20th TCI Global Conference

The 20th TCI Global Conference will bring together cluster managers, economic development policymakers, opinion leaders, academics, consultants, development agency representatives, ministries, business people and multilateral agencies among others. The event will take place November 7th-9th, 2017 in Bogota.

The Conference aims at emphasizing the importance of deepening collaboration among countries and between regions in these areas, in order to further improve competitiveness. While progress has been made, there is still ample room for catalyzing this type of collaboration. Moreover, this collaboration gains further relevance in the current complex geopolitical context in which countries and regions are increasingly looking inward and not beyond their borders.

The 20th TCI Global Conference will allow interactions between cluster and competitiveness professionals of multiple countries and regions,looking to exchange experiences and build synergies, to lead to better:

1. Policies (Productive development policies – Modern industrial policy).
2. Implementation (Practice) of these agendas.
3. Business and joint activities between clusters from different regions and countries.

During the conference we will also:

• Evaluate the evolution experienced during the last 20 years in local competitiveness policies and cluster agendas and the results of their implementation, in order to carry out a prospective exercise to imagine what the coming 20 years might look like.
• Understand how competitiveness, innovation, and cluster development is implemented in different contexts around the world.
• Discuss the relevance for global development of local competitiveness agendas implemented in developing countries.
• Show the progress of Colombia and especially of Bogota in the implementation of its Productive Development Policy (Modern Industrial Policy) through cluster agendas, amid a promising scenario arising from the ending of a conflict that has affected the country for more than 50 years.

Detailed program and more information: http://www.tci2017.org/Program