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This project on clusters was carried out with the help of 13 EU Member States, eleven candidate countries and two EFTA/EEA countries

On January 17th, Oman signed a long-term agreement with an United Arab Emirates based business group to set up the nation’s first iron and steel plant. The agreement marks a new era of industrial growth and the start of a metal cluster in Sohar, north west of Oman's capital Muscat. The UAE business group will set up one of the most modern iron and steel plants in a project totalling 750 million USD.

PAC, the Andean Competitiveness Program has launched its new website http://www.caf.com/pac. It contains some of the latest news, success stories and interviews on competitiveness issues of the five Andean countries: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.

L'Università Cattolica di Milano nell'ambito dei progetti finanziati dal FSE, ha organizzato un corso intitolato "Le politiche innovative per lo svilupppo dei distretti", diretto da Mario Molteni. Nell'iniziativa sono coinvolti distretti industriali dell'America latina, in particolare Argentina, Brasile, Cile, Uruguay, Perù. Una delle finalità del programma è quello di creare collaborazioni tra distretti italiani e latinoamericani. Al progetto sta collaborando anche la Promos. Il Club collabora e patrocina l'iniziativa e il Presidente Paolo Terribile e/o il Segretario Italo Candoni parteciperanno all'inaugurazione del corso prevista per il giorno 24 febbraio a Milano.

US state South Carolina takes baby steps towards a stronger economy. That was the message of a speech given by Wall Street financier Darla Moore during the University of South Carolina's annual Economic Outlook Conference. More than 200 people attended this conference.

Ministers from Laos, Viet Nam, Cambodia and Thailand met during the 11th Mekong River Committee conference in Vientiane (Laos) December 7 - 8, 2004 to discuss regional development.

Representatives of the public sector, universities and companies have started an initiative to make Dublin a centre for wireless technology. This Dublin Wireless Cluster Initiative's expert group includes CEOs, consultants and professors.

Piero Formica, member of TCI Board of Advisors and currently Head of the Centre of Entrepreneurship at the Higher College of Technology in Abu Dhabi (UAE) and Marie Curie Professor of Knowledge Economy and Entrepreneurship and the University of Tartu (Estonia) has recently published a essay on Knowledge Economy.

Two special Lifetime Achievement Awards were presented in Ottawa to important personalities in the field of economic development for their contributions to the foundations of cluster based economic growth.

The Textile Committee of the Ministry of Textiles of the Indian government has brought in senior expertise from the Netherlands. The Committee signed an agreement with the Netherlands Management Cooperation Programme (NMCP), an organisation that offers the expertise of senior managers.