Draft concept of development of shipbuilding cluster in St. Petersburg

Direction:: Spatial Development
Subdirection:: Clusters & Cluster Policy
Stage:: Completed project
Type:: Development
Date:: 2011-2012

Customer: St. Petersburg’s Committee for Economic Development, Industrial Policy and Trade

Project aim: to form a modern competitive shipbuilding cluster in St. Petersburg and to create a basis for further strengthening of the concentration of shipbuilding companies and related industrial enterprises in the city.

Project goals:

To conduct marketing analysis of the target market segments of the shipbuilding cluster.
To examine the current state of St. Petersburg shipbuilding sector, to review the existing structure of the sector.
To analyze compliance of recruitment needs of St. Petersburg shipbuilding sector with capacity of the vocational education system in St. Petersburg to train the necessary personnel for the sector.
To analyze potential of the city to accommodate new industries in accordance with current plans to create a new shipbuilding complex in the south-western part of the island of Kotlin,
To identify goals and objectives of creation and development of the shipbuilding cluster.
To identify the structure of the cluster.
To identify the system of the cluster management .
To develop indicators to measure effects of creation and development of shipbuilding cluster in St. Petersburg.
To develop the action plan to ensure achievement of goals stated by the cluster participants and St. Petersburg government.