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Our Board of Advisors is composed by relevant personalities from the world of politics, business, and international institutions that have played an important role in the application of cluster initiatives. The members therefore dispose all of important experience in the field of clusters and can give valuable advice to our Association.

TCI is supported by a number of organizational members. These are mainly non-profit organizations, government agencies, or multilateral organizations dedicated to fostering economic development and interested in clusters, innovation systems and competitiveness issues. Here you can read who they are and what they do.

TCI is the leading global network for practitioners, policy makers, researchers and business leaders working towards improving competitiveness in regions and clusters. TCI is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, with a global scope, open to members from all countries throughout the private, public and voluntary sector. Our member base currently consists of 800 leading practitioners from more than 65 countries. TCI is financed through annual membership fees.

The Nominating Committee invites nominations for the TCI Board of Directors. The Board will be elected by the General Assembly in Cape Town, on 31 October 2008.
DEADLINE for proposals: 20 August 2008

Members of TCI can use TCI's corporate style material, such as logos and brochures.

The difficulty in finding capable facilitators for cluster development initiatives has been pointed out on numerous occasions, particularly at the First International Workshop for Cluster Practitioners organized by the World Bank in Chihuahua (Mexico) in November 1997.