how

- Work force

- National and international institutions, companies, networks


Overview Overview 3) 3)


- THINK GLOBALLY – internationalisation, keep up with pace of technological and IT development

- Explore FINANCING at various level (enterprises)

- Develop and / or improve RANGE OF BANKING AND FINANCIAL PRODUCTS, esp. in support to SMEs and clusters development

- LEADERSHIP, need strong leadership, also trainings and development of models for ensuring top leaders

- GOAL, define what the enterprise can be, local partnership, areas, what the area has got to sell / offer


CEI CoCEI Co--operationoperationCEI role in regional co-operation

CEI role in Regional CoCEI role in Regional Co--operationoperation

• Develop Strategies (with partners in the 17 countries)

• Mobilise national resources (Summit, WGs, Ministerial meetings) and international support(EU, UN, IFIs, OECD, CoE etc.)

• Investment Facilitation Programme for know-how transfer between CEI countries

• Co-operation Activities, Forum (Investiguideand “Match-making programme”

• Project opportunities promotion (through the POM in co-operation with the UNECE)

• Technical Co-operation for special projects


Working Working Groups Groups SystemSystem

•WG on Agriculture Poland•WG on Civil Protection Italy•WG on Combating Organised Crime Italy & Slovak Republic•WG on Culture and Education Slovak Republic and FRY•WG on Energy Ukraine•WG on Environment Austria and Hungary (Task Force E&T)•WG on HRD&T Czech Republic•WG on Information and Media Romania and FRY•WG on Interregional and CBC Hungary and Poland•WG on Migration Hungary and Belarus•WG on Minorities Hungary and Romania•WG on Reconstruction and Development BiH and Croatia•WG on Science and Technology Italy•WG on SMEs Slovenia and Croatia•WG on Tourism Croatia•WG on Transport Italy•WG on Youth Affairs Macedonia

CEI Working Groups SystemCEI Working Groups System


CECCICECCI

Central European Chamber of Commerce Initiative

CECCI ObjectivesCECCI Objectives

• Interface between Public Authorities and businessmen to promote effective transnationalcooperation.

• Administrative and legislative simplification of the context in which businessmen operate.

• Diffusion of the most advanced technologies and information technologies.

• Improving in particular SME’s access to research and innovation.

• Improving SME’s access to loans and risk capital financing.


Financing Financing CEI CoCEI Co--operationoperation

Projects Funded by the CEI (1)Projects Funded by the CEI (1)

Investment Projects with IFIs(Total project cost >EUR 15m, CEI Funding apx. EUR 100,000-500,000)

• E.g. Wholesale Markets, Sarajevo Airport,Albania Micro-financing, Transport Corridor VIII, Romanian Railways

Development Programmes(CEI Funding apx. EUR 500,000)

• E.g. Business Advisory Services, Commercial Law Training


Financing Financing CEI CoCEI Co--operationoperation

Projects Funded by the CEI (2)Projects Funded by the CEI (2)

Co-operation activities / International events (Total project cost approx. EUR 50,000, CEI Funding approx. EUR 5,000-25,000)

• E.g. Innovation Centre in the Gomel Region, SzegedTrainingProgramme, Conference on Tourism, Port Planning, PPP for Transport Projects

KEP (know-How Exchange Programme)

(in progress). E.g. training for Structural Funds

Projects for Match-making(Several project ideas and proposals in the above categories. CEI support is used for promotion, database maintenance, publications, Internet)


ProgrammesProgrammes

CEI Enterprise

Programme

CEI Enterprise ProgrammeCEI Enterprise Programme

• The CEI Business Advisory Service (BAS) supports micro and SM enterprises to improve their quality and competitiveness while increasing the capacity and competence of the local business consultancy industry. Each CEI BAS office in a CEI country (at present: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia) has a budget to provide grants to enterprises that use mainly local consultants.

• The CEI TurnAround Management Programme aims to strengthen the commercial and management capacity of potentially viable enterprises, including those that are newly or nearly privatised. TAM screens the enterprises to select those with the potential to be competitive in market economies (2 TAM projects in each of the following locations: Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Ukraine).


5433,259,30818,780,87115,521,5632,977GRAND TOTAL

845,532240,000194,46841Montenegro

1485,043509,000423,95783Macedonia

41244,527817,810573,283107Bulgaria

1696,151693,200597,049127Bosnia-Herzegovina

21123,0311,142,3451,019,314154Slovenia

32193,6851,148,799955,114143Croatia

Approx.ProjectsBalance

Total Granted by Donors

Total Contracted

No. of Projects

CEI Member Countries


BASBASProject Project TypeType

2,977 2,977 ProjectsProjects

Other4%

To Introduce Quality

Management & Certification

22%

To Reduce Costs16%

To Improve Management Effectiveness

28%

To Improve Market

Performance30%


J AP AN 5 ,2 6 8

S W IT ZE RLAND 3 ,0 4 5CE I 3 ,5 8 9

G E RMANY 14 0NO RW AY 7 5

DE NMARK 4 0

AUS T RIA 5 6 5F INLAND 3 18

S P E CIAL F UNDS 6 1

B T AF 11,14 0

E U 9 ,6 7 5

UK 1,0 0 6

S W E DE N 6 2 6

LUXE MB O URG 2 0 0

BASBAS

Total Total Funding Funding € 36.5 € 36.5 MillionMillion


CEI CEI NetworkNetwork

The Economic Dimension of the CEI The Economic Dimension of the CEI --CEI NetworkCEI Network

IntOrg

Gov Gov

Tech Org

Tech Org

Co CoCo

Fi

Fi

Co-operating Organisations:

•Gov: Government Departments

•Fi: Financial Institutions

•Int Org: International Organisations

•Co: Private Sector Companies

•Tech Org: Technology Organisation/ Institutes/ Universities


Initiatives and InstrumentsCEI Package CEI Package for SMEs and for SMEs and local local economic economic developmentdevelopment

• CEI Summit Economic Forum • Co-operation CEI- LEED• CEI BAS TAM programme • CEI Investment Facilitation Programme• KEP (transfer of know-how)• Co-operation CEI- Investment Compact - OECD (Stability

Pact framework)• Technical co-operation for EBRD SME programmes

(including credit lines and export facilitation)• Co-operation with Italian bilateral funds (Law 212, 84)• Women Entrepreneurship• Euro-regions and co-operation with local authorities• Match-Making system and CEI Project Opportunity

Methodology (database, Investiguide)• CECCI action programme for SMEs• CEI support to free zone development and industrial

outsourcing


Contacts Contacts Marta Simonetti

Political Analyst, Office of Chief Economist and Secretariat for CEI Projects

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

One Exchange Square - London EC2A 2JN

Tel: +44(0)20 73387259 – Fax: +44(0)2073386110

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