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Maestria en Economia y Desarrollo Industrial, orientación en Pymes
7a Edicion (2008-2009)
La maestria tiene por objetivo capacitar profesionales de excelencia en las areas de la economia y gestion del desarrollo competitivo.

Stockholm, Sweden. 22-23 January 2008
TCI Board of Directors was kindly invited to participate in the European Presidential Conference on Innovation and Clusters, organised by the Swedish and Slovenian governmet on 22-23 January 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden, under the Slovenian Presidency.

32 TCI Latin American members met in Portland-Oregon on October 10, as they were in the city to participate in the 10th Annual Conference of TCI.
El pasado 10 de Octubre, 32 socios latinoamericanos de TCI se reunieron en Portland-Oregon aprovechando su presencia en la conferencia anual del TCI.

Invited by the Chamber of Commerce of Medellin for Antioquia, the only organizational member of TCI in Latin America, TCI participated in the Forum "Progress and Results of the Competitiveness Strategy for Medellin City, Aburra Valley and Antioquia Region".
Invitado por la Camara de Comercio de Medellin para Antioquia, unico socio organizacional de TCI en Latinoamerica, TCI participa en el Foro "Avances y Resultados de la Estrategia de Competitividad para Medellin, Valle del Aburra y Antioquia".

Within the framework of cooperation of TCI as international consultative institution in the Euro-Latin American Forum, some members of TCI had the opportunity to participate in the 2007 Forum Conference that took place on October 24-26 in Turin (Italy), where more than 250 participants from 14 countries gathered to share ideas and promote regional development in their regions.
En el marco de colaboracion de TCI como institucion consultiva internacional del Forum Euro-Latinoamericano, representantes de TCI tuvieron la oportunidad de participar en la Conferencia 2007 del Forum que tuvo lugar del 24 al 26 de Octubre en Torino-Italia y donde mas de 250 participantes de 14 paises se reunieron para compartir ideas innovadoras y fomentar el desarrollo regional en sus regiones.

The SEZ organizes the European Innovation and Cluster Conference on Tuesday, 11th of December 2007 in Stuttgart, Germany. The conference aims at regional and European innovation and technology transfer decision makers and stakeholders.

Another conference comes to its end and again it was a great opportunity to meet old friends, get new connection and learn from each other. As always there will be positive and negative feedback from the participants, but sure we will remember this as a special conference.

Portland, Oregon has been selected as the host site for the 2007 TCI Global Conference. This year's conference is jointly hosted by the states of Oregon and Washington, and the City of Portland. The theme for 2007 is "Collaboration, Innovation, and Sustainability".

The Innovation Journalism Program at Stanford University will get more Finnish fellows for next five years. Helsingin Sanomat Foundation and Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, have agreed to pay the necessary fees, travel expenses and living costs for three Finnish Innovation journalism fellows per year for six months, starting February 2008. The total sum of money invested for five years is approximately 700.000 euros.

As part of the celebration of the Carl Linnaeus 300 year anniversary The Competitiveness Institute - TCI has been co-organizer of the Pan-African Innovation and Cluster Competitiveness Symposium in Cape Town, September 17-18. The aim was to enhance the efficiency of social economic activities financed by aid organizations, with business on commercial conditions. At the symposium representatives from 10 African countries as well as the African Union attended and discussed actions needed encourage new initiatives on cluster initiatives for poverty reduction and regional developments.