Silvano Bertini, Head of Economic Development Policies Unit at Emilia-Romagna Region, is the winner of the TCI Network 20th Anniversary Essay Competition that took place for the 20th TCI anniversary celebration.

TCI Network seeks to develop tighter bridges between the practitioners in our network and the academic community working on clusters. In this line, we regularly post listings of new academic articles on clusters and competitiveness on our website.

Many interesting presentations were given by the speakers during the 20th TCI Global Conference in Bogota, Colombia. The TCI conference material is a great working tool for cluster practitioners helping them to advance in their professional development. In order to make this material accessible to a wide public, TCI has been publishing for some years now material produced in the framework of our activities. We invite you to download the content and share it with your network!

20th TCI Global Conference
"The Future of Clusters Through Cross-Country and Cross-region Collaboration"
7-9 November 2017, Bogota, Colombia
www.tci2017.org · Online registration
Hashtag: #TCI2017

The Clusters3 project partners meet for the 5th Interregional Workshop in Riga.This time the meeting combines with INTER-COMP-INNO Conference. INTER-COMP-INNO is an international conference with aim to explore advantages of cooperation to foster COMPetitiveness, INNOvation and INTERnationalization of small and medium enterprises (SME’s)

The TCI Cluster Evaluation Working Group met in Oslo on 7-8 September (started at 12:00 on Day 1, concluded at 13:00 on Day 2), hosted by Innovation Norway ,with 18 participants that shared their experience on cluster programme evaluation.

During the Bogotá TCI 2017 Conference, you will be able to participate in one of cluster tours, which are a 1-day event where you will get an in-depth understanding of the clusters you visit. Discover the different cluster tours and register now.

TCI Network seeks to develop tighter bridges between the practitioners in our network and the academic community working on clusters. In this line, we regularly post listings of new academic articles on clusters and competitiveness on our website.

Last April 4th, ACCIÓ, the Competitiveness Agency of Catalonia Government, in charge of cluster policy, organized for the 10^th consecutive year, the International Intercluster Conference.

We invite you to present your latest work alongside other cluster practitioners in the parallel sessions and interactive workshops.

TCI 2017's first conference day is dedicated to the cluster tours in and around Bogota. Chose your tour among 8 different options. 

TCI Network seeks to develop tighter bridges between the practitioners in our network and the academic community working on clusters. In this line, we regularly post listings of new academic articles on clusters and competitiveness on our website.

Discover how to best use TCI's online tools, which we make available to our members and the cluster community worldwide. 10 – Expert database

Gathering and disseminating world-class, practice-based knowledge on clusters and competitiveness is one of our main areas of activities. That is why we are pleased to publish a series of cluster success stories.

This year’s TCI Global Conference will emphasize the importance of collaboration among countries and between regions in these areas, in order to further improve competitiveness.

In the framework of the Interreg project CLUSTERS3 Leveraging Cluster Policies for Successful Implementation of RIS3, TCI is facilitating peer reviews to the partner regions.

TCI's Cluster Evaluation Working Group takes stock of the progress achieved so far and plans its activities for 2017.

Gathering and disseminating world-class, practice-based knowledge on clusters and competitiveness is one of our main areas of activities. That is why we are pleased to publish a series of cluster success stories.

Anastasiia Konstantynova and James Wilson from TCI member Orkestra summarise the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of the CLUSTERS3 project regions´ clusters, cluster policies and smart specialization strategies.

TCI Network seeks to develop tighter bridges between the practitioners in our network and the academic community working on clusters. In this line, we regularly post listings of new academic articles on clusters and competitiveness on our website.