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TCI Learning Clusters
12th TCI Annual Global Conference
Jyväskylä Finland, October 12-16th 2009

Competitiveness and Clusters in Asia

This year at the 12th Annual Global Conference of The Competitiveness Institute the special focus is on understanding Asia, Asia’s competitiveness, Issues and challenges the countries face; increasing productivity for competitiveness during slowdown; innovation and economic development. The conference is organizing a special session on Asia with sessions for cluster practitioners and academics. The submissions are solicited for the academic conferennce, practitioners conference, poster presentation and cluster cases. The papers from several disciplines both theoretical and empirical are highly encouraged.

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
2. Internationalization of Business
3. Country Competitiveness and prospects for the future
4. Tension between Local and National Government
5. Agglomeration and deglomeration factors for cluster development
6. Competitiveness of regions
7. Innovation within Asian enterprise
8. Innovation and Economic Development
9. Cross country studies especially with other Asian 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 1000 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

26 June 2009 Submission of abstracts
3 July 2009 Notification for selected abstracts
7 August 2009 Final Papers for Publishing
11 September Copy of visual presentation material

Proceedings

Selected papers would be published in proceedings of the session. You would need to formally register for the conference to have your paper published within the session proceedings. 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 and Learning Clusters 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. To know more about the Institute you could write to Dr. Amit Kapoor.

Session Chair

Dr. Amit Kapoor
Professor of Strategy and Industrial Economics
Management Development Institute
Gurgaon – 122 002, Haryana
India. e: amit@amitkapoor.com; amit.kapoor@competitiveness.in
m: +91 98104 02639

For more information about TCI 2008 visit:

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