“Quicklook” Assessment of Greater Adelaide's Assets & Challenges ...

chamber of commerce set up BV2010. Also known as the cluster project. Forget about
government and perceptions and figure out how to get people together. Clusters are a
way to get businesses together to collaborate. Globalization issues have driven the need
to have localization clusters used to facilitate this growth. (See color handout on Industry
Cluster Development).
• Can’t compete without understanding what collaboration really means
• Process has taken 5 years to development and is now ready for kick-off.
• While they are a very close-knit community and it is very hard to get into it, this is
now being shattered because in order to survive companies have to collaborate.
• OECD has been working on a similar project.
• If we look at health and aging: there are many pilot projects in terms of health –
these have become nice models for examples of successful approaches.
• How can we build systems and communities that address aging and the aging
processes (e.g. of collaborative effort)? Perhaps this is where the commercial
opportunity is.
• (Handout) BV2010 on Healthy Ageing and also handout “Healthy Ageing” –
Agenda item 5.
• SA has historically had a low birth rate. Why?
• Do we have more old people – need to answer the questions. Hugh has figures
(?)
• Professor dick bandy might have figures for migration rates
• Have to mobilize people and engage with them.
• We don’t all know what each other are doing. Cluster engages leaders and
working through opportunities.
• They are starting to recognize that they have something that the world can use.
Moving away from government-sponsored activities and into company
collaboration.
• We need to be confident community that can identify what we can do and how we
can do it.
• Confidence level is growing when compared to 3 years ago. “As trust grows (by
BV doing profiling of businesses) so will performance
• Want the cluster project to be export –oriented.
• They think that this clustering process will help develop new start-ups because
this is the ‘thrust that we can pull behind us’ for product development.
• Health infrastructure is in place and is ‘mature’. They need to figure out what edge
there is to lead from.
• Some discussion about ‘where the dollars are’… on the bubble chart of industry
sector: cluster strategic analysis – HEALTH is not on there. Hugh explains that
they are looking at where BV2010 can concentrate their resources. If they can’t
add value, it isn’t on there. Hugh is saying that this is on the colored racetrack
chart (dated march 16) GLARING GAP
• For example, what has been done in the wine industry? The entrepreneurs are
providing the ‘spark’.
Mr. Stephen Dippy: Clustering has been proving itself to be valuable to the defense
industry.
• Background – been in business for 12 yrs on financial side and 8 yrs on clinical
side. MCA = Medical Communications Associates;
o MCA, Health informatics cluster: system to inform doctors in helping to
get information about the patient’s health.
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