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    PACF2011: 3rd Annual Conference of Pan African Competitiveness Forum

    1-4 February 2011 - The 3rd PACF Annual Conference PACF2011, under the theme "Innovative Clusters: Accelerating African Economic Development and Enhancing Competitiveness", is aimed at setting the African Continent onto the path of growth by bringing together all the actors in the PACF’s mission ...

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    Cluster Development in Egypt

    Business climate in Egypt is undergoing a remarkable transformation. Professor Mona El Baradei from Egyptian National Competitiveness Council summarizes the current situation of Egyptian cluster development and its promising implications for the national economy so far.

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    PACF: Cluster initiatives for Africa economic development and sustainability

    2nd Continental Conference of the Pan-African Competitiveness Forum 15-17 February 2010, Elmina, Ghana. The second meeting of the Pan African Competitiveness Forum was held in Elmina (Ghana) from 15 to 17 February. The three-day conference under the theme: "Cluster Initiatives for Africa Econo...

  • Climate change threatens Africa's competitiveness

    All research data confirm that Africa, particularly the Great Lakes Region, is the worst affected by climate change. All the symptoms are there for everybody to see: drying rivers, shrinking lakes, disappearing forests and wetlands and loss of fertility of agricultural lands. This situation is ag...

  • The Pan African Competitiveness Forum (PACF)

    The Pan African Competitiveness Forum (PACF) is a new continent-wide competence and action centre for innovation and cluster based competitiveness approaches to national and regional economic development in Africa.

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    Encouraging PACF meeting in Maputo

    Taking advantage of the "5th Eastern African Regional Conference on Innovation Systems and Innovative Clusters in Africa" celebrated in Maputo, Mozambique on August 25-27th and building on the momentum created in Addis Ababa - the 1st Pan African Competitiveness Forum (PACF) - the PACF Executive ...

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    A successful 1st Pan African Competitiveness Forum in Addis Ababa

    The Ist Pan African Competitiveness Forum (PACF) has successfully launched a new continent-wide competence and action centre for an innovation and cluster based competitiveness approach to national and regional economic development.

  • Lighting 1000 cluster fires by 2010

    Erica Elk, Director at the in South Africa has been one of the participants of the Pan African Competitiveness Forum in Addis Ababa in April and allows us to share her reflections on the Forum. This article was part of a monthly newsletter from the Western Cape Craft Initiative.

  • First Pan African Conference on Innovation and Cluster Competitiveness

    Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 14-16 April 2008 Two hundred participants from more than 30 countries will meet at the first Pan African Competitiveness Forum (PACF) in Addis Ababa. PACF will be launched as a new continent-wide competence and action center on innovation and cluster based competitiveness ...

  • Towards the Pan African Competitiveness Forum

    As part of the celebration of the Carl Linnaeus 300 year anniversary The Competitiveness Institute - TCI has been co-organizer of the Pan-African Innovation and Cluster Competitiveness Symposium in Cape Town, September 17-18. The aim was to enhance the efficiency of social economic activities fi...


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