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UK and Ireland
- Scotland’s Forestry Cluster, Foundation research and participation at First Annual Conference see project example
- Scottish Enterprise, Glasgow
- Enterprise Ireland, Dublin: ‘Cooperating to Compete’
- Irish Marine Institute, Dublin
- InterTrade Ireland, Newry: ‘Cluster development: What, Why & How’
- Centre for Competitiveness, Belfast: ‘Private Sector Driven Cluster Development’
- Welsh Development Agency, Cardiff
- Wales Woodland Forum, Newtown: ‘Clusters, and adding value to timber’
- South East England Development Agency, Guildford
- SEEDA, Cobham, Surrey: ‘Private Sector Driven Cluster Development’
- UK Regional Development Agencies Cluster Workshop, Milton Keynes: ‘Putting Clusters into Practice’
- Mindshop European Conference, Heathrow Airport: ‘Cluster Development: The Role of Consultants’
Scandinavia
Finland Initiating the Northern Clustering Alliance, Silverskär, Åland, Finland
- Competitiveness Forum, Helsinki: ‘The Role of National Agencies in Fostering Local Economic Development: A Global Perspective’
Tekes, Helsinki: ‘Cluster development: What, Why & How’
Iceland
- Growth Agreement launches, Akureyri and Isafjord, Iceland: ‘Clusters & Economic Development’
- IceTec, Reykjavik
Nordic Science Parks Conference, Reykjavik: ‘Linking Clusters, Technology Parks and Incubators’
Norway
- Norwegian Industrial and Regional Development Bank, Oslo
- Norway regional workshops: wood cluster (Hedmark); biotech (Tromsø); creative industries (Lillehammer)
- Innovation Norway, Arena Cluster Conference, Hamar ‘International Perspectives on Cluster Development’
Lillehammer Campus, Norway ‘Cluster Based Economic Development’
Sweden
VINNOVA, Stockholm - Nutek, Stockholm ‘Clustering: The Relevance, and the How’
- Piteå, Sweden economic development conference: ‘National Cluster Programmes: Commonalities, Differences’
The Competitiveness Institutes’ Annual Conference, Gothenburg: Conference President, and Pre-conference cluster development workshop
Continental Europe
OECD Ministerial Conference on SMEs, Bologna: ‘Clustering Policy: A Practitioner’s Perspective’
The Competitiveness Institutes’ Annual Conference, Varese, Italy - OECD/DATAR conference, Paris: ‘Clusters: a focus for building social capital’
- The Competitiveness Institutes’ Annual Conference, Barcelona, Spain
OECD, Trento, Italy, ‘Local Development and Governance in Central, East and South-East Europe’; Chairperson, forum on ‘Financing Local Development’.
Central and Eastern Europe
- OECD Ministerial Conference on SMEs, Bologna: The Competitiveness Institutes’ Annual Conference, Varese, Italy
UNIDO, Vienna: ‘Practicalities of Cluster Development’ CzechInvest, Prague: ‘Companies & Clusters: Why & How’ see project example - Regional Cluster Workshops: Moravia-Silesia, Čelákovice, South Moravia/Vysočina, Valtice, Liberec, Pilsen/South Bohemia, Prague and Bruno
- CERMA, Tbilisi, Georgia: ‘Competitiveness, Clusters & Networks’
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