The competitiveness support fund (CSF), a joint initiative of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Federal Ministry of Finance will lead a delegation to the annual global competitiveness conference 2007 of the Competitiveness Institute (TCI) from October 8 to 12 in Portland, Oregon, US.
The five-day conference, co-chaired by the Oregon Economic and Community Development Department and the Portland Development Commission, will include an academic summit, industry cluster tours, keynote speakers, and breakout sessions. Nearly 500 participants from more then 35 countries are expected at the conference that will also mark the TCI's 10th anniversary.
Comprising senior cluster experts from public as well as private sector and leading academic institutions in Pakistan, the Pakistani delegation will be led by Chief Executive Officer of the Competitiveness Support Fund (CSF) Arthur Bayhan, who is also Vice President for TCI's Asia Pacific Region. "Pakistan will showcase its achievements and strategy in terms of innovation and competitiveness," said Bayhan.
The Pakistani delegation will also visit the International Institute for Innovation Journalism (IIIJ) at Stanford University, where the delegation members will discuss opportunities and initiatives for improving the effectiveness of the programme for innovation and economic reporting in Pakistan. The delegation will debate on the notion of whether the innovation leads journalism or journalism leads innovation.
The CSF will chair a conference session on "Competitiveness in the Islamic world" that will include presentations from Arthur Bayhan and other cluster experts from around the world. The conference theme of "Collaboration, innovation and sustainability" will highlight Pakistan's recent initiatives on improving its global competitiveness rankings.
The TCI, based in Barcelona, Spain, is a non-governmental organisation and a global professional body with more then 700 members in 50 nations. As a worldwide network of the competitiveness experts and cluster practitioners, the TCI provides resources for all triple helix, including the government, private sector and academia with exchange of ideas, know-how, experiences and best practices for sustainable economic growth for a knowledge driven economy. The TCI was set up by Professor Michael Porter of Harvard University in 1997.
Every year the Competitiveness Institute holds its annual conference in outstanding locations around the globe in one of the continents. It held its eighth annual meeting in Asia/Honk Kong, in 2005, the ninth annual meeting was held in Europe/Lyon, France in 2006. The 10th TCI annual meeting for 2007 is scheduled to be held in USA/Portland, Oregon, which follows in with Cape Town in 2008 and followed in Leipzig, Germany in 2009.-PR
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