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Cluster 2006 - TCI´s 9th global conference a huge success

In front of the Chamber of Commerce, Lyon

A very successful conference in Lyon is over. During one week over 400 cluster practitioners met in Lyon to discuss on Governance, Business Involvement, Evaluation methodologies and many other hot topics.

The participants could chose among different cluster tours on Monday and Tuesday and get some insights on the local cluster work.

Frederic Miribel

Tuesday was then designed as an Open Day to bring the participants together with people from the region. During the evening the Intercluster Forum allow to network with over 800 people in the Cites des Congres in Lyon.

The main conference took then place in the beautiful facilities of the Chamber of Commerce - intense exchanges in the corridors and breakout sessions, insights into the Automotive Sector, Africa, Innovation Journalism, user-driveninnovation and many more....
(for the program have a look at www.clusters2006.com) or follow the links at the bottom of this page.

TCI President Lars Eklund

Jan Sandred, our commissioner for Media, PR and Marketing, gave insights to the conference on the conference blog. Have a look at http://clusters2006.blogspot.com! You can also find a selection of pictures he took during the conference on flickr.

The presentations held in the conference are available for download for the members of TCI after login. For the plenary presentations please follow
this link. For the presentations held in the breakout sessions, please chose among the links on the bottom of this page.

Plenary Presentations:

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 11 - 09:00am - 10:30am "Opening the stage of global competitiveness: an update on competitiveness agendas"

Chair: Lars Eklund, President of The Competitiveness Institute (TCI)
Speakers:

Mike Enright opens the conference

Michael Enright, University of Hong-Kong (China)
Pierre Vigier and Nikos Pantalos, EU Commission (Europe)
Prof. Örjan Sölvell, Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) (Sweden), Senior Institute Associate at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC), Harvard Business School (USA)
Antoni Subira, Former Minister for Industry in Catalonia 1989-2003 (Spain), Professor IESE, Barcelona, President of TCI Board of Advisor
Laurent Trupin, General Manager of the Invest in France Agency (IFA)

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 11, 2:00pm - 3:30pm: "Governance: The cornerstone of cluster initiatives"

Mike Best

Chair: Ifor Ffowcs-Williams
Cluster Navigators (New Zealand)
Speakers:
Michael Best, University of Massachusetts at Lowell (USA), Judge Business School, Cambridge University (UK)
Arne Eriksson, Arne Eriksson Konsult, Formerly in the Ministry of Industry (Sweden)
Christian Ketels, Harvard Business School (USA)
Emiliano Duch, CEO of The Cluster Competitiveness Group (Spain)

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 11 05:30 pm - 07:00 pm "Governance: Experiences from around the world"

Chair: Frédéric Richard, Former UNIDO Director of Strategic Research and Economics (Austria)
Speakers:
Toshihirro Kodama, Kyoto University (Japan)
François-Xavier Level, Advisor to the Government (France)
Burton Mwamila, Professor, University of Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania)
Luboš Lukasík, CzechInvest (Czech Republic)

Thursday, Oct. 12 09:00 am - 10:30 am Business involvement - What benefits for companies to participate in cluster initiatives?

Chair: Michael Enright, University of Hong-Kong (China)
Speakers:
Elisabeth Waelbroeck-Rocha, Director of BIPE (France)
Yves Bamberger, Director of R&D at EDF (France)
Véronique Adnet, Secretary General of Renault Trucks (France)
Bob Breault, Breault Research (US)
Piero Formica, Professor of Economics, Jonkoping University (Sweden)

Thursday, Oct. 12 02:00 pm - 03:30 pm The role of the media and the press in cluster initiatives: a necessary actor! Innovation Journalism or how to communicate on innovation?

Subira and Nordfors - Innovation Journalism

Chair: Antoni Subira
TCI President of the Board of Advisors, Prof. IESE (Catalonia)
Speakers:
David Nordfors, SCIL, Stanford University (USA)
Per Eriksson, Director General of Vinnova (Sweden)
Marta Svetina , DG TIA, Slovenian Innovation Agency (Slovenia)
Arthur Bayhan, CSF (Pakistan)
Jan Sandred, Office of the Director General at VINNOVA (Sweden)
Dr. Seppo Sisättö, European Journalism Center in Maastricht
Willy Rütten, Helsinki University (Finland)

Friday, Oct. 13 09:00 am - 09:50 am The Greenbook II

Speaker: Christian Ketels

Friday, Oct. 13 10:40 am - 12:20 am Where do we go from now?

Chair: Jean-Louis Gagnaire, Vice-President of Rhône-Alpes (France)

Tea Petrin

Speakers:
Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Préfet de la Région Rhône-Alpes - Préfet du rhône (France)
Omar Ayub Khan,Minister of Finance (Pakistan)
Jean-Claude Marcourt, Minister of Economy of Wallonia region (Belgium)
Tea Petrin, Former Minister of Economic Affairs (Slovenia)
Ambassador of Slovenia in The Netherlands


Presentations in the Breakoutsessions:

Stream A: Governance
Stream B: Business Involvement
Stream C: Evaluation
Stream D: Innovation Management
Stream E: Networks of Networks
Stream F: Challenges for Competitiveness
Stream G: Actors of Competitiveness
Stream H: Challenges for traditional economies