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The Competitiveness Institute Newsletter, Jul 13, 2005
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Following TCI strategy to professionalize the leadership of TCI, the Executive
Committee supported by the Advisory Board 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 our TCI headquarter fblunck @ competitiveness.org . Deadline for
application is 15th of June.

Best regards,

Alec Hansen

Hong Kong improves its competitiveness ranking
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Hong Kong has jumped from fourth to second place in the IMD World
Competitiveness Yearbook, a leading league table of the world's most competitive
economies. The first place spot continues to be held by the United States.
More ť http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/586

Official launch of Amsterdam BioMed Cluster
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Amsterdam based biomedical companies, academic research institutions and medical
centres have begun working together under the name of the Amsterdam BioMed
Cluster. The cluster has been created in order to optimize access and effective
use of the most renowned features of the research institutes and medical centres
of Amsterdam.
More ť http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/587

British Columbian forest-research partnership launched
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A new partnership known as the Forest Research Opportunity B.C. (British
Columbia) was recently brought together on the 1st of June. It is a new
collaborative forest-research effort in order to harness the research and
innovation capabilities present in British Columbia and furthemore to improve
the competitiveness of the forest industry and
increase the economic and social value of Canada's forests which are vital parts
of Canada's economy and society.
More ť http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/588

Ainia Technology Centre joins CeFood.inc project
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Ainia Technology Centre, based in Valencia, Spain, has officially joined the
European project CeFood.inc, a European project which is estimated to run until
the end of 2006.
More ť http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/589

$1.7 million to promote tourism in Brazil's Estrada Real
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The Multilateral Investment Fund announced on the June, 1 their approval of a
$1.7 million grant that will benefit small tourism companies along the Estrada
Real in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The Multilateral Investment Fund is
an autonomous member of the IDB Group that promotes private sector growth in
Latin America and the Caribbean through grants and investments.

More ť http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/590

Italian textile clusters struggling to stay alive
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The northern town of Biella used to be the home to the finest and most well
known wool factories in Italy. Now many of the weaving and dyeing workshops have
closed under pressure from cheap foreign competitors.
More ť http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/591

Ontario and Chile governments strengthen mining ties
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The governments of Ontario and Chile's northern Antofagasta region have signed a
memorandum of understanding aimed at strengthening bilateral mining industry
cooperation.
More ť http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/592

Johannesburg initiative to boost ICT sector
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The city of Johannesburg, in partnership with the University of Witwatersrand,
recently launched the Johannesburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE).
More ť http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/593

Dubai silicon oasis moves step further to completion
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Juergen Knorr, who was chief executive officer of Siemens semiconductor division
has taken the position of CEO of Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO), a technology
initiative being created at an estimated overall cost of $1.3 billion in the
middle-eastern Emirate of Dubai.
More ť http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/595
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