Latest news

TCI is supported by a number of organizational members. These are mainly non-profit organizations, government agencies, or multilateral organizations dedicated to fostering economic development and interested in clusters, innovation systems and competitiveness issues. Here you can read who they are and what they do.

Taking advantage of the “5th Eastern African Regional Conference on Innovation Systems and Innovative Clusters in Africa” celebrated in Maputo, Mozambique on August 25-27th and building on the momentum created in Addis Ababa - the 1st Pan African Competitiveness Forum (PACF) - the PACF Executive and Advisory Boards held their second Advisory Board Meetings on August 28-29.

20-21 October 2008, Leipzig, Central Germany
The Industrial Initiative for Central Germany, with the support of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) together with TCI Network is organizing a German Cluster Conference for 20-21 October 2008 in Leipzig. This conference will be a warm-up for the 12th TCI Annual Global Conference 2009, that will also take place in Leipzig.

Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2008.
TCI is in the process of selecting candidate institutions or organizations to host the 4CLAC - 4th TCI Latin American Cluster Conference, the 2009 Regional Latin American Conference of TCI. The 4CLAC will support the reinforcement of TCI network in Latin America by promoting closer ties among cluster practitioners in the region as well as by facilitating an open exchange of experiences, results and methodologies.

"CLUSTERS: Meeting the challenge of globalisation"
Cape Town, South Africa. 29-31 October 2008
Don’t miss this great opportunity to join us at TCI 2008 and hear first-hand the leading thinkers in competitiveness, clusters and regional economic development. We have already over 70 speakers from 23 countries participating including many well known and highly respected specialists involved in clusters and economic development. See more information on the conference website TCI 2008 Annual Conference

Open project for international cluster co-operation.
Through our activity “ClusterLink” at ZENIT (Centre for Innovation and Technology) we aim at increasing competitiveness for clusters through the further development of existing cluster cooperation and the setting up of new cluster links.

TCI is the leading global network for practitioners, policy makers, researchers and business leaders working towards improving competitiveness in regions and clusters. TCI is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, with a global scope, open to members from all countries throughout the private, public and voluntary sector. Our member base currently consists of 800 leading practitioners from more than 65 countries. TCI is financed through annual membership fees.
Become a member and join TCI network!

TCI is the leading global network for practitioners, policy makers, researchers and business leaders working towards improving competitiveness in regions and clusters. TCI is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, with a global scope, open to members from all countries throughout the private, public and voluntary sector. Our member base currently consists of 800 leading practitioners from more than 65 countries. TCI is financed through annual membership fees.

The "EU-Japan Regional Cluster Forum" will take place on the December 2-3, 2008 and forms part of the "Annual Cluster Japan 2008" event. It will consist of symposia and a large exhibition of all officially supported Japanese Knowledge and Industrial Clusters.

Creative Clusters, the world's leading conference on the creative economy, is looking for contributors for their next event, which runs from 17 - 20 November 2008 in Glasgow and Edinburgh.