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Call for papers Cape Town

The host of the TCI Annual Global Conference 2008 in Cape Town has still open a call for proposals.

Proposed abstracts are invited to address, but not limited to, the core themes running through the TCI conference. These include:

• the role of cluster initiatives in fostering innovation and entrepreneurship
• skills programmes and exports development through clusters
• increasing university and industry partnerships via clusters
• the tools and institutional architecture behind clusters
• lessons from running and managing comprehensive cluster programmes
• how clusters can reduce commodity dependencies
• clusters and value chains

TCI Academic Summit

Proposed abstracts are invited for The Academic Summit that will take place prior to the conference on Tuesday, 28th October 2008. Scholars from around the world are invited to submit papers on the theme "Meeting the Challenges of Globalisation". The best papers will be submitted for publication in the journal Economic Development Quarterly.

For more information please visit section "submissions" the conference website: http://www.sbs.co.za/tci2008/