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Legal entity and objectives

The Competitiveness Institute is a non-profit organization, created by a group of economic development professionals and cluster practitioners with the principal aim of collecting and exchanging information and best practices on cluster development initiatives worldwide.

The Competitiveness Institute's mission is:
"To improve living standards and local competitiveness of regions across the world by enhancing cluster-based competitiveness and development initiatives"

Main objectives

The Competitiveness Institute's main objectives are:

• To promote cluster-based competitiveness and development strategies.
• To promote methodologies for enhancing the competitiveness of clusters.
• To raise the professional level of cluster development practitioners.

You can download here the Statutes of The Competitiveness Institute in English.