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MED-specific Scoreboard of Innovation

The Euro-Mediterranean Forum of Institutes of Economic Sciences (FEMISE) has created for THE NEXT SOCIETY a Scoreboard of innovation that includes particularities of the Mediterranean region while shedding light on the progress (or lack) achieved so far. Innovation scoreboards summarise different types of indicators that are related to the innovation process. The 78 selected innovation indicators in the...Read more
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Registering Top Level Domain names in China

Internet usage is truly booming in China, with more than 701 million ‘netizens’ (as of December 2016), China connects more people to the Internet than any other country. In fact, every fourth person on the Internet is from China. Facilitated by the increasing availability of broadband technology and the growing trend towards online shopping and purchasing, the Internet is an attractive business and...Read more
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The Social Economy in the Mediterranean

"The Social Economy in the Mediterranean" publication, coordinated by Juan Antonio Pedreño, president of the Spanish Business Confederation of the Social Economy (CEPES), brings together more than 500 pages, analysis and opinions of fifty personalities of the Government of Spain, the European Institutions and international organizations and experts in Social Economy. The work is a reflection of the...Read more
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The European Commission supports Member States in their transition to a climate-neutral economy

The European Commission has approved all requests made by 18 Member States for support with the preparation of their territorial just transition plans, which each Member State will have to draw up to get access to funding from the Just Transition Mechanism. The Just Transition Mechanism is part of the European Green Deal Investment Plan and will mobilise at least €100 billion of investments to provide...Read more
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Global Survey Results on sector-specific impact of COVID-19 and role of cluster managers in ramping-up

In April 2020, all TCI members managing a cluster organisation/business network were invited to participate in this Global Survey, a joint undertaking by TCI Network and VDI/VDE Innovation, aimed at better understanding the sector-specific impact of COVID-19 and the role of clusters during the crisis and at the end of the lock-down. The contribution of each of the 67 clusters representing 6,500 businesses...Read more
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Globalisation Goes Digital Through Clusters. Lessons learned from Denmark

Danish clusters are very active in the globalisation of SMEs. Before the Covid-19 crisis, Danish clusters were active in more than 60 countries supporting 1000s of SMEs going global every year. Although international activities have been cancelled or postponed, globalisation has not: it has gone digital. That is the conclusion of a recent online session with internationalisation specialists from 15 Danish...Read more
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Upcoming forums of TCI Oceania Conference 2020: Clustering For Positive Futures

If you missed the first instalment of the three-part TCI Oceania Conference , receive a complimentary recording of it when you register for the remaining two sessions. Whether you are a cluster practitioner, cluster member, SME, or simply looking to learn more - join the remaining two online forums: Thursday 14 May, 9am AEST (1am CEST) - SURVIVE: 'Leadership in times of crisis and what it means for cluster...Read more
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EU-Japan region & cluster cooperation - MINERVA Report

The report EU-Japan region & cluster cooperation authored by Réka Lóczi , a result of a research conducted under the Minerva Fellowship scheme at the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation , aims at providing an analysis of the practices, successes and challenges of existing EU-Japan region & cluster cooperation (region-to-region, cluster-to-cluster and region-to-cluster cooperation),...Read more
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AfriAlliance: Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on "Social innovation in water and climate change in Africa"

The increasing manifestations of Climate Change on the African continent present many challenges for African stakeholders. This requires novel and holistic approaches in order to deal with the impacts on water resources and society. One such approach is social innovation - tackling societal, water-related challenges arising from Climate Change by combining the technological & non-technological...Read more
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European Cluster Collaboration Platform Webinar: “The Covid-19 industrial cluster response: solutions for dealing with ecosystem supply chain disruptions”

On 28 April 2020 the ECCP hosted a webinar on the COVID-19 industrial cluster response. The webinar was run by the European Commission and showcased the work and achievements of the European Cluster Alliance (ECA) in addressing ecosystem supply chain disruptions to over 200 participants. The webinar, introduced by Dr Ulla Engelmann, Head of Unit in charge of industrial clusters within the Directorate-...Read more
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