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TCI Newsletter May 2005

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The Competitiveness Institute <fblunck@competitiveness.org>

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Word of the President
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Following TCI strategy to professionalize the leadership of TCI, the Executive Committee supported by the Advisory Board on the 11th of April decided to recruit a full time Executive Director. Beside developing and improving the annual conference, the Director will identify, develop and realize services that clearly adds value to the members of TCI such as promoting and mediating the upgrading of knowledge, research & evaluation, highly selected training/regional conferences. One important aspect is to raise funds and incomes significantly for TCI. The Executive Director will work closely to the chairman of the Executive Committee.

The contract is initially for two years, with every expectation that this will be extended conditional on performance. The contract will begin in November this year. The value adding services are expected to be developed and marketed in order to create incomes covering the person's salary. The salary is negotiable and is expected to be in the region of 50 000 to 70 000 Euro. An attractive bonus will be negotiated in addition to the salary.

The candidate will present a tentative business plan that will be assessed as part of the preparation for the employment decision.

The Executive Director will develop ideas that enhance TCI strength and strategy improvement, following the instructions from the Executive Committee, proposing to the Executive Committee and other committees, presenting projects, monitoring, following-up, promoting the build up of networks needed to develop TCI (for example national contact points), benchmarking and benchlearning.

Pending a formal agreement between TCI and the Foundation "Clusters and Competitiveness" the person might also resume the responsibilities of Executive Director of the Foundation (www.clustercompetitiveness.org). The Foundation provides a survey-based assessment tool for cluster initiatives, with the analysis work done by external academic partners. As an Executive Director, the person would be responsible for attracting new cluster initiatives as clients, interacting with the board of the Foundation, and further developing the offer of the Foundation in co-operation with its academic partners and the members of the foundation.

The Candidate will be selected from the following criteria:

* global marketing experience, knowledge of markets
* experiences from competitiveness cultures (deep understanding of the "ball game" leveraging networking and the context of globalisation beyond cluster development)
* experiences from organisations like TCI (membership of TCI is an advantage but not a must)
* executive/leader/organising/collaborative/communicative
* high motivation
* multilingual, excellent English

Application from both female and male applicants are very welcome - please send them to to our TCI headquarter fblunck @ competitiveness.org

Best regards,

Alec Hansen

Conference Autocluster Slovenia
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The Automative Cluster of Slovenia is organising its third Annual Convention and International Business Conference, 24 May, 2005.
More ť http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/537

Innovative tourism initiative unites three religions in Jerusalem
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A recent conference held in Jerusalem aimed to unite the region through its industries, especially clusters, in order to attract more businesses and tourists to the troubled region.
More ť http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/534

Conference Czechinvest May 30-31
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The South Moravian Innovation Center and CzechInvest are organizing a conference May 30-31 with the title "Building successful regions through dynamic clusters". This conference is under the auspices of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Martin Jahn and the Governor of the South Moravian Region Stanislav Juranek.
More ť http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/538

7th Annual Baltic Development Summit
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Stockholm is to host the 7th Annual Baltic Development Forum Summit from 16-18 October 2005. It is being organized by the City of Stockholm, the Swedish government and in cooperation with VINNOVA, the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems.
More ť http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/551

First World Forum on Regional Economic Development
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First World Forum on Regional Economic Development: More than 200 participants from all over the world gathered in Funchal on the Madeira Island the 20-22 March to discuss improvements in initiatives enhancing competitiveness, innovation and regional economic development.
More ť http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/525

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