Publications

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

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.

The long awaited Whitebook is available for download! Based on the results of last year's TCI conference in Gothenburg, this Whitebook gives a kind of "state of the art" of cluster policies. Written by Dr. Thomas Andersson and his international team from IKED, it also played an important role in our Annual Conference in Ottawa. Each participant received a free hard copy of the Whitebook and some issues were discussed in different breakout sessions.

As one of a series of publications produced under the Innovation America initiative, the new National Governor's Association's Innovation America guide by Dr. Stuart Rosenfeld (president of Regional Technology Strategies, Inc.) examines what cluster strategies work best in a changing and challenging global economy.

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.

Aho group report

The European Commission - faced with the increasing challenges of globalization - set up in late 2005 a group of four high-level experts, chaired by former Prime Minister of Finland, Esko Aho, to assess the situation and make proposals to boost Europe's research and innovation performance.

The World Bank and the DFID are organizing a workshop on Public-Private Dialogue in Paris, February 1-2, 2006 in The World Bank Paris Conference Center.

Benjamin Herzberg and Andrew Wright recently published a report for the World Bank on public-private dialogue. It is titled "Competitiveness Partnerships: Building and Maintaining Public-Private Dialogue to Improve the Investment Climate - A Resource Drawn from the Review of 40 Countries' Experiences".

Michael Enright, the host of our annual conference in Hong Kong, has recently published a new book on regional development in China together with Edith Scott and Ka-Mun Chang.