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ICF International seeks an Associate Director to support our Global Economic Strategy line of business. This position is based in ICF's San Francisco office and reports to the Senior Vice President of GES.

10-11 July 2008, University of Deusto, San Sebastian, Spain
Hosted by Orkestra-Basque Institute of Kompetitiveness and Development and the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism of the Basque Country Government, in collaboration with TCI-The Competitiveness Institute, the event will bring together a range of government experts working on the fields of competitiveness benchmarking and competitiveness policy to exchange experiences and generate ideas.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 14-16 April 2008
Two hundred participants from more than 30 countries will meet at the first Pan African Competitiveness Forum (PACF) in Addis Ababa. PACF will be launched as a new continent-wide competence and action center on innovation and cluster based competitiveness initiatives in Africa. PACF will support stakeholders from business, knowledge institutions and government to respond more effectively to the unique challenges and opportunities that Africa is facing in the global competition. The conference is organized by the African Union (AU), the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and TCI-The Competitiveness Institute
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Developing Desert Directions: Rethinking the Future
Alice Springs-Australia, 4–7 November 2008

The Desert Knowledge Symposium is a forum to exchange ideas for the greater use of desert knowledge for sustainable growth. Desert Knowledge Australia, the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre and the Desert Peoples Centre joined to host this 2008 Symposium and Business Showcase

Warsaw-Poland, 22-23 April 2008
INNO-LEARNING PLATFORM - A targeted action to support trans-national policy learning and policy cooperation on Innovation.
The event is organised by the European Commission, DG ENTR, under the framework of the INNO-Learning Platform initiative, in cooperation with the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development (PAED), the Mazowieckie Region and the Ministry of Economy of Poland.

This is the final report on the Baltic Metropolises Innovation Strategy Project (BaltMet Inno), a joint innovation project
of the capital cities in the Baltic Sea Region. The project aims at strengthening the role of cities as developers of innovation environments at local, regional, national and international levels.

This study contains the outline and analysis of several Cluster Initiatives in the field of Photonics and higlights the commonalities and contrasts between photonics clusters developing and being developed in the United States, Great Britain and Germany.

Clusterland OÖ GmbH
Linz, Austria. 17-19 June, 2008
How to build up and manage successfully cluster-initiatives – based on 10 years experience in Upper Austria.

Debrecen, Hungary. 24 April 2008
The main aim of the conference is to promote the advantages of intercompany cooperation within the industry. Organized by the IT Cluster of Észak-alföldi Region, the conference is entirely practical oriented, supplying the participants with real life examples of successful and unsuccessful cluster and partner initiatives.

The OECD, Centre for Entrepreneurship, is offering a special advance offer for the forthcoming publication "Clusters, Innovation and Entrepreneurship". Scheduled release date: June 2008