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 initiatives.
The Competitiveness Institute offers information on clusters and competitive regions worldwide. We use multiple arenas in real life and on the net for exchange of ideas, knowledge and experiences on methodologies for economic growth. We work on clusters, innovation systems, promotion of entrepreneurship and regional branding.
The Higher Education Commission has been set up to facilitate the development of the universities of Pakistan to be world-class centres of education, research and development. Higher education plays a central role in the development of both human beings and modern societies as it enhances social, cultural and economic development, active citizenship and ethical values.
The mandate of the HEC encompasses all degree granting universities and institutions, public and private, including degree granting colleges and supports the attainment of quality education in these institutions by facilitating and co-ordinating self-assessment of academic programs and their external review by national and international experts. The HEC also supervises the planning, development and accreditation of public and private sector institutions of higher education.
Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) is the apex agricultural research organization at the national level. Its main objective is to strengthen Pakistan's agricultural research system, comprising the federal and provincial components.
In Pakistan, all the four provinces have established a large number of institutions to meet their specific needs for agricultural research. The activities of these institutions need to be coordinated at national level to make judicious use of resources in terms of men, money and materials. PARC is the only organization in the country with a mandate to coordinate agricultural research, being carried out in the provincial as well as federal institutions and the universities.
PARC conducts research, specially of a basic and long term nature in areas of national importance, which are either neglected or inadequately covered or are beyond the resources of the provincial institutions requiring sophisticated and costly equipment and facilities as well as highly qualified but scarce manpower and frequent interaction with international agricultural research institutions
The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging leaders in partnerships to shape global, regional and industry agendas.
Incorporated as a foundation in 1971, and based in Geneva, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum is impartial and not-for-profit; it is tied to no political, partisan or national interests. The Forum is under the supervision of the Swiss Federal Government.
VINNOVA, Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems, integrates research and development in technology, transport and working life. VINNOVA´s mission is to promote sustainable growth by financing RTD and developing effective innovation systems.
VINNOVA's mission is to promote sustainable growth by developing effective innovation systems and funding problem-oriented research.
VINNOVA has around 150 employees and a total budget of 1 GSEK.
The Faculty of Business and Economics was created through the amalgamation of two schools the School of Business with the School of Economics and Finance. Forming an alliance of excellence, the Faculty of Business and Economics takes an entrepreneurial approach to meeting the challenges of a rapidly changing economic and business environment by drawing together the strengths of the two Schools.
The Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI) is a Spanish public organisation, under the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, whose objective is to help Spanish companies to increase the technological profile of said companies.
CDTI is manned by 150 employees, three quarters of which is made up of engineers and graduates. Although the bulk of the infrastructure of CDTI is located in Madrid, the Centre has made a strategic network of offices and representatives abroad available to Spanish companies (Japan -SBTO-, Belgium -SOST and a Permanent Eureka Secretariat-, Brazil -FINEP-, Colombia -Colciencias-, Korea, Chile and Morocco) to give them support in their international technological activities.
Stanford faculty and students from many schools and departments collaborate on SCIL programs and projects, since complex learning issues are by their very nature multidisciplinary. The Stanford Learning Lab, established in 1997 and now merged with SCIL, has added its accomplished staff and formidable international research base to further the Center's objectives.
SCIL resides in Wallenberg Hall, a showcase facility with path-breaking technology, learning, and research spaces located in the front of the Quad on the Stanford campus. Wallenberg Hall was built with generous support from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, which has maintained a long and auspicious affiliation with Stanford University's educational mission.
The INNOVATION JOURNALISM Journal
INNOVATION JOURNALISM is a journal for developing the concept and community of Innovation Journalism.
What is Innovation Journalism?
Innovation Journalism covers technical, business, legal and political aspects of innovations and innovation systems. Good Innovation Journalism contributes to society by enhancing the public debate through better common knowledge and understanding of innovation issues.
