Designing a Strategic Plan for the Development of an Energy Sustainability Technology Cluster

Our Client & Their Goals

Our Client, a public sector industrial development authority, asked CamIn to design a strategy for the founding of a technology cluster in their region that would focus on energy sustainability. Our work would provide a full blueprint for the technology cluster’s development, including product development and commercialisation roadmaps for energy sustainability technologies developed within the cluster over the next decade. Our blueprint would also consider the manufacturing processes the site must support, the design of technology and innovation incubators, and the creation of a start-up eco-system. Finally, the cluster’s design needed to attract international and domestic companies to locate at the cluster, and facilitate international and domestic R&D collaborations that would take place within the cluster.

Our client trusted that CamIn’s expert consulting model and teams of world-class experts would be great at designing the most effective strategic plan for their technology cluster and de-risking their multi-million-dollar investment.

CamIn's Solution

CamIn’s leaders assembled a project team of twelve world-class technology and industry experts to help us design strategies and blueprints for the proposed technology cluster.

Our technology sub-team provided a complete product development roadmap for the first ten years of the cluster’s operation. Our client had conducted an initial analysis and wanted us to determine whether plastic electronics, photovoltaic cells, and solid-state lighting were promising technology areas to pursue at the cluster. Our team evaluated these target technologies, confirming that plastic electronics and solid-state lighting were the best opportunities to pursue, and considered the market opportunities for other energy sustainability technologies. Our team also identified the best innovation projects to consider for commercialisation, potential international and domestic R&D projects, and suitable partners who could support early-stage technology research and product manufacturing.

Our industry sub-team designed a full operating eco-system for the technology cluster, which considered how the manufacturing, R&D, and innovation components would interact to sustain the cluster’s internal growth. Our eco-system design also provided a blueprint detailing how relevant commercial, governmental, and academic partners would interact and facilitate continuous innovation and manufacturing of products over the next ten years. Our team also conducted a critical review to identify and confirm key stakeholders for the special purpose vehicle designed to provide the private investments required for the cluster’s development.

After the first year of the technology cluster’s development, it had created more than 50,000 jobs, most with a strong focus towards sustainability, gender equality, education and innovation-led economic development. Our Client has attracted more than five MNCs, more than 20 SMEs, and more than 25 start-ups from across the globe to locate at their cluster.

The Impact

CamIn’s analysis identified the most effective development strategy for the technology cluster. Our blueprint directed the cluster’s initial focus toward the manufacturing of solid-state lighting components, and included a roadmap for the cluster’s expansion towards plastic electronics over the next ten years. By working with CamIn and our world-class expert consulting team, our client quickly obtained a comprehensive plan for the development of this technology cluster. This plan subsequently helped them secure the multi-million-dollar funding from all relevant public and private stakeholders who contributed to the cluster’s special purpose vehicle. With our blueprint as their guide, our Client initiated work on physical cluster for manufacturing and facilitate their first set of international academic and commercial collaborations.

After the first year of the technology cluster’s development, it had created more than 50,000 jobs, most with a strong focus towards sustainability, gender equality, education and innovation-led economic development. Our Client has attracted more than five multinational corporations, more than 20 small to medium enterprises, and more than 25 start-ups from across the globe to locate at their cluster. Our Client’s work within the cluster has also facilitated more than 15 international R&D projects involving solid-state lighting and plastic electronics. More than just a regional economic success story, this technology cluster is now well on its way in becoming a global centre of excellence for solid-state lighting and plastic electronics.