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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 14-16 April 2008
Two hundred participants from more than 30 countries will meet at the first Pan African Competitiveness Forum (PACF) in Addis Ababa. PACF will be launched as a new continent-wide competence and action center on innovation and cluster based competitiveness initiatives in Africa. PACF will support stakeholders from business, knowledge institutions and government to respond more effectively to the unique challenges and opportunities that Africa is facing in the global competition. The conference is organized by the African Union (AU), the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and TCI-The Competitiveness Institute
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This is the final report on the Baltic Metropolises Innovation Strategy Project (BaltMet Inno), a joint innovation project
of the capital cities in the Baltic Sea Region. The project aims at strengthening the role of cities as developers of innovation environments at local, regional, national and international levels.

This study contains the outline and analysis of several Cluster Initiatives in the field of Photonics and higlights the commonalities and contrasts between photonics clusters developing and being developed in the United States, Great Britain and Germany.

The OECD, Centre for Entrepreneurship, is offering a special advance offer for the forthcoming publication "Clusters, Innovation and Entrepreneurship". Scheduled release date: June 2008

German federal government recognizes Baden-Württemberg Connected e.V. cluster initiative as the competence network with best service.
The Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) in Berlin awarded first place in its nationwide Competence Network 2008 competition to the Baden-Württemberg: Connected e.V. (bwcon) business initiative.
MFG Baden-Württemberg has organized and managed the cluster initiative for over ten years within the framework of a service agreement.

This analysis of the lighting-fixture manufacturing cluster in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area has been undertaken by the Observatory for Industrial Prospecting of the Government of Catalonia and gives and overview on the competitive situation of the cluster.

Just recently the World Bank published a new report on cluster activities in Africa, showing the potential fo economic growth in the region through the right use of knowledge, human capital and technology.

TCI Board of Directors governs, administers and represents TCI. Since October 2008, the Board of Directors elected by the General Assembly is: Juan Manuel Esteban, President; Alberto Pezzi, Secretary; Elisabeth Waelbroeck-Rocha, Treasurer; and the Directors: Alonso Ramos Vaca, Arthur Bayhan, Christian Ketels, Kevin Murphy, Klaus Haasis, Nigel Gwynne-Evans, Carlos Alvarez and Barnabas Nawangwe.
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The Cluster Initiative Greenbook was presented at the TCI conference in Gothenburg 2003. It presents the outcome of a survey of more than 250 cluster initiatives across the world.

Pymes y articulación productiva. Resultados y lecciones a partir de experiencias en América Latina.
Documento que analiza distintos proyectos de articulación productiva en once países de Latinoamérica que buscan mejorar la competitividad de las pequeñas empresas mediante la asociatividad y distintas formas de integración productiva.