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29 – 31 October 2008
Cape Town, South Africa

Competitiveness and Clusters in India
“Sessions on understanding the dancing elephant i.e. India at the 11th Annual Global Conference of The Competitiveness Institute”

This year at the 11th Annual Global Conference of The Competitiveness Institute the special focus is on understanding India, India’s competitiveness, issues and challenges for India, increasing productivity for competitiveness in India, innovation and economic development in India. The conference is organizing a special session on India with sessions for cluster practitioners and academics. The submissions are solicited for the academic conferennce, practitioners conference, poster presentation and cluster cases. Call for Papers | Academic Panel & Poster Session Proposed abstracts are invited to address, but not limited to, the core themes running through the track. These include –

1. The special economic zones in India
2. Internationalization of Indian Business
3. Indian Competitiveness and prospects for the future
4. Tension between Local and National Government within India
5. Agglomeration and deglomeration factors for cluster development in India
6. Competitiveness of Indian states and cities
7. Innovation within Indian enterprise
8. Innovation and Economic Development
9. Cross country studies especially with other BRIC nations

Abstracts of proposed papers should consist of a cover page and an abstract of the proposed paper. The cover page should contain: Title of the paper, Full name and title (Mr, Mrs, Dr, Professor etc), name of the organization / company, country, job title, a brief CV of not more than 200 words, contact email address and telephone number. The abstract should contain: Extended abstract detailing the main areas of the paper and presentation proposed and should be no longer than 2000 words. We specially encourage young researchers to submit an abstract. Practitioner Panel: Submit an abstract of 300 words along with the cover page. It should finish with a summary of four key learning points / key messages. CV’s and abstracts must be emailed to session chair.

Deadline dates

15 March 2008 Write to session chair on your intent
15 April 2008 Submission of abstracts
30 April 2008 Notification for selected papers
15 August 2008 Final Papers for Publishing
30 August 2008 Copy of visual presentation material Edited Volume on Proceedings

Selected papers would be published in edited volume for proceedings of the session. You would need to formally register for the conference to have your paper published within the edited volume. For more about registration you can look at

Best Paper Award

The best papers at the session would receive a special mention and an award would be announced at the conference

Conference Support The session organizers are trying to garner funds for partially supporting academics and doctoral students from developing countries and India in particular to travel for the conference. Opportunities for sponsors TCI 2008 and session on Indian Competitiveness provides an ideal opportunity for organizations to showcase their services and gain valuable exposre to the influential delegates and speakers. Contact the session chair for details on spsorship opportunities. Who should attend? Economic development officers, academics, policy makers, business people, consultants, investors, analysts, development agencies and anyone interested in competitiveness and economic & cluster development. ÂÜÀòÉç¹ÙÍøt TCI & Institute for Competitiveness TCI is a not for profit alliance of cluster practitioners. TCI’s mission is to improve living standards and the local competitiveness of regions throughout the world, by fostering cluster based development initiaitves. The membership base is more than 800 leading practitioners from all levels of Government, Academia and from the private sector, coming from more than 60 countries. The Institute for Competitiveness, India is working with TCI to work on the special session on India. Institute for Competitveness is a not for profit setup focusing on competitiveness of firms, industries and regions in India with special focus on economic development. The vision is to foster research in the area of competitiveness and clusters within the country. Session Chair Dr. Amit Kapoor Professor of Strategy and Industrial Economics Management Development Institute Gurgaon – 122 002, Haryana India.

e: amit@amitkapoor.com
m: +91 98104 02639

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To more know about Institute for Competitiveness contact Dr. Amit Kapoor.

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