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TCI Newsletter June 2004

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The Competitiveness Institute <bdoesborg[nospamplease]@competitiveness.org>

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# Constructing competitive advantage #
# TCI's annual Conference Ottawa, Canada #
# September 28 - October 1, 2004 #
# http://www.competitiveness.org/ottawa #
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A word from the president
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Dear Member,

We are constantly striving to keep the data of our members
updated. We therefore implemented a form on our website that
enables you to see and if necessary edit your details.

Our goal is to optimize networking among the members of the
Institute. Contact details will therefore be made available via
the web. If you want other TCI members having access to your
contact information, we will need your permission to publish
them.

I'd like you, as a member of TCI to visit the web to update your
information:
http://www.competitiveness.org/user/userwithaddress/edit/ Please
check the "TCI may reveal my data to other TCI members" option to
make sure other members can interact with you.

The list of members, who already gave their permission, can be
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Please make sure you login to the website before in both cases.

Thanks a lot,

Alec Hansen

Baltic Sea Bioregion Forum
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August 25th - 26th 2004 the third ScanBalt forum titled 'The
Competence Region' will take place in Turku, Finland. The
objectives of the forum are: networkinging, collaboration for
mutual benefit and funding of activities within biotechnology in
the ScanBalt Competence Region.
More ť http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/215

South Korea to develop 6 clusters across the country
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During a meeting held Thursday June, South Korean Commerce
Minister Lee Hee-beom announced that his government will invest
an annual 100 billion won to develop six industrial
next-generation clusters across the nation.
More ť http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/216

Ruhrpakt launches website
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Ruhrpakt the collaboration platform of industry, science
institutes, government and chambers of commerce in the German
Ruhr region has launched a new website: www.ruhrpakt.de
More ť http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/217

New web site inventories community college efforts that target
industry clusters
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A new web-based compendium developed by Regional Technology
Strategies, Inc. demonstrates the strong ties that exist between
community and technical colleges and specific industry clusters.
More ť http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/218

Funding provided to promote New Zealand's health IT cluster
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New Zealand's Economic Development Minister, Jim Anderton
recently announced new funding to assist the New Zealand Health
IT cluster to build up the capability of its companies in an
effort to significantly accelerate the growth of the sector.
More ť http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/219

Bush plans to recruit more biotech companies in Florida
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The governor of Florida, Jeb Bush announced the plan for an
expansion of the Scripps Research Institute to Palm Beach County
during the BIO 2004 convention in San Francisco. Bush's big goal
is to persuade biotech firms to take advantage of proximity to
Scripps by locating on or near its planned campus.
More ť http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/220

White book executive summary available
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The executive summary and the introductory chapter of the white
book with the results of last year's TCI conference in Gothenburg
is now available for download.
More ť http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/203

Write articles for the TCI web site
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write about cluster activities
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announce publications
You can send us a contribution but you may also enter it directly
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New members
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Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke, Economist, PhD, Partner of Mesopartner
ParG with fourteen years experience in research and consultancy
on cluster promotion and Local Economic Development in Europe and
Latin America. Main focus of current work: Development and
dissemination of the PACA method (Participatory Appraisal of
Competitive Advantage) and training of local consultants and
stakeholder. PACA is being used to launch local economic
development efforts all over the world. In Latin America PACA
exercises are launched in Brazil, Bolivia, Dominican Republic,
Ecuador, Nicaragua and Peru.

Jose Sanchez, Chamber of Commerce, Manizales in Colombia
(identification and promotion of Cluster since 2000 ). He is
working in the development of clusters like milk products, art
craftmanship, forest, tools and consumer electronics.

Paulo Rodriguez is Technical Director of the CONSEJO NACIONAL DE
COMPETITIVIDAD (CNC) in Quito - Ecuador. CNC implements the
"Agenda Ecuador Compite", an assembly of policies and actions
around different strategic lines. They built a network model of
joined competitiveness and poductivity ("ReCyProCo") to develop
and sustain the associative behavior in Ecuador.

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