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6 2. Benefits for members What can a competitiveness agent find in TCI Network? Knowledge: • Competitiveness hot topics • Best practices • First-hand expertise Resources: • Cluster initiatives database • Members directory • Monthly newsletter Exclusive benefits for members: • Access to potential international cooperation partners • Opportunities to host conferences in cooperation with TCI • International visibility through our on-line members directory • Accreditation. Identify yourself as TCI member • Login to the members reserved area on our website • Beneficial rates for TCI services and activities What the network says: Getting value from TCI Nigel Gwynne-Evans Western Cape Government, South Africa Networking: • Regional initiatives • Special interest groups • Workshops “The TCI Network offers the opportunity for deep personal insights into both the theory and practical application of clustering, that one fails to get from a report. The individuals that participate in the network share freely of their experience and knowledge, with the added value that they span the academic, business and public-sector worlds. TCI has been a major factor behind the rapid expansion of clusters globally, and most importantly, the capability of the various practitioners that run the programmes in the public or private sectors. The insights gained through the TCI Network have been instrumental in the development of the cluster programme in a place called Cape Town at the bottom of Africa, which now has a highly successful cluster portfolio of more than 15 initiatives, with a combined staff of more than 80 and is approaching its first decade of formal existence.”
Kevin X. Murphy J.E. Austin Associates, USA “Having designed and implemented about 20 national cluster competitiveness initiatives in emerging economies and co-authored the World Bank manual on the same subject, I found that TCI provided the most intensive concentration of experts with similar interest. TCI also gave me and the many colleagues at J.E. Austin Associates or on our projects from Senegal to Tanzania; from Pakistan to Egypt, an exposure to lessons and approaches in the European Union and Oceania where we have not much worked. These perspectives provided useful cross-fertilization. Seeing regional development as showcased in the conference venues, from Sweden to Portland, has also been most interesting. TCI is a truly collegial, participative organization and I have come to value the professional and personal friendships that have developed from it.” Anna Korpi EduCluster Finland Ltd. “Our company and the surrounding network of education organisations work in the field of education and training, with a specific focus on exporting the world-renowned Finnish expertise and practices in education. Having been active in TCI network over several years, we have gained both valuable information and experiences in cluster-based development as well as useful information of potential markets and great contacts all over the world. I had the privilege to be one of the organisers of the TCI Global Conference 2009 in Jyväskylä, Finland, which also brought a new dimension into working with such a global network of professionals. But most of all, coming to a TCI event - you always feel at home, no matter on which side of the globe you are! :)” Werner Pamminger Clusterland Upper Austria “Innovation through cooperation and competence - these are the pillars on which Upper Austria’s innovation policy is built. An aim without borders - TCI Network provides a platform to establish contacts between key-players in the cluster business throughout the world. TCI enables us to act globally in our projects and forwards us to operate with the European Cluster Collaboration Platform beyond Europe. This mutual cooperation advances the internationalisation of cluster organisations and its members. With a high experienced advisory board and an excellent composition of experts in the board of directors, TCI is an international access point for cluster knowledge.” 7
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