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1 Clusters 4 Kenn Morris
1 Clusters 4 Kenn Morris
1 Clusters 4 Kenn Morris
Introduction
Kenn Morris
California-based crossborder market research and strategic consulting firm specializing in border business and policy
Former Director of UCSD San Diego Dialogues Crossborder Innovation & Competitiveness Initiative Lead researcher and lead author of Borderless Innovation report
Overview of Comments
Borderless Innovation & Crossborder Technology Clusters in San DiegoBaja California Lessons for Crossborder Technology Clusters in US-Mexico Border Growing New Crossborder Cluster in Life Sciences
Borderless Innovation
www.SanDiegoDialogue.org/borderless.htm
San Diego & Baja California: region of innovation, R&D, technology manufacturing Given economic & social linkages, felt that a latent opportunity to catalyze regional synergies was possible
Crossborder Innovation & Competitiveness Initiative: identify clusters of opportunity in high value-added sectors in the binational region Focus on selected technology intensive clusters: biomedical devices, aerospace & defense, software, biotech, and others
Biomedical Devices
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
BC has highest concentration of aerospace companies in Mexico Knew that San Diego was regrowing cluster after major declines in 1990s
Surveyed large regional universities More Borderless technology graduates than known:
A PerspectiveChanging Result
Most of San Diegos software industry leaders assumed very few software graduates in Baja California Very surprised that UABC graduated more individuals with software degrees than UCSD
Large number of existing and emerging regions of technology & innovation across globe Next two decades: China & India. After that?
Biomedical devices: Over 53,000 employed in CA Aerospace (Southern California) Automotive Software Semiconductors
With good data: potential for 4 State Aerospace Strategy and Marketing
Silicon Border Technology park in Mexicali, goal of 12 semiconductor fabrication facilities If successfulpotential synergy with technology industries in all US-Mexico border states
Nuevo Leon Guanajuato Jalisco Morelos Plus: Baja CA Doctoral and Masters degree graduates Existing facilities & linkages to US-biotech industry
Why these?
Excellent research, some facilities are world class, some have incubator and contract research space Science is world class, but small number of highly capable scientists
Increasing number of SNI researchers in key states Emerging risk capital in some regions (not all) Need to communicate better what resources they have (Google Metric) Butlittle experience with commercializing innovationsand
california biotechnology india biotechnology "san diego" biotechnology mexico biotechnology monterrey biotechnology guadalajara biotechnology "baja california" biotechnology "nuevo leon" biotechnology
Future cluster growth will require incentives and growing culture of innovation Large part of this relates to new innovations and patents
400 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
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 to promote a new binational vision of clusters and economic development Opportunity to catalyze technology clusters and competitiveness if we choose path of Borderless Innovation
Borderless Innovation
Thank You Gracias
Kenn Morris
kenn@crossborderbusiness.com
CrossborderBusiness.com
Copies of Borderless Innovation report:
www.sandiegodialogue.org