Conferences and events

The Ist Pan African Competitiveness Forum (PACF) has successfully launched a new continent-wide competence and action centre for an innovation and cluster based competitiveness approach to national and regional economic development.

May 27th is not far away. It is the day when the 3rd Latin American Cluster Conference (3CLAC) will start in Chihuahua, Mexico, a region with a long tradition in regional economic development.

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.

European Academy for Taxes, Economics & Law is organizing a conference in Berlin on September 22-23 on cluster policies in European regions.

The European Academy for Taxes, Economics & Law is organizing a conference to address the problem on how to apply for European Funds. "Promoting Research and Innovation in Europe with a special focus on FP7" is the theme of this conference held in Berlin from May 26 to May 27.

You can now register to IJ-5, the Fifth Conference on Innovation Journalism, at Stanford University May 21-23 2008. The program ist still in work and an update will be published soon on their website.

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.

4th Competitiveness Forum
9-10 June, Tornio-Haparanda, Finland
TCI-The Competitiveness Institute, Kemi-Tornio University and Prodemic Consulting Group collaborate in this 4th Competitiveness Forum with focus on Creative Clusters and Crossborder Collaborations.

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.