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The Competitiveness Institute Newsletter, Feb 1, 2006
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Word of the President
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Our Barcelona TCI headquarter with the support from Emiliano Duch have offered to host a piloting TCI Symposium in April 27-28. The idea is to gather 25 members and non-members specifically concerned by a hot topic, to organise a systematic dialogue and to conclude with coordinated action commitments. The format is 25 hours, lunch to lunch, including dinner and late evening interaction. The theme for the April Barcelona Symposium is cluster competitiveness evaluation. Read more about it on the website. And if you have an idea on a hot topic for upcoming symposiums, please let me know!

This years' Annual Conference in Lyon will offer exchanges of best practices on governance of cluster competitiveness and the involvement of business on different societal levels and contexts. Together with the Lyon-RhУДne-Alpes team I would like to revive and further develop the appreciated action workshop design introduced in Gothenburg 2002. If you have ideas on setups for such workshops, please share them! Over 30 early birds have registered. Lyon is well on its way to beat TCI record in number of participants!

Next year is the 10th anniversary of TCI and the Annual Conference is to be hosted in the Americas. We are in early contacts with a handful of cities in the US and Canada. But isn't it time for Latin America to take the scene?! Any ideas - please, send an email or pick up the phone!

They were presented already to the TCI Assembly General in Hong Kong as "Observers" on the Board of Directors. Since then the Board has decided to assign responsibilities to nine Commissioners for a period of one year. Jan Sandred for Marketing, Media and Information; Frederic Miribel for France and Europe; Alec Hansen for Washington DC Forum; Andrea Erdmann for TCI Gender; Tracy Scott-Rimington for Oceania; Nigel Gwynne-Evans for the BRICS countries; Prasad Bhamre for Central Asia; Thomas Winther for Africa and David Nordfors for the Middle East and Innovation Journalism. You are all warmly welcome aboard. TCI needs you to develop regional engagement and contribute with your special knowledge. Read more about the missions and the Commissioners' backgrounds on the website under Structure and Organisation!

Beside the swap of President and the reinstallation of Elisabeth Waelbroeck-Rocha as Treasurer - welcome back, Elisabeth! -we have one more change in the Board of Directors. Alan Koziarski stepped down from his vice presidentship for Asia Pacific for professioinal reasons after having served for two years. Thank you for your important contributions and all the great fun, Koz! The new acting Vice President for Asia Pacific is Arthur Bayhan. Strictly, this decision, according to TCI Statutes has to be taken by the General Assembly, which unfortunately was not possible in Hong Kong. Read about Arthur and the Pakistani regional May conference in Jan Sandred's interview with him on this newsletter (you can also visit the Asia Pacific Section on the website). You are most welcome, Arthur!

Finally, note the new-opened Job Opportunities and Open Projects Forum on the website. Please, use this space, members free, non-members ? 50 or ? 200 including membership.

Lars Eklund
leklund @ competitivenes.org
phone: +46703618875

Oceania New Region Within TCI
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Clusters Asia-Pacific (CAP) Inc. have changed name and description to 'The Competitiveness Institute Oceania - The TCI chapter network for regional competitiveness in the Oceania region'.

More Л http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/737 Top of page

Antoni Subira Appointed To European Commission Expert Group
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Antoni Subira , Chairman of The Competitiveness Institute's Board of Advisors and Catalonia's former minister of industry, have been invited by European Commissioner for Science and Research Janez Potocnik to join a group that will identify priority actions for the EU to boost its investment in research.
More Л http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/733

Call for Paper Lyon 2006
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Together with our conference organizers we are launching a (preliminar) call for paper and speakers for the 9th Annual Conference of TCI. The conference will follow the structure of the previous ones like in Hong Kong or Gothenburg.
More Л http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/742

TCI Regional Conference on Competitiveness and Economic Growth in Asia, Islamabad
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Islamabad will host a TCI Regional Conference on Competitiveness and Economic Growth for Asia on May 15 - 16, 2006: Taking Stock of Pakistan's Global Competitiveness.

More Л http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/752

Arthur Bayhan - Asian countries are moving up in the list
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"Pakistan sits astride the old silk route and has long been a significant economic player in the region. The Conference on Competitiveness for Asia and Pacific in Islamabad in May 2006 will address and identify the competitiveness potential of the leading economies in this region. It will mark also Pakistan's determination to improve its competitiveness both regionally and globally," says Arthur Bayhan, Acting Vice President Asia-Pacific in TCI and working in Islamabad.
More Л http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/753

Annual Conference 2007 - Expression of Interest
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The Competitiveness Institute is issuing a "Call for Expression of Interest" for the organization of its 10th Annual Conference to be held in 2007. Proposals from within the Americas region will be particularly welcome although outstanding applications from other regions are invited.
More Л http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/213 Top of page

Kazakhstan in Tanzania
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Kazakhstan experts shared views on cluster development with Tanzania in an international workshop.

More Л http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/757

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