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The Tucson conference day to day program

Monday, 28 October

Opening Ceremonies and Plenary Session 8:30 AM- 10:00 AM Name Organization Title of presentation Bob Breault Chair, TCI Conference Organizing Comittee Welcome & Introduction Mayor Bob Walkup; Deputy Mayor Rick Chiarelli City of Tucson- Ottawa, Canada Welcome & Announcement Antoni Subira Minister of Industry Catalonia, Chair, TCI Board of Advisors Welcome Emiliano Duch President, TCI;Competitiveness, Spain Conference Objectives and Structure Michael J. Enright TCI Executive Commitee, University of Hong Kong Clusters and the New Economy

Track#1 Short Course on Clusters 10:30 AM - 5:00 PM   Name Organization Title of presentation Session 1 Michael J. Enright TCI Executive Commitee, University of Hong Kong Overview of Clusters   Emiliano Duch President, TCI &Competitiveness, Spain Business Analysis for Clusters Session 2 Ifor Ffowcs-Williams   Faciliating the Development of Clusters   Bob Breault for Frederic Richard (UNIDO) Breault Research Organization, Tucson UNIDO Learning Network of Regions and Clusters Session 3 Bob Breault   Role of Private Sector in Clustering GSPED       Discussion and Question & Answer

Track#2 Service and Public Institutions 10:30 AM- 12:00 AM   Name Organization Title of presentation Session 1 Tri-National Clustering (Ottawa+Mexico+Tucson) Moderator Bob Breault Breault Research Organization, Tucson   Mayor Bob Walkup Tucson, Arizona, USA     Mayor Ricardo Bours Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, Mexico   Deputy Mayor Rick Chiarelli Ottawa, Canada     Mayor Gustavo Guerrero Culican, Sinaloa, Mexico     Mayor Francisco Burquez Hermosillo, Mexico         Questions & Answers Session 2 Current Cluster Issues Moderator Sally Fernandez Southern Arizona Industry Aerospace Association, Tucson   Dr. Peter Likins President of University of Arizona, Tucson The Role of the University in Economic Development   John Dean Cairns Region Economic Development Corporation, Australia Current Cluster Issues   Antoni Subirà Minister of Industry, Catalonia, Spain Catalonia: Ten years of Cluster Policies Session 3 Cluster Demographics Moderator Gary Marsh Yorkshire Forward, England   Robert L.Gonzales New Global Strategies The Global Demographics Transformation: Implications for Economic Development   Class van der Linde University of St.Gallen, Switzerland The Demography of Clusters -- First Findings from the Cluster Meta-Study   Brian Catts University of Arizona Mapping Arizona's Cluster Landscape

Track#3 Industry 10:30 AM- 6.00 PM   Name Organization Title of presentation Session 1 Cluster Start Up Moderator Valerie Vance-Goff Arizona Optics Industry Association, Tucson   Roger Reierson Flint Communications, North Dakota North Dakota's New Economy Initiative: State-of-the-Art Private Sector Driven Clustering Success   Rodolfo Koeppel President , Metas Institute, Brazil Constructing Clusters in Minas Gerais: The Success of the Private Sector   Ken Thompson VISION, Northern Ireland Working with Government and Business to Accelerate the Economic Development of Small&Medium Business in Northern Ireland: A Report from the Field Session 2 Cluster Networks and Initiatives Moderator Pat Patton Tucson Electric Power Company   Amjad Attar The Jordan National Competitiveness Team The Jordanian Cluster Strategy   Daniel Hallencreutz and Staffan Larsson INTERSECTA and Swedish Development Agency, NUTEK, Sweden Innovative Clusters in Sweden: Practical Lessons from Regional Cluster-building   David Dodd   From the Ground Up: Clusters in Louisiana Session 3 Accelerated and Sustainable Clustering Implementation - An Interactive Workshop for Business Leaders and Cluster Practitioners Faciliators Alan Hald Arizona Partnership on the New Economy and the Governor's Strategic Partnership for Economic Development, Phoenix   and Eric Hansen Economic Transformation Group, San Francisco     Key Implementation Topics- Role of Leadership in Cluster Implementation: How to crack to whip!; Fast-Track Clustering: Getting to action, Quickly!     Working group sessions     Report Backs     Synthesis, Output & Follow-up

