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Barcelona Symposium on Evaluation - Toolbox on Evaluation

Late April TCI organized a very successful two day symposium in Barcelona, gathering 25 actors from academia, government and development institutions and consultants to discuss cluster and competitiveness evaluation.

Masia Can Fatjó del Molí in Cerdanyola. Home of TCI.

Led by TCI president Lars Eklund, the participants learned about different methodologies and then discussed on objectives, obstacles and actions to take in the year following the Symposium.

You can download the presentations and the first outcomes.

Hervey Gibson - Evaluating Clusters: Time to come full circle?
Emiliano Duch - Monitoring Cluster Based Development Policies: the Cluster Competitiveness Report
Klaus Haasis - Reporting, Monitoring and Evaluation of Cluster Management Performance
Harald Furre - Baseline Study: Norwegian Centre of Expertise
Ines Sagrario - Evaluation: measures used by IADB

Documentation of the Symposium
Participants of the Symposium

The main outcome was the decision to work on a Toolbox of Cluster Competitiveness Evaluation. As a first step all participants will gather existing material and labeling on Evaluation to come to a common definition of the different tools and metholodogies.

For instance you can download here some material which has been developed during this phasis, based on the outcomes of the Barcelona Symposium.

Overview of Evaluation Methods (thanks here to Emily Wise Hansson and FORA!)

This shall then be presented and validated in a workshop during the annual conference in Lyon (see the Lyon program, Thursday, October 12) in order to have a Taxonomy of Tools and State of the Art Paper by end of the year.

TCI is now planning a second workshop in Washington DC (September 14/15) to continue the process. In order to allow good discussion and progress we will limit the participation number again to 40.

Within the next week we are going to send out invititations to all TCI members to register for this event. If you are interested or want to contribute to the toolbox, please contact Franziska Blunck at fblunck @ competitiveness.org .