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Keynotes & Plenary Addresses

The key note presentations and plenary addresses formed one of the highlights of the conference. The majority of these speeches can be found here on line.

Getting Back to the Roots: Clusters, Networks, and Networking
Stuart Rosenfeld (Regional Technology Strategies) on Getting Back to the Roots: Clusters, Networks, and Networking

Keynote: Innovative clusters - the role of local frameworks and supporting infrastructures
Lynn K. Mytelka's keynote at the opening of the conference on the role of local frameworks and supporting infrastructures (United Nations University).

Keynote dialogue: Reflections from science based innovation points of view
Hans Wigzell, President, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden and Per Olof Berg, President, Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship discuss the creation of the Stockholm science region: "Tales from the field"

Keynote: Competitiveness, innovative clusters and positive externalities
Michael Enright, Professor, University of Hong Kong on Competitiveness, innovative clusters and positive externalities

Roundtable Canada
Roundtable Sweden
Roundtable: Regional innovation systems and clusters in Canada and Sweden - similar objectives, different approaches
Participants: Michael Enright, Kevin Fitzgibbons, Lois Stevenson, Alf Chaiton, Magnus Lagnevik, Per Eriksson, Kaj Klarin.

Greenbook presentation
Örjan Sölvell, Göran Lindqvist and Christian Ketels introduce the much awaited Greenbook of cluster initiatives. This presentation elaborates on methods, findings and implications of the research.

White book and conference proceedings
Thomas Andersson, President of International Knowledge Economy and enterprise Development (IKED), gives an initial outline and description of the conference proceedings

Roundtable: Experiences of Multilateral Agencies from Supporting Innovative Clusters
Grant Morril, USAID
Alfred Watkins, World Bank
Participants: Ifor Ffowcs-Williams, Arthur Bayhan (VINNOVA), Frederic Richard (UNIDO), Grant Morrill (USAID), Tomas Kjellqvist (SIDA), Alfred Watkins (The World Bank).

2003 Conference summary
Elisabeth Waelbroeck-Rocha summarizes the TCI 2003 conference of Gothenburg.

Economic performance of regions
Keynote: Michael Porter's keynote address outlines the economic reasoning behind cluster strategy (Harvard Business School).

 

TCI general assembly

General assembly
Overview of TCI activities during the last year.

TCI knowledge services
Alberto Pezzi on a new TCI service.

Minutes general assembly
Minutes of this year's general assembly.

 

Ottawa 2004

Ottawa 2004
Michael Darch on next years conference in Ottawa, Canada.

 

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