On 23 April 2010 the International Conference “Boosting Regional Competitiveness through Cluster Initiatives” will take place in Fribourg/Switzerland.
The aim of the conference is to identify and explore the mechanisms of cluster initiatives. The conference, which will offer the opportunity of gathering the MOC Harvard Business School affiliates members, will be attended by academics, cluster managers, economic and investment promotion leaders, business CEOs as well as government representatives at the national level and at the regional level.
The keynote speakers at this event will be:
- Joseph Deiss, Former President of Switzerland and Former Minister of Economy
- Christian Ketels, Principal Associate, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School
- Örjan Sölvell, Director of the Center for Strategy and Competitiveness, Stockholm School of Economics
- Ambassador Eric Scheidegger, Deputy Director, Head of the Promotion Activities Directorate, State
Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)
The sessions will be dedicated to cluster initiatives and cluster management issues. Specialists coming from several European countries will present contributions (Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, etc.).
Please find the conference programme and further information in the invitation below and on the conference website:
Download the invitation here.
(2010-03-08)
Third Cluster Academy in Linz
Clusterland Upper Austria organizes the 3rd Cluster Academy in Linz from 20-22 April 2010. The 3-day workshop gives a detailed insight in our cluster management operations, covering areas of knowledge like initiation and support of cooperation projects, information management, qualification and event management, marketing&PR, internationalisation. A particular attention will be given this year to the financing mix, important to ensure a sound self-financing ratio of the cluster organisations, as well as to the evaluation and measuring tools of the cluster organisation performance. This year's academy will also include direct visits to cluster companies (Softwarepark Hagenberg, Rosenbauer International) to find out more about their motivation of being active in a cluster and what benefits they get from that.
More information can be found here.
(2010-02-22)
2010 TII Conference
The 2010 TII Conference “Innovation 3.0 – Challenges, Needs and Skills of the New Innovation Era“ will be held in Düsseldorf/Germany end of April. Organised by TII, Europe's premier independent association of technology transfer and innovation support professionals, and hosted by innowise and ZENIT (European Cluster Observatory consortium), the conference brings together future-minded practitioners and thought leaders from industry, clusters, technology transfer and innovation management as well as political stakeholders.
TII is looking for contributions for the conference; deadline for proposals is the 8th February 2010 (maximum 1 A4 page).
(Programme with the Call for Contributions and suggested themes can be found here.)
(2010-01-12)