After the end of the TCI-Conference: Time to catch up! You will find more information here soon!

I think I am not the only one who feels quiet exhausted after 4 days of cluster and innovation discussions. It was a great time but after the end of the TCI everybody needs a weekend to relax and get the thoughts and impressions settled. It is at least like that in my case. There is still a lot I will write about and interviews I have done which are not on this blog yet.

In the next days I will still write about

• the issue of language and terminology we use as practitioner

  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  s on the topcis of cluster development and innovation promotion and how it distracts us from the main important aspects

• The TCI Cafe we facilitated and its outcomes and insights
• the impressive thursday evening boat trip and its innovative way of using story telling to get peoplein a state of emotion
• a reflection on the main important TCI insights from my point of view
• My worries and recommendations for the next TCI Conference in Dubai. Just one comment on that: please use the innovative approaches of facilitation we experienced in this Conference and do not go back to the traditional style!

Additionally to these articles you will soon find some further interview recordings here with

• Dr. Göran Lindquist, the co-author of the Cluster Greenbook: in the interview Lindquist will reflect with me about the cluster development discussion since the publication of the Greenbook in 2003
• Madeline Smith (see article and speech recording below), TCI board member, about what she means when she talks about “breaking mental models” and following a more system thinking approach to cluster development
• Ifor Ffowcs-Williams about cluster facilitation and its difference to cluster management as well as the challenges we have to face in the future

I wish you a relaxing weekend! Come back to this side and let me know your comments!

P.S.: I do not know if you know: at the webside “Learning clusters” you can watch many live video recordings. Have a look under the link “Conference programme” and under the “main conference” according to the different days.

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