Network Development

Building Networks for Export Action

Would you like to bid for international business, but don’t feel your business alone has the capacity to meet all the requirements and be successful?

ICN can assist with network development, facilitating joint ventures or building industry clusters.

You may not feel your business has the capability to find international success alone, but are wary of the many challenges and risks presented when developing a network of companies. ICN’s experience in this area makes the process manageable and low-risk, increasing your chance of success and allowing you to focus on the business opportunities as they develop.

ICN’s experience in this field includes:

• Assisting local companies access opportunities with major projects
  

• Creating networks in overseas markets for activities following ICN-led trade delegations
  

• The formation of industry clusters of local companies set up operations in export destinations
  

Facilitating Cluster Emergence (FCE) Program

The FCE Program assists Victorian businesses that have formed a cluster succeed in matching their capabilities to offshore opportunities.

FCE is designed specifically to match the needs of project-driven cluster emergence. It includes two components:

• The cluster emergence component; the primary aim of this component is to assist a group of companies capable of responding to a defined opportunity come together and to facilitate this group’s evolution; and

• The train-the-facilitator component; this component’s objective is to provide the nascent cluster’s facilitator with the skills and resources needed guide the evolution of the group.

The program has a strong focus on clusters developing robust and appropriate governance arrangements.

To find out more about consortia and cluster development including the FCE program please contact ICN Melbourne Program Manager Dave Pallant on (03) 8689 2530 or email dpallant@icnvic.org.au

This is a fee-for-service offering.