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Monday & Tuesday 7.-8.10.02
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Show case tours
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Wednesday 9.10.02
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Pre-conference introductory workshop
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Plenary
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Conference Opening
- Ifor Ffowcs-Williams, President TCI and CEO, Cluster Navigators Ltd, New Zealand
- Welcome - Hon Antonio Subira, Chairman, TCI Board of Advisors and Minister for Industry, Catalonia, Spain
- Hon. Tom Barton, Minister for State & Regional Development Queensland:
Competing and Collaborating in the Asia Pacific Region and Beyond - a Queensland perspective
- Prof Tea Petrin, Minister of the Economy of the Republic of Slovenia:
The merits of a cluster based approach: the Slovenian experience
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Plenary
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Perspectives of the International Organisations
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- Mr Frederic Richard, UN Industrial Development Organisation, Vienna:
The UNIDO Scoreboard - providing signposts for industrial development
- Mr Werner Corrales, Special Advisor to UNCTAD Secretary General, former Minister of Development of Venezuela
Competitiveness and sustainable development
- Professor Phillip Cooke, University of Wales:
Bio/health science clusters - opportunities for information exchange and doing business across clusters
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Cairns Regional Gallery
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Welcome reception
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Thursday 10.10.02 Plenary
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Cluster and Innovation
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- Mr Neil Mackay, CEO, Industry New Zealand:
New Zealand's Cluster Program - A Framework for Internationalisation and Innovation
- Mr George Schoenhofer, Industry Canada, Ottawa
Canada's Innovation Policy framework & Technology Clusters
- Mr Michael O'Neill, SABV 2010, Adelaide
The Cluster is the Innovation System
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Plenary
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Cross Cluster Collaboration
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- Rodin Genoff, Playford City Council, South Australia:
Devolution, clusters & manufacturing prosperity
- Prof Allan Carrie, University of Strathclyde, Scotland:
Clusters affect the way businesses operate
- Mr. Paul Fennelly, Department of State & Regional Development, Queensland:
Vibrant Regions and the Facilitation of Clusters in Queensland
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Morning sessions
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Key issues (parallel sessions)
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New Country Horizons
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- Guillermo Monroy, Guatemala - A Central American perspective
- Prof Brian Roberts, University of Canberra - Ho Chi Minh City - case study
- Mr. Rashad Bibars & Mr. Ahmad Ahar, Ministry of Planning, Jordan - What Jordan is doing in the clustering field
-Alexei Prazdnichnych, Bauman Technical University, Moscow Clustering Concepts: developing the theory and practice in Russia
- Mr. Ulrich Ernst, Development Alternatives Inc. - Cluster-based initiatives in Ukraine
- Mr. Nikhil Treebhoohun, Productivity Council, Mauritius - Cluster agendas in Mauritius
- Prof L. Shridharan, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad, India - Promoting Industrial Clusters: need for policy initiatives
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Research & Analysis
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- Mr Paul Frater, Industry New Zealand - Measuring and understanding clusters and regional innovation systems
- Prof Julian Lowe, Ballarat University, Australia - TBA
Brian Catts, University of Arizona, Director Industry Cluster, Project Development - TBA
- Ms. Joan Armitage, Dept. Of Transport & Regional Services, Canberra - Evaluating and benchmarking regions
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Addressing Market Failure
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- Dr Alan Jones, Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources, Canberra - Clusters and market failure in the small business sector
- Alfredo Lopes Neto, Fortaleza Ceara, Brazil - The pluses and minuses of cluster development in Brazil
- Dr Cristina Martinez, University of Western Sydney - Knowledge hubs in Australia and their impact on economic growth
- Ms. Indira Singh, Canada (paper to be delivered by Mr. George Schoenhofer) - Roles played by the public sector institutions (federal and state), specialized research centres and educational institutions in cluster development
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Afternoon sessions
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Industry Cluster (parallel sessions)
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Biotechnology/Medical
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- Ken Snowden, Scottish Enterprise
- Mr. Emiliano Duch, Competitiveness, Spain - Building up a biotechnology cluster from scratch: Worcester, Mass.
