Clusters Meet Regions Cluj Napoca 2025

1–2 Jul 2025 | Cluj Napoca, Romania

Joaquim Solana Monleón

Cluster manager

AMBIT - Living spaces cluster

Barcelona, Spain

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Open to explore innovation in materials, AI, co-creation , consumer trends, Industry 4.0, applied to spaces design and creative industries.

My organisation

Over 250 companies of the interiors Spanish ecosystem are members of the cluster. They represent the entire value chain: from producers of raw and semi-finished materials, to manufacturers of interiors products (furniture, floor and wall tiles, lighting, home textiles, home automation, etc.) and contract and retail distributors. Furthermore, our ecosystem includes knowledge providers, such as technology-based companies, universities and technology centers. We help interior companies in their strategic transformation through 3 types of activities: marketing, innovation and talent. We have participated in 38 European Commision projects in several programmes as Eramus+, COSME and Horizon. Innovation projects: www.ambitcluster.org/en/area-of-innovation/projects Training projects: www.ambitcluster.org/en/training-area/projects Over 100 activities per year: www.ambitcluster.org/next-activities Some of our hlghlighted projects are: Hospitality event: www.interhotel.com Permanent showrooms: www.wecontract.com, www.docontract.com Contract platform: www.hicontract.com trendsCLUB: www.ambitcluster.org/trendsclub interiors living lab: www.ambitcluster.org/livinglab shared value: www.furncsr.eu skill needs detection (digital+circular): www.circularfurniture-sawyer.eu
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About me

Agricultural Engineer (UPV), Executive MBA (ESADE). He has extensive experience in innovation management at technology centers and universities. He has also served as a cluster manager at AMBIT for 19 years. At AMBIT, he has been responsible for more than 40 innovation projects (EC, Spain, Catalonia) and has promoted collaborative projects between companies with extensive experience and participation: interihotel, hicontract, wecontract, trendsCLUB, and more.

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Skills

  • innovation projects
  • thinking out of the box
  • co-creation

Speaker sessions (1)

Wednesday, 2 July 2025

09:30 - 11:00

S3 Partnership: Boosting Innovation in Design & Furniture

Location:Furniture Excellence Center

Debate on interregional collaboration in the wood & furniture sector. Good practice examples. Moderated discussion towards the creation of a S3 partnership