Successful local milieux and the Lisbon process
Good practice case study
Innovation and Enterprise Centre for Medical Technology and the Pharmaceutical Industry, Erlangen, Germany
The Erlangen medical cluster is an initiative of the Bavarian government to encourage entrepreneurship in the medical and pharmaceutical sectors by providing supporting infrastructure. Its key success has been the arrival of more than 20 international companies in the area, creating over 150 jobs in the last two years.
The Erlangen case produces another variant for local employment development in that it introduces a stronger role for the major corporate enterprises alongside the public authorities as joint creators of knowledge clusters. Part of the attraction for Erlangen – in addition to the University – is the presence of the key trans-national enterprises in the medical field. These both serve to attract the best-qualified workers in the field and have a continuing need themselves to remain attractive to such workers.
Case study
Innovation and Enterprise Centre for Medical Technology and the Pharmaceutical Industry [pdf, en, 14kb]
Further information
Medical Valley Observer: Medizin-Pharma-Gesundheit aus der Region Nürnberg
