Project description

Fostering cross-border collaboration on an international scale in innovative micro- and nanoelectronics between the European leading clusters and the world players covering a wide scale of cross-sectoral applications.

Silicon Saxony (DE), Minalogic (FR), DSP Valley (BE), High Tech NL (NL), CORALLIA mi-Cluster (EL) and  Fondazione Distretto Green & High Tech Monza Brianza (IT) are cooperating to implement the internationalization strategy for third countries as developed within the Silicon Europe project, funded under FP7/Regions of Knowledge.

The Silicon Europe Worldwide partners represent more than 1000 institutes and companies of which 80% are SMEs. Due to the Silicon Europe Worldwide partners’ experience and expertise with their facilitating role as cluster, they are best positioned to increase the international cooperation and business opportunities for the European SMEs and companies involved in micro- and nanoelectronics technology and applications.

The activities of the project focus on three objectives:

1. Support electronics companies, and more in particular, SMEs, to be present in foreign markets either for business or partnerships.
2. Attract foreign investment money or actors missing in Europe´s value chain.
3. Promote the European electronics industry worldwide.

In order to realize these objectives, the cluster partnership will implement and further develop relationships with selected regions outside Europe. The relationship building will be done with one region at a time. Within the Silicon Europe project, a thorough analysis of regions outside Europe has been made. Based on this analysis, Taiwan and North East USA have been selected as the first two regions to focus on. At least one more region will be selected during the project.