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Barcelona, 7 February 2008
The Urban Cluster Day in Barcelona is coming to its second edition. The very successful first conference in 2007 is promising an interesting repetition this year. 22@ is a close partner of TCI in Barcelona.

Within the framework of cooperation of TCI as international consultative institution in the Euro-Latin American Forum, some members of TCI had the opportunity to participate in the 2007 Forum Conference that took place on October 24-26 in Turin (Italy), where more than 250 participants from 14 countries gathered to share ideas and promote regional development in their regions.
En el marco de colaboracion de TCI como institucion consultiva internacional del Forum Euro-Latinoamericano, representantes de TCI tuvieron la oportunidad de participar en la Conferencia 2007 del Forum que tuvo lugar del 24 al 26 de Octubre en Torino-Italia y donde mas de 250 participantes de 14 paises se reunieron para compartir ideas innovadoras y fomentar el desarrollo regional en sus regiones.

The SEZ organizes the European Innovation and Cluster Conference on Tuesday, 11th of December 2007 in Stuttgart, Germany. The conference aims at regional and European innovation and technology transfer decision makers and stakeholders.

Another conference comes to its end and again it was a great opportunity to meet old friends, get new connection and learn from each other. As always there will be positive and negative feedback from the participants, but sure we will remember this as a special conference.

The Innovation Journalism Program at Stanford University will get more Finnish fellows for next five years. Helsingin Sanomat Foundation and Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, have agreed to pay the necessary fees, travel expenses and living costs for three Finnish Innovation journalism fellows per year for six months, starting February 2008. The total sum of money invested for five years is approximately 700.000 euros.

A conference for creative clusters is taking place on November 9th-14th in creative districts across London, each of them dense concentrations of creative enterprise and cultural activity like the South Bank, the City Fringe, Soho/West End and the Exhibition Road.A full list of speakers is available at their website.

As part of the celebration of the Carl Linnaeus 300 year anniversary The Competitiveness Institute - TCI has been co-organizer of the Pan-African Innovation and Cluster Competitiveness Symposium in Cape Town, September 17-18. The aim was to enhance the efficiency of social economic activities financed by aid organizations, with business on commercial conditions. At the symposium representatives from 10 African countries as well as the African Union attended and discussed actions needed encourage new initiatives on cluster initiatives for poverty reduction and regional developments.

The European Cluster Observatory - a new platform for information on and analysis of clusters, cluster organisations and cluster policies in Europe, produced by the Center for Strategy and Competitiveness at the Stockholm School of Economics (www.sse.edu/csc), has been launched.

The Aquatic Products Cluster was created in 1999 with the aim to gather professionals of the seafood and aquaculture sectors and of the scientific and economic communities.

The purpose of this study is to contribute to increasing people's awareness of the production sector in Catalonia and the factors that can help us understand the different behaviour observed.