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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.

Five Bulgarian companies expressed their interest in becoming part of the automobile cluster in the Austrian province Styria (AC Styria). This became clear during a bilateral business forum held November 9.

Kazakhstani president Nursultan Nazarbayev recently visited the Yutex textile mill, one of the companies set up to develop a textile cluster in southern Kazakhstan.

StartUp Jerusalem, an organisation that aims at creating an economic future for Jerusalem, launched a comprehensive plan for transforming the city into a major international center for industry in the health and life sciences.