Tuesday, October 30, 2001

Track#1 Academia   9:00AM- 5:30PM   Name Organization Title of presentation Session 4 Regional Cluster Growth Moderator Rod Brown Cluster Asia Pacific   Dr.Peter Vieregge Dr. Vieregge GmbH, Germany Identification and Management of Regional Clusters   Paul Frater Industry New Zealand Pressures for membership Network in Early Stages of Clusters. Some New Zealand Experiences   Boris Kozolchyk President, National LAw Center for Inter-American Trade, Tucson Legal Aspects of the International Clustering of Business Session 5 Returns on Clustering Efforts Moderator Ifor Fowcs-Williams ClusterNavigators, New Zealand   Kate Kuper World Bank, Washington DC Local Economic Development: Locating Competitiveness and Clustering in the World Bank's Agenda (A personal View)   Alison Munro Scottish Enterprise, Scotland A Review of Early Returns from Clustering Activity   Ray Lind Wellington City Council, New Zealand Evaluating the Early Returns if Clustering Activities Session 6 Cluster Implementation and Development Moderator Gary Marsh Yorkshire Forward, England   Jeff Blodgett Conneticut EconomicRessource Center Cluster by Consensus   Paquita Lamacraft Louisiana Culture Club Passionate Development: Working for their Regions   Daniel Hallencreutz and Per Lundeqvist INTERSECTA and Uppsala University, Sweden Getting Dressed for Success: Explaining SME Session 7 New Ideas in the New Economy Moderator Bob Hagen Southern Arizona Technology Council   Kathleen Zeider Arizona Department of Commerce Arizona Partnership for the New Economy   Indira Singh Ministry of Northern Development and MInes, Ontario , Canada Natural Resource Based Clusters in the New Economy: Theory and Practice   Arvind Chhatbar National Research Council, Canada Developing a Cluster-based Regional Innovation Strategy

Track#2 Service 9:00AM-3:30PM   Name Organization Title of presentation Session 4 Cluster Iniciatives Moderator Robert L. Gonzales New Global Strategies, Tucson   Alan J. Malter UNiversity of Arizona, College od Business and Public Administration , Tucson Public and Private Sector Roles in Cluster Development in Developing Countries: Case Study from Africa   Aric Rindfleisch University of Arizona, BPA New Product Innovation in the Optics Industry   Guillermo Monroy National Competitiveness Program of Guatemala Private-Sector Led Clustering in Guatemala's Tourism and Coffee Clusters Session 5 Role of Cluster Policies In Economic Development in Europe Moderator Emiliano Duch Competitiveness, Spain   Antoní Subirà Minister of Industry, Catalonia, Spain A Catalonian Perspective   Paulette Pommier DATAR, France A French Perspective   Soeren Hellener Danish Industry Agency A Danish Perspective Session 6 Issues for Mature Economies- Internet Portals for Clusters Moderator Elisabeth Waelbroeck-Rocha BIPE, France   Lluis Ramis Competitiveness, Spain Cluster Purchasing Portals Experience: Ceramic Clusters in Italy   Randy Russel 121 Micro, Mississippi Using Technology to Accelerate Clustering   Cam Carlton Cairns Tourism Cluster, Australia Tourism Cluster Sustainability   Antoní Gurgui Industry Catalonia, Spain Transforming Mature Railway Manufacturing Clusters into High-Tech TGV Clusters

Track#3 Industry 9:00AM-5:30PM   Name Organization Title of presentation Session 4 Marketing& Managing Multiple Clusters in a Region Moderator Alec Hansen Economic Competitiveness Group, San Francisco   Kathleen Perkins Arizona Optics Industry Association, Tucson Marketing Clusters Locally and Globally   Bob Hagen Southern Arizona Technology Council Southern Arizona Technology Council   Hervey Gibson Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland International Benchmarking-Photonics and Telecommunications Clusters Session 5 Building Cluster Agendas Moderator Polla Pratt Economic Transformation Group, San Francisco   Mike Darch Ottawa Center for Research and Innovation, Canada Cluster Competition: The Reality   William j. Kaufmann Conneticut Economic Ressource Center Conneticut's Multi-faceted Approach to Cluster Implementation   Ligia Chinchilla Guatemala The Business Climate and the Clusters in the Emerging Economies- The Central America Case Session 6 Linking Clusters Internationally Moderator Sally Fernandez Southern Arizona Industry and Aerospace Association, Tucson   Bob Breault Arizona Optics Industry Association Clustering Clusters   Emiliano Duch Competitiveness, Spain Creating Satellite Clusters in Eastern Europe and North Africa   Rod Brown Australian Project Developments Taking Gipsyland to the World: Connecting Regions Through the International Cluster Fraternity Session 7 Special Session: "Hot" Issues in Cluster Development An Interactive Hands-On Learning Experience   Polla Pratt Economic Transformation Group   Elisabeth Waelbroeck-Rocha BIPE   Group Interactions on Hot Topics

Wednesday, October 31, 2001

7:15AM- 9:00AM Greater Tucson Strategic Partnership for Economic Development (GTSPED)- Regular Monthly Meeting 9:30AM- 12:30PM TCI General Assembly       TCI 2002 Presentation       Conference Review Elisabeth Waelbroeck-Rocha     TCI Initiatives for 2001-2002 Ifor Ffowcs-Williams, Emiliano Duch, Bob Breault   Summary & Farewell Antoni Subirà