- Dr Lyndal Thorburn, Advance Consulting and Evaluation Pty Ltd, Canberra - Wheels within wheels: patterns of biotechnology clusters and opportunities for government support
- Dr. Joe Baker, Queensland - Biotech - a 7,000 year history
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Information Technology & Communications
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- Ms Margaret Ryan, Office of Western Sydney - Accelerating growth, enhancing capability, creating a regional innovation system: The Western Sydney IT Cluster
- Nigel Gwynne-Williams, Western Cape Government, South Africa - The CITI experience in IT cluster development (incl. the role of regional government)
- Ms. Elisabet Juan, CEO of Competitiveness NetSolutions, Barcelona - The IT cluster for clusters
- Ms. Trish Brimblecombe, Innovation & Systems Ltd, New Zealand - TBA
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Tourism
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- Mr Rudolf M Buitelaar, Unidad de Industria y Tecnología, Santiago, Chile - Eco-tourism clusters in South America
- Cam Charlton, Chairman Tourism Tropical North Queensland - From Strength to Strength - The Tropical North Queensland Experience
- Mr. Bjarne Jensen, Oxford Research, Denmark - The tourism cluster in the Øresund region - mobilising across regions and countries
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Forestry And Fishing
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- Mr Ron Dragt, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
- Mr Bruce Connolly, Nexus Consulting, Victoria, Australia - From net work to industry cluster, best practices in the Bush
- Mr. Robin Owen, Robin Owen & Associates, Candelo NSW - The Australian native cypress and ironbark industry in NSW
- Mr Darren Cleland, Ecofish, Seafood & Marine Cluster of TNQ (CREDC) - A Sustainable Fishing Industry on the Great Barrier Reef
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Double Island Resort
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Conference Dinner
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Friday 11.10.02
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Final day
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Morning sessions
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Industry Clusters (parallel)
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Environment/Water/Energy
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- Mr Lluis Ramis, Competitiveness, Barcelona (Spain) - Development and environment in the Pyrenees
- Mr Hugh Forde, South Australia Business Vision 2010 - The SA Water Alliance - outcomes through relationship skills
- Dr. Joe Baker, Queensland & Commissioner for the Environment, ACT - Regional clustering for environmental reporting and sustainable development
- Mr. Tom Lindsey, Lindsey & Associates, Warrnambool, Victoria - Environmental sustainability - opportunities for collaboration via clusters
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Photonics/Optics
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- Mr Angus M Robinson, CEO, Australian Electrical and Electronics Manufactures Association - Australian Electronics/Photonics Industry Clusters Mapping
- Ms Janice Burnie, Welsh Development Agency
- Mr Bob Breault, Tucson, Arizona - The clumping of Optics/Photonics clusters in SE Asia
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Engineering-based (Ships, Metal-working, autos)
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- Mr David Dodd, Louisiana, USA - Strengthening precision manufacturing clusters through supplier networks - a case study
- Mr Peter Morris, Telesis, Perth, Western Australia
- Mr Ray Pincombe, City of Playford, South Australia - Northern Adelaide: enhancing an engineering cluster through infrastructure upgrades
- Mr Emiliano Duch, Competitiveness, Barcelona, Spain - The French/Swedish Truck Cluster
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Food/Wine
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- Mr Arvin Jelliss, Agriculture and Agri-food Canada, Ottawa - Role of food, beverage and life science clusters in enhancing Canadian performance in USA and other export markets
- Dr Alec Hansen, Economic Competitiveness Group, San Francisco, California USA - Leveraging civic entrepreneurs
- Dr Susan Nelle, CEO, Food South Australia - National Food Industry Strategy: working across state boundaries to achieve export objectives
- Dr Julian Webb, CEO, Canberra Region Economic & Employment Development Association - Kitchen Incubators: their role in cluster development
- Ms Nola Craig, Australian Tropical Foods (CREDC) - Paddock to Plate - the Food Trail of Tropical North Queensland
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Arts/Culture
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- Ms Paquita Lamacraft, Louisiana - Beyond the horizon: taking existing projects from stand-alone to cluster inclusion
- Ms Teressa Crea, Deoppio Teatro Inc, Adelaide - TBA
- Dr Scott Fredrickson, MusiBiz Program, Loyola University, New Orleans ... and all that jazz: creating a music cluster in New Orleans
- Ms Eve Stafford, Arts Nexus TNQ - Arts Nexus - The One Stop Culture Shop
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Plenary
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TCI Review
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- Review of progress & issues arising (Ifor Ffowcs Williams)
- Reports from from Vice-Presidents of TCI Chapters: Europe (Emiliano Duch), Americas (Bob Breault) and Asia Pacific (Rod Brown)
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Annual General Assembly of TCI
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Plenary
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The Art & Science of Cluster Facilitation
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- Mr Don Di Salle, National Research Council, Canada - The practical aspects of building a cluster, with IT and life sciences as examples
- Ms Lilia Infelise, President, Applied Research into Training and Education Systems, Italy - The Artes Alliance Model: opportunities for collaboration
- Mr John Dean, Community & Economic Development, Brisbane City Council, Queensland - TBA
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Plenary
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Final Wrap
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- Professor Michael Porter, Harvard University USA - A discussion with Mr. Emiliano Duch (pre-recorded)
- Conference Review - presentation by Alec Hansen and Rod Brown
- Communique - finalisation of Conference Communique
- TCI 2003 - presentation by hosts for next year's conference, to be held in Europe
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