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TCI Network 20th Anniversary Essay Competition

TCI Network – the leading global network of organisations and practitioners with expertise in clusters and competitiveness – celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2017. As part of the 20th anniversary celebrations, the TCI Network Board of Directors invites submissions to an essay competition. The competition is open to all with an interest in clusters and competitiveness, and is targeted especially to young...Read more
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Canadian government launches a 950 million CAD superclusters initiative

During the presentation of the 2017 budget on 22 March 2017, Finance Minister Bill Morneau announced the setup of an ambitious Innovation and Skills Plan “to make Canada a world-leading centre for innovation”. [1] Overall, the government intends to invest about $950 million CAD over five years (€655.5 million [2] ) to develop superclusters in six key national industries ; the creation of Innovation Canada...Read more
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Call for Expression of Interest: EU-THAILAND CLUSTER COOPERATION AND MATCHMAKING EVENT

The European Cluster Collaboration Platform (ECCP) , in collaboration with the EU Gateway/Business Avenues Initiative and the Innovation and Technology Assistance Program (ITAP) under the Thailand National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) , will organise an EU - Thailand Cluster Cooperation and Matchmaking Event over a 3-day period starting on the 5th or 6th of September 2017 in Bangkok (...Read more
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COSMENERG first professional workshop

A cluster excellence training and knowledge sharing workshop took place on 10-11 January 2017 within the current international project named COSMENERG coordinated by the European Cluster Excellence Gold-Labelled ArchEnerg Cluster . The two-day training was facilitated by György Szügyi, organizational development expert of innovation, who shared his international cluster management experience and lectured...Read more
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  • Jun 14, 2017
  • alina danielescu

Business Seminar: Opportunities in Asia for SMEs

How to do business in the Asian markets? Join the EU-Asia Business Link and the Brussels Chamber of Commerce (BECI) on June 14th to get an overview on the golden rules and ask your questions to the representatives of the EU Business Support Organisations and European Chambers in Asia. Doing business in Asia can bring you many opportunities, but seems to be a big challenge. Each country has its own cultural...Read more
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Cluster Conference: Cluster policy and clusters’ cooperation of V4+4 countries

Organized by Ministry of Economic Development Poland 30 June 2017, Warsaw, Plac Trzech Krzyży 3/5, Poland We invite policy makers from V4+4 countries and clusters, entrepreneurs, associations and organizations related to cluster policy. It will be a great opportunity to discuss the differences of cluster policies in each country of V4+4, exchange knowledge, best practices on clustering policies and address...Read more
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IraSME's 20th call for proposals is open

IraSME is a network of ministries and funding agencies which are owners or managers of national and regional funding programmes for cooperative research projects between small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and in participation of research and technology organisations (RTOs). Against the background of growing competition in global markets, IraSME supports SMEs in their transnational innovation...Read more
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TCI 2017: Registration and call for proposals now open!

"The future of clusters through cross-country & cross-region collaboration" Bogota, Colombia, 7-9 November 2017 Register now and share your expertise in the parallel sessions and participatory workshops that will be held on the second and third conference day. Organizers are looking for experiences of what worked well and not so well worldwide and that dive deeper into the three overarching conference...Read more
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South Baltic Programme 2014-2020: Call for Proposals

The 4th call for proposals of the Interreg South Baltic Programme 2014-2020 is open between 22 May and 30 June 2017, 4 p.m. CET. The call is open only for the following specific objectives: Specific objective 2.2: “Increased use of green technologies in order to decrease the pollution discharges in the South Baltic area” Specific objective 3.1: “Improve the quality and environmental sustainability of...Read more
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TCI-Network Oceania - May 2017 Newsletter

Please find attached the May 2017 Newsletter for the TCI-Network's Oceania chapter. TCI-Network is the global practitioners network for competitiveness, clusters and innovation, with accesss to key information about clusters, competitiveness and innovation systems on a global level, latest trends in competitiveness strategies and clusterbased policies, best practices in cluster development and management,...Read more
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