Europe

10-11 July 2008, University of Deusto, San Sebastian, Spain
Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness and the Department of Trade, Industry and Tourism of the Basque Government, in collaboration with TCI (The Competitiveness Institute) brought together nearly 30 European government experts on competitiveness at the San Sebastian campus of Deusto University on 10th and 11th of July 2008.

Clusterland OÖ GmbH
Linz, Austria. 17-19 June, 2008
How to build up and manage successfully cluster-initiatives – based on 10 years experience in Upper Austria.

2nd International Conference on Clusters
Opatija (Croatia), 28 April 2008
The Ministry of the Economy, Labour and Entrepreneurship, under the auspices of the Government of the Republic of Croatia, organizes the Second International Conference on Clusters.
The aim of the conference is to exchange experiences on cluster development policies, networking of the already existing and establishment of new clusters in the area of South Eastern Europe.

4th Competitiveness Forum
9-10 June, Tornio-Haparanda, Finland
TCI-The Competitiveness Institute, Kemi-Tornio University and Prodemic Consulting Group collaborated in the 4th Competitiveness Forum with focus on Creative Clusters and Crossborder Collaborations.

Warsaw-Poland, 22-23 April 2008
INNO-LEARNING PLATFORM - A targeted action to support trans-national policy learning and policy cooperation on Innovation.
The event is organised by the European Commission, DG ENTR, under the framework of the INNO-Learning Platform initiative, in cooperation with the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development (PAED), the Mazowieckie Region and the Ministry of Economy of Poland.

Debrecen, Hungary. 24 April 2008
The main aim of the conference is to promote the advantages of intercompany cooperation within the industry. Organized by the IT Cluster of Észak-alföldi Region, the conference is entirely practical oriented, supplying the participants with real life examples of successful and unsuccessful cluster and partner initiatives.

A symposium on innovation policy
Brussels, 15-16 April 2008

Barcelona, 7 February 2008
The Urban Cluster Day in Barcelona is coming to its second edition. The very successful first conference in 2007 is promising an interesting repetition this year. 22@ is a close partner of TCI in Barcelona.

There is a call for proposal ongoing about evaluating the German "Spitzencluster Wettbewerb" organized by the BMBF - the selection of up to 15 clusters among applying clusters in Germany to receive for financial support of up to €600m. The first round of candidates have just entered the final selection process.

This international study grew from the TCI 2007 Annual Conference in Portland-USA, and shows the benefit of cluster practitioners getting together, agreeing to work together and moving knowledge of clusters forward.