News: Moot on economic growth, innovation
Name of the Newspaper: The Dawn
Date of publication: Saturday, February 18, 2006
 

ISLAMABAD: The Competitiveness Institute (TCI), a Spain-based group of cluster practitioners and experts, will hold a two-day conference on "Innovation, competitiveness and economic growth in Asia and Pacific" in Pakistan on May 15-16.

The moot has been organized by the Competitiveness Support Fund (CSF) which is sponsored jointly by the USAID and Pakistan 's Ministry of Finance on 50:50 basis.

Official sources on Friday said that TCI president Lars Eklund would arrive in Islamabad on February 20 on a three-day visit to hold meetings with Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, government officials, representatives from private sector and the heads of the key universities to discuss the regional conference and the international best practices on innovation and competitiveness.