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At the Annual Conference in Lyon 2006, cluster practitioners and other stakeholders from business, academia, government and development partners in 8 African countries took the first steps towards "The Pan-African Competitiveness Forum", a collaborative platform for exchange of experiences and mutual learning on cluster initiatives. With the mission to improve living standards and local competitiveness of regions across the world by further development of national and regional cluster initiatives, TCI is committed to work for the implementation of the following agenda during the period of 2007-09.

Initial list of Members of the Pan-African Competitiveness Forum:

Outline of the intervention made by Prof. Becattini in the framework of The Competitiveness Institute's 3rd Annual Conference in Glasgow, 5 October 2000

Klaus Haasis and the team from MFG in Stuttgart received us and a group of TCI members working in the field of evaluation in their facilities on February 15 and 16 to discuss the next steps for the greenbook on evaluation, which will be presented at the annual conference in Portland this year.

This report presents the first systematic mapping
and analysis of regional clusters across the EU-10 undertaken by Christian Ketels and Orjan Solvell with contributions from Emiliano Duch, Ines Sagrario, Torbjorn Folkesson and Goran Lindqvist and completed in June 2006.

On 7 December 2006 19 stakeholders representing business, knowledge institutions and government met at The Ministry of Trade, Industry, Private Sector and President's Special Initiative for the 3rd Stakeholder Seminar of partnerships4competitiveness.

Conference in Copenhagen on December 14 - starting point for PRO INNO Europe!
PRO INNO Europe is a new initiative of Directorate General Enterprise and Industry which aims to become the focal point for innovation policy analysis, learning and development in Europe, with the view to learning from the best and contributing to the development of new and better innovation policies in Europe.

Report from session H4: At the 9th Annual Conference of The Competitiveness Institute stakeholders involved in cluster-based competitiveness initiatives in Africa participated in a session to address the following questions:

Increasingly African stakeholders from business, academia and government emphasize the role of a competitive private sector as key in growth and poverty relief initiatives. This priority is largely supported by development partners from within and outside Africa.

As agreed at the conclusion of the TCI symposium on evaluation in Washington, DC on September 15th, this survey is intended to begin the process of developing best practices for measuring competitiveness and evaluating the effectiveness of competitiveness, cluster, and value-chain policy initiatives. Completed surveys will be posted on the website, www.competitiveness.org/evaluation, so that practitioners can benefit from each others' knowledge and experiences. Toward this end, please provide the most complete answers possible to the questions below.